By Marvine Howe
ISBN-10: 0195169638
ISBN-13: 9780195169638
ISBN-10: 1423756649
ISBN-13: 9781423756644
In Morocco, Marvine Howe, a former correspondent for the recent York occasions, offers an incisive and accomplished evaluation of the Moroccan nation and its humans, earlier and current. She presents a vibrant and frank portrait of overdue King Hassan, whom she knew in my view and credit with laying the principles of a latest, pro-Western nation and analyzes the pressures his successor, King Mohammed VI has come lower than to rework the autocratic monarchy right into a full-fledged democracy. Howe addresses rising matters and problems--equal rights for girls, removing of corruption and correction of evident financial and social disparities--and asks the elemental query: can this historic Muslim nation include western democracy in an period of deepening divisions among the Islamic international and the West?
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What Fez needs most is investments in small and medium enterprises to create jobs, he emphasizes. Traditional industries, like textiles, have moved to the coast. At present, three-quarters of the 250,000 inhabitants of the medina make their living from handicrafts — leather goods, copper, wood, embroidery. The city has high hopes for increased tourism, but there are not enough hotels, and at present many tourists just pass through. In sum, there are not enough decent jobs to keep young people from leaving.
A philosophy professor with three children, El Mahdi and a group of academics set up the volunteer association in 1998 to fight all forms of discrimination against women. ” I remember that, in the old days, child maids were routine appendages in many wealthy Fassi homes. They were perhaps not violently mistreated but made to scrub floors and dishes and other heavy-duty tasks, with no hope of schooling or escape. El Mahdi tells me of three recent cases of abused ten-year-old girls that have attracted national attention.
The western hills are covered with olive trees and cork oaks and look like an extension of the Iberian peninsula. On the higher slopes, the landscape is composed of dense pine and cedar forests. In Tour du Maroc the background, bare peaks are clearly marked in geological layers, and some are often wrapped in snow. The natural beauty has altered little since independence. Change, however, is noticeable around the town of Ketama, the heart of kif country. In late February, marijuana plantations are not yet detectable, but pushers are out on the highway aggressively plying their wares.
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