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Zakaria Ramhani

In 2006, Ramhani became the youngest Moroccan citizen to be awarded a residency from the French government at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.


1934 Moroccan Grand Prix

The 1934 Moroccan Grand Prix (also known as the 1934 Anfa Grand Prix or the 1934 Casablanca Grand Prix) was a Grand Prix that was held on 20 May 1934 at the street circuit in Anfa, a suburb of Casablanca, Morocco.

2010 African Swimming Championships

The event was hosted by the Royal Moroccan Swimming Federation (Fédération Royale Marocaine de Natation).

2d Antisubmarine Squadron

Deployed again to Port Lyautey in French Morocco in March 1943 to shore up scanty Allied antisubmarine defenses in the Atlantic approaches to the Straits of Gibraltar as part of 2037th Antisubmarine Wing (Provisional) under the operational control of the United States Navy (USN) Fleet Air Wing 15 (FAW-15), which answered to the commander of the Moroccan Sea Frontier.

Abderrazak Khairi

Abderrazak Khairi (born 20 November 1962), is a Moroccan former football player and current coach of Sohar Club in the Omani League.

Abu al-Hasan Ali ibn Othman

In a campaign in early 1347, Abu al-Hassan's Moroccan army swept through Ifriqiya and entered Tunis in September, 1347.

Abuhatzeira

Yisrael Abuhatzeira (1890-1984), Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi known as the "Baba Sali"

African Romance

The 12th century Moroccan geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi who, describing Gafsa in southern Tunisia, noted that "its inhabitants are Berberised, and most of them speak the African Latin tongue (al-latini al-afriqi)."

African Union

Moroccan delegates also participate at important AU functions, and negotiations continue to try to resolve the conflict with the Polisario Front in Tindouf, Algeria and the parts of Western Sahara.

Allal al-Fassi

He founded the nationalist Istiqlal party which was a driving force in the Moroccan struggle for independence from French colonial rule.

Arabs in the Netherlands

In 2001, two Arab immigrants to the Netherlands, Egyptian-born Farouk Ibrahim (58) and Moroccan-born Mustafa Aboustib, set up the Arab Democratic Party (Arabische Democratische Partij), complaining that Arabs were not well represented in mainstream political parties except as "pretty Arab faces".

Ayoub Sørensen

Ayoub Ahmani Sørensen (born 12 April 1988 in Casablanca) is a Danish-Moroccan professional football striker, who currently plays for the SønderjyskE.

Betz, Oise

The Moroccan King Mohammed VI owns a 71ha palace there, where he is said to employ much of the commune's population.

Black Guard

The Black Guard name was changed to Moroccan Royal Guard after Morocco gained its independence in 1956 but this unit is not composed of descendants of the black slave since its members are selected from elite units within the Moroccan Army.

Cédric El-Idrissi

Cédric El-Idrissi (born 24 March 1977) is a Swiss athlete who specializes in the 400 metres hurdles of Moroccan descent.

Chami

Hicham Chami (born 1977), Moroccan musician specializing in the qanun

Claes Gerritszoon Compaen

Compaen later turned up in the Mediterranean, selling captured ships and their cargo at the Moroccan ports of Saffi, Mogador and Salé.

Dar El Menia

Dar El Menia is a Riad or Dar, a traditional Moroccan house built around a central courtyard and lies in the heart of Fez (Fes) Medina, former imperial capital of Morocco and the world’s largest medina.

Death of Richard Nieuwenhuizen

Dutch politician Geert Wilders tweeted that Moroccans were responsible for the violence in youth football, and the large number of immigrants in Nieuw-West was a factor in discussions after the attack on Nieuwenhuizen.

Economy of Tangier

Tangiers economy is the third biggest of all Moroccan cities, after the economic capital Casablanca and the political capital Rabat.

El Marsa

El Marsa, Western Sahara, a port city of Western Sahara under Moroccan control

Estrella María Benzo Blas

With 21 years old, Estrella debuted in mid-2006 with her single "Qué Me Puede Quedar", in collaboration with the renowned Moroccan violinist Faiçal Kourrisc.

Famila

A typical Moroccan family organizes its life around television programs in order to avoid any kind of affective interaction among its members.

FC Chabab

The team was founded in 1983 and, after spending several years in the lower ranks of Dutch amateur football, was promoted to Topklasse in 2012 as playoff winners, under the guidance of former Moroccan international Alami Ahannach.

Guerrilla Zoo

Interzone was influenced by the strange and seedy city of Interzone described by Burroughs in his books, inspired by his time living in the north Moroccan city of Tangier during the late 1950s.

