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Partiendo de fuentes primarias y una bibliografía consecuente con el tema, este artículo pretende hacer un recorrido por las políticas del colaboracionismo con los nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Norte de África, a partir de casos concretos como fueron la “Operación Cisneros”, que pretendían anexionar el Oranesado -argelino- a la España franquista, o los contactos consulares en el Marruecos francés para pasar información a los servicios alemanes con la Operación Torch en marcha.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, with the amount of money emigrants sent home soaring to new highs, governments around the world began searching for ways to capitalize on emigration for economic growth, and they looked to nations that already had policies in place. Morocco and Mexico featured prominently as sources of \"best practices\" in this area, with tailor-made financial instruments that brought migrants into the banking system, captured remittances for national development projects, fostered partnerships with emigrants for infrastructure design and provision, hosted transnational forums for development planning, and emboldened cross-border political lobbies. InCreative State, Natasha Iskander chronicles how these innovative policies emerged and evolved over forty years. She reveals that the Moroccan and Mexican policies emulated as models of excellence were not initially devised to link emigration to development, but rather were deployed to strengthen both governments' domestic hold on power. The process of policy design, however, was so iterative and improvisational that neither the governments nor their migrant constituencies ever predicted, much less intended, the ways the new initiatives would gradually but fundamentally redefine nationhood, development, and citizenship. Morocco's and Mexico's experiences with migration and development policy demonstrate that far from being a prosaic institution resistant to change, the state can be a remarkable site of creativity, an essential but often overlooked component of good governance.

How did four and a half decades of European colonial intervention transform Moroccan identity? As elsewhere in North Africa and in the wider developing world, the colonial period in Morocco (1912-1956) established a new type of political field in which notions about and relationships among politics and identity formation were fundamentally transformed. Instead of privileging top-down processes of colonial state formation or bottom-up processes of local resistance, the analysis in Making Morocco focuses on interactions between state and society. Jonathan Wyrtzen demonstrates how, during the Protectorate period, interactions among a wide range of European and local actors indelibly politicized four key dimensions of Moroccan identity: religion, ethnicity, territory, and the role of the Alawid monarchy. This colonial inheritance is reflected today in ongoing debates over the public role of Islam, religious tolerance, and the memory of Morocco's Jews; recent reforms regarding women's legal status; the monarchy's multiculturalist recognition of Tamazight (Berber) as a national language alongside Arabic; the still-unresolved territorial dispute over the Western Sahara; and the monarchy's continued symbolic and practical dominance of the Moroccan political field.

Background Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) rearrangement is a predictive factor of response to ALK inhibitors in non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The prevalence of ALK rearrangements is well known in Whites and Asians. However, data identifying the frequency of this rearrangement in Moroccan and North African population are lacking. The objective of this study is to report the frequency of ALK rearrangement in a group of Moroccan patients with NSCLC. Methods A retrospective study was performed enrolling 120 Moroccan patients with NSCLC whose biopsy samples were tested for ALK rearrangement in order to identify the frequency of ALK rearrangement and its potential association with selected variables. The ALK testing was established using fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) or immunohistochemistry (IHC). Results The frequency of ALK rearrangement was 4.2% (5/120). All positive cases were males with advanced adenocarcinoma. ALK rearrangements prevalence was significantly higher in older patients. Conclusions The frequency of ALK rearrangements among the Moroccan population tends to correlate with the average frequency reported worldwide, with some specific features. Further prospective studies with larger patients’ numbers are needed to verify these findings.

This work is situated within the context of a major geotechnical project aimed at delineating high-risk landslide zones in the Middle Rif region of Morocco, particularly between Al Jebha and Al Hoceima. The purpose of this article is to address an example of slope instability identified in the Boualma area using the Limit Equilibrium Method (LEM) methodology and validating it with the Finite Element Method (FEM). The main results of this work are the stabilization solutions for a 150 m high slope, consisting, in Phase 1, of re-profiling the slope to reduce the mass of soil set in motion by the seismic activity known in the study region, complemented by Phase 2, which involves introducing 16 nails that mobilize the friction of the substratum to ensure a highly secure safety factor. Additionally, we demonstrated the superior performance of the FEM compared to the LEM by considering the soil’s rheological behavior and the soil-structure interaction of the stabilizing nails with the supporting soil. Finally, we conducted an economic analysis of the stabilization solution over a 100 m length of the slope to quantify its financial estimate, which amounts to almost 1.3 million USD. Moreover, the conclusion drawn is a recommendation for professionals in the management of road and rail infrastructure to initially invest in durable stabilization solutions, although costly, to ensure the viability of strategic roads and avoid disruptions and their impact on passenger and freight transport.

In Morocco, the Louisiana crawfish (Procambarus clarkii) was illegally introduced in the late 90s / early 2000s by the willful release of young specimens into the Nador Canal in the Gharb region and in the Low Loukkos Marshes in the Larache region. This introduction has been carried out in both regions by an owner of an eel farm in the small town of Mehdia. Currently, P. clarkii is present in almost every body of water in these regions and constitutes a stock estimated at respectively 60.39 tons in the Gharb and 30.33 tons in the Low Loukkos Marshes. These populations are between 80 and 110 mm in length with an average weight of 32.12 grams in the Gharb region, and between 60 and 100 mm in size with an average weight of 14.3 grams in the Low Loukkos Marshes. The comparison with a previous study in 2015 showed no significant change in the distribution of size and weight classes of the Gharb population relative to the present 2017 study.

A condensed Mid-Upper Devonian succession of the Tafilalt (Anti-Atlas) contains numerous red carbonate intervals. Bioclastic tempestites form a transition between an outer shelf and a hemipelagic setting. The red pigmentation is not related to the abundance of detrital iron oxides, but to the presence of iron bacteria and fungi. They form bioconstructions remarkably similar to those previously described in the Jurassic Ammonitico Rosso from Italy and Spain. Thus, dysaerobic microenvironments are proposed and not oxic conditions for these Fe-poor sediments.

The dump truck was hauling between six and seven tons of gravel from a job site at the time. The truck suffered damage to its front end as well as some operational damage and was missing its headlight on the its right side. The 59-year-old driver was not injured, but was shaken after the crash, said John Morroco, operations manager for the city.

The anthology is an introduction to political cultures in the Islamic world and into relations between the West and Islam. It details its analysis in country studies on Algeria, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, Central Asia and Pakistan.

Colas reviews book (Hurst, 2001) by Richard Pennell, \"an informed and comprehensive survey of existing literature on the historiography of modern Morocco.\"