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Women’s Photography in Casablanca
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Suzy Shuraym
“During the first two weeks of April, the city of Casablanca, Morocco, will become a haven for public art. The Billboard Festival, an art festival of epic proportions, will take over 63 billboards throughout the city to showcase photography produced by 63 female contemporary Moroccan and Scandinavian artists.” Check out the exhibit here: These Women’s…
Morocco’s Hassan II Mosque
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Suzy Shuraym
AFKTravel has a photo essay about the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, Morocco. Said to be the seventh largest mosque in the world, it cost some $12 million and was completed in 1993. The photo shows the top of the 60-story minaret, where there’s a laser light shining the way toward Mecca. (Photo used with…
Egypt’s Turn to be Tone Deaf
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Suzy Shuraym
Earlier this week, the Administrative Court of Alexandria, Egypt, banned a festival held each year for decades in honor of a Moroccan rabbi. According to the report in WorldPost, “local residents…objected to the mingling of men and women and the consumption of alcohol at the festival, and claimed that strict security measures applied during the…
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