Free press takes root in Morocco

CASABLANCA, Morocco // More than 500 years before Alexis de Tocqueville memorialized his impressions of American society in his celebrated Democracy in America, a Berber traveler from Morocco set off from Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca that would last 30 years. Thereafter known as the "Traveler of Islam," Ibn Battuta authored a travel chronicle that would have a profound effect on Islam for centuries.

Moroccan Premier heads inter-ministerial commission on public freedoms, human rights

Prime Minster Driss Jettou headed a meeting of the inter-ministerial commission on public freedoms and human rights, which convened on Tuesday in Rabat to discuss issues mainly related to women's rights and the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission IER.  More