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Morocco Week in Review 
June 6, 2009

Holidays for everybody: 42 summer camps in 2009.
Rabat

Some 42 summer camps are scheduled for this year, as part of the "2009 Holidays for everybody" operation, compared to 37 last year, Minister of Youth and Sports, Nawal Moutawakil, said on Wednesday. Speaking at the House of Representatives' question time, the minister highlighted the efforts made to upgrade and equip the camps, and encourage participation of children belonging to child protection centers, and children from rural or remote areas.

1,250 children from child protection centers will benefit from this year's "Holidays for everybody" program, which will be carried out in six cities: Rabat, Nador, Tangier, Safi, Agadir, and El Jadida, she said. Children with special needs as well as those living abroad, whose number is estimated at 1,120 children against 1060 last year, will benefit from this program, she said. As part of international cooperation, the ministry also organizes summer camps for children coming from other countries, such as Mauritania and Senegal. http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/holidays_for_everybo/view
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Moroccan bac students seek post-degree guidance.
By Siham Ali 2009-05-31

Some Moroccan students and families claim to receive minimal help deciding what to do after completing the baccalaureate. There are tools in place to help families choose the right options, officials counter. Students across Morocco are making final preparations for this year's baccalaureate exams, set to begin on Tuesday (June 2nd). They are also wondering what happens next.

Concerned about the value of a university diploma in the present job market, many young people do not know where to turn once they have their baccalaureate. Families are also trying to identify which post-baccalaureate course would be best for their children. One student, Hamza, still does not know which higher education course he will be taking next September, although he is one of the top students in his high school. He hopes to keep away from university, which he describes as an "unemployment factory".

Hajar has the same concerns, and hopes to find some vocational training suited to the labour market.
"My parents are prepared to pay for my higher education," she told Magharebia, "but with the number of schools in Rabat and Casablanca, choosing between them is becoming difficult, and we can't find anyone to give us good advice and help us decide objectively."

A number of students have sought guidance and inspiration from web forums like Qrayti.com, where students share experiences in high schools and higher education. Some students warned of the risks of heeding bad advice, however, claiming to have wasted years working in the wrong direction.

Ilham Belghiti said that after studying French literature at university for a year, she had to change course and enter a school of journalism. "I wasted a year of my life, when I could have been steered towards this option from the start. I didn't even know that this course existed."

The Ministry of National Education says that considerable efforts have been made in all academic sectors to provide effective educational guidance. Handbooks are given to students, and a number of guidance forums are held all over Morocco.

These annual meetings see attendance in the hundreds, the ministry said. Mohamed Baala, a teacher, said there is so much information available on education options that it is only "illiterate parents who cannot choose their children's education options".

His view is not shared by many pupils or parents, who said they would like more interaction with counsellors. Amina Baaji is a high school teacher in Rabat. She told Magharebia that pupils do not need discussion forums but personal meetings, so that each of them can decide what their needs are. "These forums are a shop window for schools and institutes, but they do not answer high school students' questions," she said.

Malika Bachiri, a public sector worker, said that students and families do not have enough information about the schools springing up around them. "As a mother, I'm lost," she said. "What choice should I make over my daughter’s future? The ministry must get more involved in providing guidance." She suggested that there be information campaigns at the end of each school year. "The huge number of unemployed graduates is just the result of choosing the wrong educational options," she concluded.
http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/05/31/feature-01
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Baccalaureate exams begin for 315,000 Moroccan students.
By Sarah Touahri 2009-06-02

Many more Moroccan students, especially girls, will sit the baccalaureate exams than in 2008. Officials are ready for the onslaught with new anti-cheating strategies. After weeks of anticipation and anxiety, Moroccan students begin three days of baccalaureate examinations on Tuesday (May 2nd).

Meriem B, 17, began preparing weeks ago for these examinations. Despite having always been among the most outstanding pupils since her primary school days, she has waited for the big day with considerable apprehension. "I've always liked literary subjects, even though I've always got good marks in all my subjects. That's why I chose the Modern Literature option. Except that now I feel I made a mistake with my choices, because my options from this point onward have turned out to be quite limited," she explained. Now she is hoping to come away with a good average mark so that she can claim a guaranteed place at the higher institute for journalism, which selects the best baccalaureate holders from around Morocco.

