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Mamfakinch
''Mamfakinch'', which means "no concession" or "not giving in", is a Morocco, Moroccan citizen media website co-founded by Hisham Almiraat and Elmahdi El Mhamdi, among others. Mamfakinch known members include journalists Omar Radi and Nizar Bennamate as well as activists Zineb Belmkaddem and Soumia El Marbouh and several other anonymous members. Mamfakinch was founded during the Arab Spring movement in the Middle East in February 2011, shortly after the January 25th uprisings that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. It launched shortly before the February 20th protests that took place in Morocco as a way to disseminate information about the protests, to counter state-misinformation that started ahead of the events and provide a platform for free expression to ideas that did not necessarily have access to mass media. After that it became one of the major sources for citizens to gain awareness of topics not discussed in the State-run media, state-run media. History The inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Radi
Omar Radi () is a Moroccan investigative journalist and human rights activist. He has worked at Lakome, Atlantic Radio, Media 24, ''TelQuel'' and ''Le Desk'' and volunteered for the citizen media Mamfakinch, focusing on investigations about human rights, corruption and social movements. Radi's arrest in December 2019 for a tweet criticizing a judge sparked widespread condemnation from human rights organizations. In 2020, he was accused of espionage and later sentenced to six years in prison in a case that drew international attention for its alleged political motivations. He was pardoned and released in July 2024. Career Radi has reported on anti-competitive practices linked to Mounir Majidi; corruption among politicians and parliamentarians; financial irregularities in Morocco’s urgent education program; the 2018 documentary on the Hirak Rif Movement; and social movements in Sidi Ifni, Imider, and the Rif region. Legal issues 2019 arrest On 26 December 2019, Radi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocco border, the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to Morocco–Western Sahara border, the south. Morocco also claims the Spain, Spanish Enclave and exclave, exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Plazas de soberanía, Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It has a population of approximately 37 million. Islam is both the official and predominant religion, while Arabic and Berber are the official languages. Additionally, French and the Moroccan dialect of Arabic are widely spoken. The culture of Morocco is a mix of Arab culture, Arab, Berbers, Berber, Culture of Africa, African and Culture of Europe, European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Rights
Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others, they are ignored and suppressed. They differ from broader notions of human rights through claims of an inherent historical and traditional bias against the exercise of rights by women and girls, in favor of men and boys.Hosken, Fran P., 'Towards a Definition of Women's Rights' in ''Human Rights Quarterly'', Vol. 3, No. 2. (May 1981), pp. 1–10. Issues commonly associated with notions of women's rights include the right to bodily integrity and autonomy, to be free from sexual violence, to Women's suffrage, vote, to hold public office, to enter into legal contracts, to have equal rights in family law, Right to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mounir Majidi
Mounir Majidi (full name Mohamed Mounir El Majidi, ; born 10 January 1965) is a Moroccan businessman. He has been the personal secretary of King Mohammed VI since 2000 and president of the royal holding, SIGER, since 2002. He is also the president of Maroc Culture, the organization behind the Mawazine festival, of the Fath Union Sport (FUS) Rabat, of the Mohammed VI soccer academy, and of the Cheikh Zaid hospital's foundation. Biography Early life The son of a civil servant, Mounir Majidi was born and grew up in a low-income area of Rabat. He earned high marks in school, and was subsequently chosen to be homeschooled in the company of Mohammed VI's late cousin Naoufel Osman, the son of Ahmed Osman and Princess Lalla Nuzha (a sister of Hassan II). Mounir Majidi was a classmate of Mohammed VI's late cousin "Nawfal Osman", the son of Ahmed Osman and ''Princess Lalla Nuzha'' (a sister of Hassan II). He studied computer science in Strasbourg, France where he worked at Sagem and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groupe Bull
Bull SAS (also known as Groupe Bull, Bull Information Systems, or simply Bull) is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris. The company has also been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN. Bull was founded in 1931, as H.W. Egli - Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull (1882–1925). After a reorganization in 1933, with new investors coming in, the name was changed to Compagnie des Machines Bull (CMB). Bull has a worldwide presence in more than 100 countries and is particularly active in the defense, finance, health care, manufacturing, public, and telecommunication sectors. History Origins On 31 July 1919, Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Bull filed a patent for a "combined sorter-recorder-tabulator of punch cards" machine that he had developed with financing from the Norwegian insurance comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moncef Belkhayat
