There’s a nice piece on bridges in last Thursday’s L’Economiste, reporting a conference at the Ecole hassania des travaux publiques. Mustapha Qadery of UM5A spoke about his research on bridges, and particularly into why so many bridges in Morocco are reputed to have been built by the Portuguese, even when they are in parts of … More Bridge of sukuns

Last week the Secretary-General of the Istiqlal, M Hamid Chabat, said in a moment of anger that Morocco should abandon French and establish English as its second language. That prompted the cartoon (above, ‘Le Pinocchio de la Semaine’ in TelQuel) which pokes fun at his perhaps less than entirely policy-driven suggestion and adds the naughty … More Hell hath no fury …