Just like Meriem, thousands of young people foster high hopes of passing the bac. According to the ministry of education, the number of candidates has risen to 315,718 - 4.77% higher than last year. The number of girls sitting the examinations is 154,521, making up 48.94% of all candidates, and marking an increase of 12.87% compared with last year.

There are 142,032 candidates taking literary examinations, compared with 147,086 for science subjects, accounting for respectively 44.99% and 46.59% of all candidates. Candidates in technical subjects number 21,765, and 4,835 are sitting for foundation subjects.

The literary branch, which in the past attracted the highest number of candidates, has started to tail off to the benefit of the scientific branch, explained Hamid Badissi, a teacher. This is a result of students' aspirations for a greater choice when they reach higher education, he added. According to figures from the national education ministry, candidate numbers for the scientific and technical subjects have seen remarkable growth, rising by 7.54% and 33.68% respectively, while those for literature and foundation subjects have dropped by 0.50% and 6.04% respectively compared with last year.

Officials say that everything is in place for the examinations to run smoothly."The ministry has issued pupils with a guide to the examinations, including all the legal measures which apply in the case of cheating," said Mohamed Sassi, the director of the Centre for Assessment and Examinations. To cut down on cheating, the ministry has banned mobile phones along with all unauthorised documentation from being brought in on examination days.

Badissi said that cheating is so serious that it is a threat to the credibility of the baccalaureate diploma. "Hence the supreme importance of putting strict rules in place to discourage candidates from resorting to any fraudulent practices," he added. http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2009/06/02/feature-01
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Princess Lalla Hasnaa chairs green flag award ceremony for labeled Ecoschools.
Rabat

Princess Lalla Hasnaa, Chairwoman of the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environment Protection, chaired on Thursday the ceremony of awarding the "green flag" to labeled schools part of the Eco-Schools programme. Nine schools among the 17 that joined the Eco-Schools programme received the "green flag", which rewards the schools that managed to come up with solutions to "Water, Energy and Waste" related-issues.

Princess Lalla Hasnaa attended a play that was performed by pupils enrolled in the Eco-Schools programme and handed the green flag to the labeled schools and visited an exhibition on waste sorting and processing, prepared by pupils involved in this programme. She also handed out encouragement certificates to eight other schools, part of the programme.
This year the programme touched 9,000 pupils and it eyes to involve 2 million pupils in the 2009-2010 academic year, according to the Mohammed VI Foundation for Environment Protection.

In its experimental phase, the programme touched 8,471 pupils in 17 schools located in 9 regions of the kingdom.
The Eco-Schools program, launched in Morocco in November 2006, encourages all stakeholders to engage in an process
http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/princess_lalla_hasna1381/view
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Morocco, role model in rural electrification in Africa, expert.
Marrakech

Morocco stands out as a role model in the field of rural electrification in Africa, expert and consultant MENA/Africa, Belkacem Boutayeb, said on Friday. Morocco's achievements in the area of rural electrification, a key element to reach sustainable development, enabled it to become an example for other African countries, Boutayeb told MAP on the sidelines of the closing session of the 3rd African Forum of Electric Energy held on June 4-5.

The rate of rural electrification in Morocco reached 96% in March 2009 against 19% in 1995. The Renewable Energy Development Centre (CDER) presented the broad lines of Morocco's policy regarding the financing and the promotion of renewable energy, he recalled, noting that the different African partners showed interest in the Moroccan expertise in the area.

The north African countries could serve as a bridge in terms of the search for financing from the financial institutions to draw more investments towards the African continent, Boutayeb said. "The wisdom, co-operation and the spirit of tolerance of the Sub-Saharan countries could constitute major accomplishments (..) to optimise trans-regional and cross-border cooperation with North Africa," he said.

