http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta An American in Meknes Sun, 04 May 2008 18:31:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This year's second and third place winners of the Boston Marathon were both Moroccan!  Although Kenyan Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won first place, Abderrahime Bouramdane of Fez came in second, with Khalid El Boumlili finishing in third place.  Both men are Olympic hopefuls. Unfortunately,  no Moroccan women placed in the top ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/05/04/moroccans-in-the-marathon/ Have you been to this site yet? I am, of course, biased, but please - if you check it out and enjoy it, post a link on your blog! http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/04/05/americans-vote-the-world-speaks/ Although I posted reactions to Fouad Mourtada's release at Global Voices last night (a story broken by bloggers and then, Global Voices Advocacy), several more English-language bloggers have expressed their thoughts on the matter since. Hisham of Al Miraat shares my sentiment; that Fouad Mourtada's release is only a start:  The news ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/03/19/reactions-to-fouad-mourtadas-release/ Fouad Mourtada has been released from prison after serving only 25 days of his sentence. Mourtada, who was arrested on February 5 for impersonating Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, then sentenced on February 22 to three years in prison and $1,000 fine, has received an outpouring of support from bloggers around ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/03/19/fouad-mourtada-is-free/ This week, I will be traveling to Miami with some other Global Voices folk to attend the ifocus WeMedia conference (see interview here).  I will also be launching my own website/blog (finally!) - which is not to say this one will become defunct...I plan to leave it up and eventually ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/02/23/wemedia/ Today, Tuesday, February 19, is the fourteenth day of Fouad Mourtada's imprisonment. He committed the error, but not the crime, of creating a Facebook account in the name of Prince Moulay Rachid. This account contained no insults against the Prince nor was it the instrument of any swindling attempts. His ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/02/19/this-blog-is-on-strike/ Moroccan Fouad Mourtada has been arrested in Casablanca for creating a false profile on Facebook of a member of Morocco's royal family. His family has created a website: Help Fouad, to get his story internationally recognized. Although this should come as no surprise, I find it absolutely deplorable that anyone be arrested ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/02/14/help-fouad-mourtada/ Global Voices, in partnership with Reuters, has launched a new site that I'll be working on; Voices without Votes is a project of Global Voices commissioned by Reuters. Americans are the only ones who can elect the United States president, but the 2008 election offers a unique opportunity to harvest global ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/02/13/voices-without-votes/   Having read both volumes of the book, I was thrilled when I heard that the film was coming to Boston.  Hamza and I ventured out into the relative warmth of this weekend to find the cinema at Kendall Square in Cambridge (not an easy feat).  Although it cost $9.50 for ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/01/14/persepolis/ Exciting news this morning - the Agence France-Presse (AFP) published an article on blogging in Morocco and as it turns out, Moroccan bloggers have far more freedom than their North African and Middle Eastern counterparts (not to mention far more blogs than the former). As a Morocco-related blogger for the past ... http://www.moroccosavvy.com/taamarbuuta/2008/01/07/moroccan-bloggers-are-free/