It seems that this weekend is when Nichane will be permitted to arrive on the newsstands again.  I intend to buy a copy just on principle, although with Arabic being hard enough to read, you can imagine that derija is even more difficult.

For those of you just tuning in, Nichane was suspended for two months after editor Driss Ksikes and journalist Sanaa el-Aji (also a blogger) published an article on jokes that Moroccans find funny - the jokes were not new, rather, they were picked up from the streets and analyzed.  Ksikes and el-Aji were given a two year suspended sentence and fined a relatively large sum of money (which I cannot confirm, but most reports have said about $8,000 each or 80,000dh).

Since the ban on Nichane, its French sister magazine TelQuel has been publishing a small section in the back of the magazine in derija, the lingua franca of Morocco.

I will attempt to translate a few small articles for your reading enjoyment.