The forum was marked by the "Africa Power Forum Awards 2009" awarded to a Spanish enterprise that manages a major electric project in Morocco and Algeria, the Tunisian National Agency for Energy Management and the West Africa Power Pool company (Côte d’Ivoire). Organized by I-conférence in partnership with the Energy Ministry and UPDEA, the event, themed "Competitive Energy and Sustainable Development", gathered 220 participants from 19 countries.
http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/morocco_role_model/view
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'Walou' to the rescue of street children in Morocco.
By Safae El Yaqoubi

Starting as an eight-people non profit group, "Walou" aspires to make a difference in the lives of many children roaming the streets of Morocco with no shelter or future. The task seems quite challenging, but it just needs a lot of perseverance and much will, both abundant elements in Walou, the Moroccan Arabic for 'Nothing'.

Call for help
"It all started in Tetouan when I noticed a big number of young children roaming Mohamed V Street until midnight," Zainab Gormat, an English-language teacher in the northern city of Fez says. She explains how she decided to consider joining a community-service association that addresses the issue of street children.

"There were kids from different ages trying to sell tissues, chewing gums..." while others were hunting for opportunities to "catch" someone passing by them begging them for a couple of dirhams. "The same scene was repeated over and over until I became curious to know what's behind their worn-out but smiley faces."

Joining "Walou" was just a matter of time when Zainab got in touch with its two main founders, Dahlia Maarouf and Maiya Ahmed. "It was exactly what I was looking for to be able to contribute to rescuing some of many children in distress throughout Morocco."

A Research and Funding Manager within Walou, Zainab is working on developing training program such as mechanic courses, carpentry, sewing classes, sports...etc. “This is meant to help those kids develop their potentials while being re-integrated into the society, and being offered a chance to pursue their studies. It is also meant to involve other people, make this issue everyone's concern,” Zainab adds.

British endeavor for Moroccan mission:
For Walou Director/Founder, Dahlia Maarouf, it is quite strange that the organization started off in the UK by British citizens from Egyptian and Somali origins. “Surprisingly, none of us [the founders] are actually Moroccans,” says Dahlia, a Briton with Egyptian origins who decided to embark on this mission after spending one year in Morocco.

Currently, there are eight committed people involved in this charity group: four in the UK and four others in Morocco. The organization was officially launched after being registered as British Charity in April 2009. It is now in the process of being declared as a Moroccan charity organization.

Dahlia, who has a long career in PR and Advocacy, sums up the mission of Walou into one full sentence: “To protect and care for Moroccan children living in precarious situations, through rehabilitation, reintegration and outreach programs.”

“It shocked and saddened me that there were many children as young as 6 or 7 living and working on the streets fending for themselves,” says Maiya Ahmed, a Londonian pharmacist and one of the founding members.

Getting it together
It is a bit challenging to get the organization on track with eight people having full time jobs: “There is still a lot of work to do on a daily basis in terms of admin, business plans, fundraising strategies, and actually setting up the project,” Says Dahlia.

Operating from home, Dahlia hopes by the beginning of the 2010, Walou will have received funds to set up an office in London. The starting, yet committed group members plan to build the first center in Casablanca by 2010. “This project is ongoing and has the potential to help an endless amount of children living in precarious situations,” Dahlia says.

The Organisation has a website of its own www.walou4us.com. Besides its mission of reaching out to the community to recruit volunteers or collect funds, it features heart-breaking stories of children who live in the street with no protection.

Where is the money?
Funding is the backbone of every Charity organization to ensure continuity and success in attaining the goals set. Aware of this fact, Walou has held a few successful Fundraising events in London over the two years.

“We have just started our Fundraising Strategy to get bigger sponsors on board. We hope to apply to different government bodies and companies within the UK, Europe and also in Morocco,” says Dahlia.

Moroccan Trekking is yet another way to fundraise: A group of British friends took part in May in a six-day Moroccan Trek through the Atlas Mountains. All in aid for Walou. The same group of friends successfully completed the 3 peaks challenge last year in June 2008, a bench-mark in British trekking, where participants climbed the highest three mountains in England all in 24 hours.

“Walou’s aim is to get everyone involved, everyone can volunteer towards this organization,” says Dahlia in a hopeful tone.

