Morocco

For hundreds of years, Morocco has been a key link in the world maritime order between the global north and the global south. It is now turning its attention to the West.

Essaouira, on the Moroccan coast, was the grand backdrop of Orson Welles' cinematic masterpiece "Othello", a production marred with financial trouble. Still, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1952.

The French-Moroccan writer explores the painful tendency of first-generation immigrants to go silent, putting an unbridgeable distance between themselves and their children.

The global economy is intricately tied to politics and peace and Israel's war on Gaza raises geopolitical tensions in an already tense global climate.

Marrakech is hosting the annual meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions in October. This is after being unable to convene in Morocco in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A stuttering post-pandemic economy in Morocco has led to high unemployment, especially among graduates leaving an education system which needs to better equip them for an evolving labour market

Deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria earlier this year were followed by the Morocco earthquake, floods in Libya, and an extreme heatwave in Europe, which will further drive costs up

As the death toll from Friday's earthquake nears 3,000, Al Majalla takes a look at some of the other catastrophic quakes in Moroccan history