MEKNES, Morocco (AFP) — Dozens of Jews traveled to the Moroccan city of Meknes this week for the first pilgrimage of its kind since the 1960s, after the Muslim kingdom restored the city’s Jewish ...
(JTA) — Authorities in Morocco completed a renovation of the historic Jewish cemetery in the city of Meknes, part of a broader overhaul of Jewish heritage sites that coincides with the country’s ...
Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital under Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), the founder of the Alawite dynasty. The sultan turned it into a ...
Meknes is ordinary Morocco, but you wouldn't want to miss it.iStock We visit places because they're famous. Or because they have a famous attraction, or restaurants lauded on social media, or simply ...
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Meknes on Saturday evening, according to Morocco’s National Institute of Geophysics. The tremor was recorded at 6:33 p.m. local time and was centered in the ...
The World Agriculture Forum (WAF) launched its Morocco Country Council, “World Agriculture Forum Morocco,” during SIAM ...
MOROCCO The Malady of MeknesCripples, many of them children, stretched helpless legs last week in the bazaars of Meknes (pop. 200,000). In the city’s 4O0-bed hospital, some 650 more Moroccans, with ...