Moncef Belkhayat (born 28 January 1970) is a Moroccan entrepreneur who founded and developed various companies in Morocco under the holding H&S. A former politician, he left politics on 26 December 2019 to focus on his various businesses. He served as the Minister of Youth and Sports in Abbas El Fassi's government in 2009. Born in Rabat, he earned his high school diploma in 1988, going on to graduate from the High Institute of Commerce and Business Administration ( ISCAE) in 1992. For the next three years he worked as a sales representative for Procter & Gamble in Morocco. In 1996 he was promoted to regional sales manager in Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ..., and in 1998 became the development director of Africa and the Middle East. In 2000 he moved o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CIA Black Sites
Following the September 11 attacks of 2001 and subsequent War on Terror, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) established a "Detention and Interrogation Program" that included a network of clandestine extrajudicial detention centers, officially known as " black sites", to detain, interrogate, and often torture suspected enemy combatants, usually with the acquiescence, if not direct collaboration, of the host government. CIA black sites systematically employed torture in the form of "enhanced interrogation techniques" of detainees, most of whom had been illegally abducted and forcibly transferred. Known locations included Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. Black sites were part of a broader American-led global program that included facilities operated by foreign governments—most commonly Syria, Egypt, and Jordan—as well as the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which housed those deemed " illegal enemy combatants" unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temara Interrogation Centre
The Temara interrogation center, also known as Temara secret detention center (), is an extrajudicial detainment and secret prison facility of Morocco located within a forested area of Rabat, Morocco. It is operated by the Directorate for the Surveillance of the Territory (Direction de la surveillance du territoire, DST), a Moroccan domestic intelligence agency implicated in past and ongoing human rights violations, which continues to arrest, detain and interrogate individuals suspected of involvement in terrorism-related activities outside of the Moroccan legal framework. History The first known detainee was Mohammed Mossadegh Benkhadra (), in 1985 and spent 8 years in extrajudicial detainment and without trial. And later when he was released 1993, he wrote the book "Tazmara 234", contraction from words Temara and Tazmamart another popular prison and as a sign of continued abuse from the Years of Lead (Morocco) to present days. More recently, Zakaria Moumni claimed to have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Justice
Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has often referred to the process of ensuring that individuals fulfill their societal roles and receive their due from society. In the current movements for social justice, the emphasis has been on the breaking of barriers for social mobility, the creation of safety nets, and economic justice. Social justice assigns rights and duties in the institutions of society, which enables people to receive the basic benefits and burdens of cooperation. The relevant institutions often include taxation, social insurance, public health, public school, public services, labor law and regulation of markets, to ensure distribution of wealth, and equal opportunity. Modernist interpretations that relate justice to a reciprocal relationship to society a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elite
In political and sociological theory, the elite (, from , to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful or wealthy people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group. Defined by the ''Cambridge Dictionary'', the "elite" are "the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society". American sociologist C. Wright Mills states that members of the elite accept their fellows' position of importance in society. "As a rule, 'they accept one another, understand one another, marry one another, tend to work, and to think, if not together at least alike'." It is a well-regulated existence where education plays a critical role. Plantations As European settlers began to colonize the Americas in the 16th and 17th centuries, they quickly realized the economic potential of growing cash crops which were in high demand in Europe. Owned by the planter class, plantations, large-scale farms where large numbers of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Media
In journalism, mainstream media (MSM) is a term and abbreviation used to refer collectively to the various large Mass media, mass news media that influence many people and both reflect and shape prevailing currents of thought.Noam Chomsky, Chomsky, Noam, ''"What makes mainstream media mainstream"'', October 1997, ''Z Magazine''/ref> The term is used to contrast with alternative media. The term is often used for large Media conglomerate, news conglomerates, including newspapers and broadcast media, that underwent successive mergers in many countries. The concentration of media ownership has raised concerns of a homogenization of viewpoints presented to news consumers. Consequently, the term ''mainstream media'' has been used in conversation and the blogosphere, sometimes in oppositional, pejorative or dismissive senses, in discussion of the mass media and media bias. United States In the United States, movie production is known to have been dominated by major film studios, majo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
