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In 1949, the musician Salim Halali settled in Morocco and transformed an old café in Maârif into a prestigious cabaret, Le Coq d'Or, where Warda Al-Jazairia and El-Haja El-Hamdaouia performed. [3] In the neighborhood is also located the Mohammed V stadium which holds room for 44'000 spectators. [4] Rue du Jura in 2013, before renovations.
In 1886, Élisée Reclus described Casablanca as a "European coastal settlement" and "desolate and extremely unhealthy." [3] [15] A nawāl or tankīra, origin of the name of the Tnaker neighborhood, circa 1910. [3] In his 1900 map of the city, Dr. Frédéric Weisgerber identified three main parts: the medina, the mellah, and the Tnaker (huts). [3]
The two towers are one of the tallest buildings in Casablanca. They rise through 115 meters (377 ft) to a total of 28 floors each. The total floor area is 93,000 m 2 (1,001,044 sq ft), with a 7.2-meter-high (24 ft) atrium. There are 15 elevators (lifts) in the Twin Center. The towers were inaugurated in 1998 and became a landmark in Casablanca.
Trump to visit Paris for Notre Dame: Cathedral's reopening in first trip abroad as president-elect France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron are seen at a ...
The Central Market was the most important marketplace in Casablanca's European ville nouvelle. The Moroccan nationalist resistance fighter Muhammad Zarqtuni bombed the Central Market on December 24, 1953, after French forces forced Sultan Muhammad V into exile on August 20, 1953—which was Eid al-Adha .
The "passivity" agreement FDIC wants BlackRock to sign is designed to assure bank regulators that the giant money manager will remain a "passive" owner of an FDIC-supervised bank and won’t exert ...
Many older Americans want to live out their lives in their own homes. Josie Norris /The Tennessean-USA TODAY NETWORK