More than a charity
According to Zainab, Walou literally means "nothing" in Moroccan Arabic. It means that everyone can help even if they think they have "Walou" because help is not only confined to being able to offer money; it can be by simply smiling or saying hi to those kids, treat them as "normal" kids, teach something you know, instead of ignoring them and walking away as if they didn't exist.

For Dahlia what really makes Walou different is the fact that it offers more than a home or food to eat. It is about working with each child and recognizing his/her individuality, difficulties and struggles.

“I can’t wait until we build our first home in Casa, and I can’t wait until we see these children growing, learning and excelling like other children,” she goes on to say.

http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/sometimes_it_takes/view
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Morocco allocates $1.5 mln to fight cancer in 2009.
Rabat

Morocco has allocated 12 million dirhams (1.5 million dollars) to fight cancer in 2009 against 8 million dirhams (1 million dollars) in 2008, Health Minister, Yasmina Baddou said. Cancer is a real danger and inflicts a great deal of suffering to patients, Baddou said, Tuesday, at the house of Adviser's question time. According to Baddou, a national strategy has been elaborated to address this issue and it relates mainly to creating new regional centers specialized in cancer treatment, reinforcing prevention against most prevalent types of cancer, and improving medical coverage of patients as well as scientific research.

The ministry works in collaboration with several civil society organizations, notably the Lalla Salma Association to fight Cancer (ALSC) through a program of early screening of breast and cervical cancers, Baddou said. Along with the ALSC, it plans to generalize, throughout Morocco, a pilot experience aimed at providing free medicines in the southern region of Agadir. The Minister said her department plans to create new centers in Marrakech, Tangiers, and Fez in addition to a center of child cancer in Rabat, an oncology center in Casablanca, and a pain treatment unit within the Rabat Oncology National Center.
http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/morocco_allocates/view
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Inmates' right to education, top priority for Morocco.
Geneva

The right of prisoners to education is a top priority for Morocco, Morocco's Ambassador to the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG), Omar Hilale said on Tuesday. Securing the right to education for prisoners is at the heart of the roles assigned to the penitentiary establishments, Hilale said before the 11th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the theme "The Right to Education of Persons in Detention." He said the efforts of the Mohamed VI Foundation for the Reintegration of Prisoners evidences Morocco’s care for the blossoming of the human personality of the detainee.

The Foundation has devised an action plan for the 2005-2010 period to promote literacy among prisoners, give access to education to eligible people, and gradually set up handicraft workshops, the diplomat said. Hilale recalled that Morocco launched a pilot operation of post-prison reintegration to enable former prisoners with training degrees to get back to active life.

The U.N. special rapporteur on the right to education, Vernor Munoz Villalobos, has noted during his visit to Morocco in 2006 the country’s major achievements in terms of education thanks to reforms undertaken in the sector, he added.
http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/social/inmates__right_to_ed/view
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Is the Moroccan middle class a myth?
Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Is the Moroccan middle class a myth? By dint of talking about it without ever really weighing it up, the subject had ended up on a par with waiting for Godot. It is a recurrent theme in every debate, in every analysis and every forum for everyone is convinced of the stabilising, even key role it has to play in the economy. This is what carries the hopes of the country’s future development. Right away economists and politicians are lying in wait for the least movement on this level. Current affairs have made this theme fashionable again – it is obviously internal consumption that has allowed Morocco to “weather” international storms.
Before setting a figure on the value of this deposit, it is first of all necessary to agree on the criteria used to measure it. For there is no one conception of this quest for the middle class. How is this population divided geographically? What are the hallmarks that characterize this class’s habits of consumption? The middle class is, at the end of the day, a subjective concept which is only of interest in relation to the ‘ingredients’ grafted onto it. This is even the most important aspect of these roadworks.