In de mix

It is an adaptation of original series of shows done on Dutch television station TROS and hosted by fellow Moroccan-Dutch artist Ali B and entitled Ali B op volle toeren.

Iwellemmedan people

Engaged in long struggle with the inheritors of the 15th century CE Moroccan conquest of the Songhai Empire, the Iwellemmedan Kel Ataram clans eventually imposed indirect rule over Timbuktu, along with all of the Niger River valley from the Niger inland delta to what ito the town of Say, Niger.

Kaltoum Bouaasayriya

Kaltoum Bouaasayriya (born 23 August 1982 in Assa-Zag Province) is a Moroccan athlete.

Laya Raki

In it Laya Raki starred as Halima, a Moroccan dancer and bartender, who is the partner of the title character, the bar owner and smuggler Richard Crane, played by Patrick Allen.

LGBT rights in the Netherlands

Recent crime rates involving LGBT citizens have risen and have recently been cited as being motivated by increasing Islamic minorities as well as immigrants of Moroccan descent.

Maati Kabbal

He is a frequent contributor to French and Moroccan television programs and newspapers like Libération and Le Monde dipomatique.

Marzia Tedeschi

The Movie is based on the autobiographical Novel "El Khoubz el Hafi" of the Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri.

Mehdi Khalis

Mehdi Khalis (born 6 January 1989) is a professional football player who currently plays for Moroccan side FUS de Rabat.

Miguel Pisco

When Pisco left Estoril-Praia, the team included footballers such as Portuguese internationals Hélder Cristóvão and Paulinho, Bulgarian international Stoycho Mladenov, Moroccan international Aziz Bouderbala and Bolivian international Erwin Sanchez.

Minhag Morocco

During Havdalah all sorts of fragrant herbs and spices are used in the Moroccan community, including fresh spearmint leaves, rose water, cloves and myrtle branches.

Mitchell Burgzorg

On 25 January 2012, Priester took part in the popular Dutch television series Ali B op volle toeren hosted by Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B.

Mohamed Ismail Ahmed Ismail

Mohamed Ismail Ahmed Ismail known as Ismail Ahmed (his Patronymic) (Arabic: محمد اسماعيل احمد اسماعيل; born 1983) is an Emarati-Moroccan footballer who plays in the UAE League for Al Ain Club as Defender.

Monir Amerkhous

Monir Amerkhous is a French/Moroccan citizen mainly known for holding the Moroccan national record in Rubik's Cube.

Moroccan Arabic

In the troubled and autocratic Morocco of the 70s (known as the years of lead), the legendary Nass El Ghiwane band wrote beautiful and allusive lyrics in Moroccan Arabic which were very appealing to the youth even in other Maghreb countries.

Muhib ud-Din

Muhibb al-Din Abu Abdallah Mohammed ibn Umar ibn Rushayd al-Fihri al-Sabti, or briefly Mohammed ibn Rushayd (1259–1321), Moroccan judge, writer and scholar of Hadith

Muslim Executive of Belgium

Mohamed Boulif (male French-speaking dual Belgian-Moroccan citizen; economist in a Luxemburg bank) 2003-2005 (ousted by the Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx, who provoked new elections before the Assembly's term)

Nessbeal

Nabil Sahli better known by his stage name Nessbeal (born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on 16 August 1978) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin.

Nabil Sahli was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the western suburbs of Paris, to a Moroccan family.

Northern Songhay languages

The sedentary varieties include Sawaq (Tasawaq) in northern Niger (with two dialects, Ingelsi in In-Gall and the extinct Emghedeshie of Agadez) and Korandje far to the north, 150 km east of the Algerian–Moroccan border at Tabelbala.

Senhaja language

The language of the Senhaja de Srair ('Senhaja of Srair'), also Senhaya or Zenaga, is a Northern Berber language spoken in the southern part of the Moroccan Rif (between Taounate and Targuist).

Sidi Slimane, Morocco

Sidi Slimane is home to a Moroccan Air Force base, Sidi Slimane Air Base.

Taghaza

In 1352 the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta arrived in Taghaza after a 25 day journey from Sijilmasa on his way across the Sahara to Oualata to visit the Mali Empire.

Walter Burton Harris

Harris was a fluent speaker of French, Spanish and Moroccan Arabic, and his physical features were such that he could pass for a native Moroccan.

He soon won the respect of the Moroccans for his exploits and made some unlikely friends, such as the mountain chieftain Raisuni who repeatedly fought the Moroccan government (and later the Spanish) during the first 25 years of the 20th century.

Yassine El Ghanassy

Yassine El Ghanassy (born 12 July 1990) is a Belgian-Moroccan footballer who plays as a forward for the UAE League side Al Ain on loan from Gent.


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