Word: moroccan
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Along with an influx of practicing Catholics from Latin America, Spain has seen the arrival of an estimated 1 million Muslims in the past two decades, mostly from North Africa. Moroccan-born Abdul Aziz, 42, is likewise skeptical of gay marriage, and the ease with which many native Spaniards jettison the traditional family unit. "There are so many people not married, with no children. For me, this is not life. Life should be a mother, father, children," says the unemployed construction worker and father of two. He says Islam is a regular part of his life, even as he becomes...
...poetry. I always used to think that seniors were being babies or lying when they complained about their theses. “Give me a break,” I would think as I listened to them complain listlessly about how their lives were being consumed by Tocqueville or Moroccan Dance Theatre. “You people are boring freaks. I will never wear a ragged Harvard sweatshirt every day as a symbol of my inner pain.” When my thesis on the beloved topic of Edwardian drama first started to get intense, I was excited...
...assuming you're in Spain: The locals in the enchanting Mediterranean coastal city, and the triangle-shaped territory around it, cite Catalan as their national identity. In conversations across the spectrum - young and old, leftist and right-wing, gay and straight, a retired couple near Tarragona and a Moroccan immigrant in Vic - the upcoming Spanish elections are discussed as if they're taking place in a foreign country. "For Catalonia, it is better if?" was how the typical response began. Here, road signs and restaurant menus are written in Catalan. It's also the language of public education, in schools...
This predicament was the result of an ill-fated lapse of attention in a Marrakech internet café. Shoulder to shoulder with bellowing German skype-users and unibrowed Moroccan gamers, I failed to notice when my bag, student visa et al., was thieved from my side. Hence, my reapplication for entry to the States...
...country's second-largest city, Aarhus, has raised legal questions. Two of the men, Tunisians ages 36 and 25, were to be administratively extradited, an extra-judicial shortcut that would avoid taking them through a trial. Meanwhile, the third man, a 40-year-old naturalized Dane of Moroccan origin, was released for lack of evidence, also without a trial. The security service explained that it had achieved its goal: to prevent a murder. It said that if the men had been put on trial PET would be forced to reveal its sources of information and working methods. According to Danish...