It is to this very difficult exercise that the High Commission for Planning (HCP) has endeavoured to apply itself in what seems to be the first operation of the type. Income and standard of living remain one of the criteria traditionally used to identify a socio-economic grouping. And these are the criteria that have been used by the HCP. The other option that could have been used is that of self-identification by heads of households.
This method was rejected as it was judged to be inappropriate and its results biased. “This method tells us about the way of life of a section of the population in terms of social status. But it carries with it the disadvantage of not fitting in with the objective stratification of society as a whole,” Ahmed Lahlimi, High Commissioner for Planning, explained to us at the unveiling of the first results of the enquiry into the middle class which took place on Wednesday, 6 May. According to the methodology used by the HCP, i.e. income and standard of living, the middle class is defined as that group of individuals disposing of an income close to the median. In order to simplify its outline, the HCP based itself on the enquiry into income and standard of living carried out in 2007 details of which will shortly become available.

In its own methodology the HCP team referred to national median income. The advantage of this median value is that it divides households into two groups of equal size. It also allows us to correct for the skewing effect of extremes. “This is the method adopted in all statistical approaches to fix the limits for the margins in which social classes occur,” the High Commissioner for Planning tells us in justification. National median income comes out at 3,500 dirhams a month per household. In order to determine middle class incomes, the HCP has fixed the minimum, or the floor, at 0.75 times median income, in other words at 2,800 dirhams a month per household. Poor and vulnerable households, and some of those situated beyond the vulnerability threshold, have therefore been left out. These evaluations can be contested as to detail but they do have the merit of starting a debate and giving an overall canvas that can be worked on.

The ceiling for these statistics is fixed at 2½ times the median and comes out at 6,736 dirhams. The HCP opted for a wide definition of middle-classness. This was a choice justified by income distribution and consumer spending in households that evince inequality: the most affluent 10% of the population account for 38% of the income and 33% of consumer spending. On the other hand 27% live below the vulnerability threshold and only account for 11% of income and 10% of consumer spending. “A wide option in the definition of the middle classes is the one most adapted to a specific policy advocating their reinforcement in a strategy of upward social mobility,” the High Commissioner for Planning opined.
http://www.morocconewsline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=376&Itemid=26
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The profitable business of adultery in Morocco.Saturday, 23 May 2009
Abdessamad Taghi gets out of his light grey car. He takes off his sunglasses revealing a look that is lively and attentive. A private detective is hiding behind this conventional appearance of a forty-year-old. This is an occupation about which not much is known in Morocco, at least as far as the general public is concerned. It doesn’t matter. Agent Taghi, based in Mohammédia, already has a lot on his plate. “For months now I’ve been snowed under with work. I work on 5 cases at once,” the detective points out…………

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Morocco's New Guiding Force. Saturday, 30 May 2009
Not long ago in the Moroccan city of Rabat, Nezha Nassi met an 18-year-old girl in prison on drug charges. The girl was afraid to leave prison because her parents said she was no longer welcome at home.

For months, Nassi counseled the girl, who seemed to bloom slowly and build an idea of the life she wanted. Nassi visited the girl's mother to persuade her to take her back, saying the girl would be worse off in the streets and that she had worked to give up her addiction. Nassi told the mother she had the girl's promise…….

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Hassan Tower, a look at Morocco's 12th C. architecture.by Ahmed El Jechtimi

Moroccan architecture during the 12th century is an eclectic, cosmopolitan cultural blend that reflects the country's long, rich and diversified history.

Several historical sites and ancient monuments enrich the architectural landscape of the capital, Rabat. And the impressive and unfinished Hassan minaret, now referred to as the Hassan Tower is one of these monuments that make of Rabat, along with Fez, Marrakech and Meknes, an imperial city of the North African Kingdom.

The intimidating Hassan Tower is an incomplete minaret of the Hassan mosque that was intended to be the second largest mosque in the Islamic world in the 12th century after the mosque of Samara in Iraq.

The construction of this architectural treasure began in 1195, during the reign of the Almohad leader, Yacoub El Mansour, who reigned with distinction, from 1184 to 1199, and commissioned the building of several other great mosques, notably the Koutoubia mosque in Marrakech, Morocco, and Giralda tower, before it was converted into a cathedral bell tower in Seville, Spain.

The mosque was considered the cornerstone for establishing a new Muslim city. It was the first edifice to be erected at the center of a larger project that would include other surrounding buildings. The mosque was not only a place of worship, but also a learning sanctuary and meeting venue.

