In Canada, lawyers are concerned about entry bans in the United States against Muslim Canadians. Recently, this measure targeted at least six citizens, two of whom spoke about the problem to CBC, as relayed by Radio-Canada. For example, the media reports that Imran Ally, a Guyana-native and imam in a Toronto mosque «and his wheelchair-bound, special-needs son were held at the Peace Bridge crossing near Fort Erie, Ont., for more than five hours». After the
Following a census of the population of the state of Assam (India) which has 33 million inhabitants, the Supreme Court released Saturday, the new list of citizens (National Register of Citizens). The judicial body learned through it that 1.9 million inhabitants, most of which are Muslims, are to be deprived of their citizenship, thus becoming stateless. Indeed, French newspaper Le Monde emphasizes that people not on the updated register would henceforth be considered «illegal
On Saturday, a shooting took place between the cities of Midland and Odessa in the west of Texas (USA). Local authorities mention several dead, seven being confirmed at the moment, in addition to around twenty wounded victims. As for one of the shooters, described as a white man in his thirties, he was shot after a shootout with the police in a movie theater parking lot, according to the American media CNN. The Belga news agency reports that police sources differ on the
Destroyed last Monday due to, according to the Ministry of the Interior, a lack of authorizations, the Holocaust Memorial erected by German NGO PixelHelper in Ait Faska (province of Marrakech) is again under the spotlight. Indeed, the association announced on Saturday that the lawyer Isaac Charia was working on the case, in order to «prevent the demolition» of what remains of the «works of art» erected on the site. The announcement was made on Facebook by
The president of the Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI), Kamal Daissaoui, who is also a researcher and a lecturer at the same institution, was made a Knight of the Order of Sciences and Innovation in London, during the International Grand Salon inventions, held on the 29 and 30 August. The researcher was awarded in recognition of «his actions in favor of scientific research and innovation». According to a statement from EMSI, this establishment has also won the Platinum
Antwerp-native Nadia Dala is currently focusing on teaching and writing. But before that, she was a journalist who decided to get into academic research in both Belgium and the United States.
In March, African-American citizen Timothy Hucks was driven to a police station in Rabat, where he was taken, with a group of Sub-Saharan migrants, to Beni Mellal in a bus. The man tells Yabiladi about the unusual experience that now prevents him from leaving the country.
Climate change could harm Muslims planning to visit Saudi Arabia in the coming years to perform Hajj. The findings of a new study reveal that future Hajj seasons are expected to take place in hot summers.
A new photographic exhibition at the Marshall J. Gardner Center (Indiana) for the Arts in the Miller Beach section of Gary is expected to highlight several aspects of a number of countries, including Morocco. According to local online newspaper The Times of Northwest Indiana, the exhibition, which will take place from September 6 to October 6, will feature the «Definitive Moments» of Canadian-born photographer Martha Bohn and her trips to Nepal India, Cuba and Morocco.
Visited yearly by thousands of Jewish Moroccans, Daoud Boussidan is the saint of Meknes. Born in Tamelelt and buried in Meknes, the rabbi was a Jewish scholar who lived during the eighteenth century in Morocco.