The Peace Corps' Moroccan Arabic textbook is partially on-line at Friends of Morocco. This textbook teaches the spoken dialect of Arabic peculiar to Morocco, as opposed to Modern Standard Arabic, which is uniformly used in reading, writing, and official communications throughout the Arab world.
August 2005 Archives
Wafin.com has a story (registration required) on the efforts of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to make a continuing contribution to development in Morocco through the High Atlas Foundation, which is holding a reception and fundraiser in New York City on September 15, 2005.
Prisoners' Release in Morocco Debated
The Washington Post reports that even as the last Moroccan prisoners of the Polisario are freed after more than two decades of captivity, questions still remain over the future of the Western Sahara. Morocco maintains that the prisoner release was a political ploy by the Algerian government, which has not been held accountable for the prisoners' detention or its sponsorship of the Policsario Front. Several former prisoners claimed to have been tortured by Algerians while in captivity. Polisario officials, meanwhile, said that the onus was now on Morocco to account for missing guerrillas and to honor its longstanding pledge to hold a referendum on the future of the Western Sahara.
