Technically, Morocco only has two official languages: Arabic and Amazigh, also known as Berber. Morocco’s geographic relevance as a connecting point between Europe, Africa and the Americas, coupled ...

RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's economy is getting lost in translation. With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as ...

Amazigh language has declined as population goes to cities Moroccan government promised to boost the language Activists say the state must do more to help RABAT, Jan 30 (Reuters) - When Hassna Amzil's ...

As a child, Mohammed Ait Amghar, a shopkeeper from the Azilal region in Morocco, could only speak his native language, Amazigh. In 1982, when he was 8 years old, he felt unwell in class, his teacher ...

In some countries, school systems strive to produce bilingual students. In Morocco, students are now expected to be quadrilingual, and it is causing friction among the country’s conservative and ...

According to a study commissioned by the British Council, 40% of young Moroccans feel that it is more important to learn English than French, compared to only 10% who think otherwise. This figure will ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds ...

Mentions of North Africa tend to conjure up a specific mental picture in the minds of Western tourists – a picture replete with camels.

This article is written by Mohammed Udern. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. As a child, ...

(RNS) — Growing up in Fez, Morocco, Yona Elfassi was always aware of the history of the city, which has been a center of culture, learning and spirituality since the ninth century. Home to great minds ...