Today, the incomplete Hassan Tower, the vast marble floor, the left columns and the surviving walls indicate the huge dimensions of an unfinished mosque, that was intended to span over an area of 183 on 128 meters. History experts say the building of this colossal mosque, which was not compatible with the size of Rabat, then a small town, shows the Almohade leader’s ambition to make the city his new Capital, given its strategic location between the empire’s then capital city, Marrakech, and the Iberian peninsula, where large parts where under Almohade rule.

He also aspired to build a grand-scale mosque that would surpasses the great mosque of Cordoba which used to be, at the time, the capital city of the western Islamic world.

Soaring 44 meters into the sky, the Hassan Tower is an ultimate example of the breathtaking Moroccan Almohad architecture. This rectangular edifice, which was intended to be 88-meters high, reflects the reverence, which Moroccans had for mosques since the advent of Islam. It is no a coincidence that this reverence was manifested at the end of the 20th century, when the Hassan II mosque, one of the world’s largest mosques, with the highest Minaret (210 meters), was inaugurated in 1993 in Casablanca.

Towering above the Bouregreg River, the sandstone Hassan Tower measures 16 meters from each side and is ornamented from the exterior with magnificent Islamic calligraphy. The same beautiful patterns are noticed in the Giralda Tower in Seville, which used to be the capital city of the Almohad dynasty in the Iberian peninsula.

From the inside, the tower is ascended by ramps instead of stairs, which mirrors the architectural genius of the minaret. They allowed to use animals to carry heavy stones and building materials needed for the construction of the higher part of the tower. The same ramps would have enabled the Muezzin to ride a horse to the top in order to call to prayer.

Tradition says that Hassan Tower was commissioned by Yacoub EL Mansour and designed by an architect named, Jabir, who modeled it on the minaret of Koutoubia that he had designed earlier. The same architect supervised the building of the famous Giralda tower.

Today’s Giralda Cathedral in Seville was once a great mosque founded by Yacoub El Mansour. Its minaret, which still keeps the same Islamic calligraphy as Hassan Tower, was one of the highest buildings in the world. In the 16th century, it was converted into a bell tower as part of the long Reconquista process.

Hassan Tower, the Koutoubia minaret and the Giralda tower are three sister towers that strikingly embody the same features, which distinguish the Almohad minarets, notably the rectangular shape, the Islamic enchanting calligraphy and the unified design. They also manifest the great architectural and mathematical knowledge of the time, and the advanced building know-how of that era, when cities in Morocco and Muslim Spain where a showcase for civilized taste, culture and learning.

Yacoub El Mansour, who ordered the building of all these monuments, was named EL Mansour Billah (victorious by Allah), following his crushing victory in the battle of Allarcos, 1165, over Castilian King Alfonso VIII. During his reign, the Moroccan empire reached its heyday, stretching east as far as Tunisia and controlling large parts of modern-day Spain and Portugal.

Yacoub Mansour protected the Cordoba-born eminent Muslim philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd), who left long-lasting prints on western civilization, and wrote reference commentaries on most of the surviving works of Aristotel.

After Mansour’s death in 1199, construction of the Hassan mosque, which was almost materialized, came to a halt. In 1755, the hall of the mosque was destroyed by a violent earthquake whose epicenter was in the Portuguese city of Lisbon, which was raised to the ground. Only the unfinished Tower and some ruins survived this natural catastrophe, thanks to the solidity of its sandstones and the strong basis on which it stands.

The Hassan Tower is now one of the most prestigious historical monuments in Morocco. The eight-century old tower, adorned by charming gardens around it, was listed in 1995 as a world heritage by the UNESCO.

The magnificent incomplete tower and the impressive ruins of the Hassan mosque contrast the equally magnificent completeness of the neighboring Mausoleum, which was raised in tribute to the late King Mohammed V and contains his tomb in additions to those of his two sons, late King Hassan II and Prince Moulay Abdullah.

With its lofty green dome, the Mausoleum is a successful combination of the modern architecture and the traditional historical architecture of Morocco. The site is the main landmark of Morocco’s capital city that attracts tens of thousands of local and foreign tourists.
http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box5/hassan_tower_a_look/view
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