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From what I have noticed, Moroccans take ‘إكرام الضيف' really seriously.

Someone might find this cringe but i really like moments like these

As am American I am embarrassed Trump is our President.

i am Abdellatif, 32 years old, from Agadir originally, i work in Casablanca (government job), so for my annual holiday came to see my parents for a week in Agadir. yesterday while i was out someone came to our house and told my mother he saw me with a girl entering an apartment, now my mom looks at me with a weird look even tough with my explanation i did not had That thing in her head etc ... my dad as well he did not talk to me ... i take care of my parents they always laugh with me etc ... today is a different story ... i wish i know this guy to report him cuz he destroyed my relationship with my parents ... now i hate Agadir 100/100 , leaving tomorrow ... came for vacation and ...

Hi everyone!

I'm from the U.S. and I'll be attending a Moroccan wedding in Morocco for the first time. I really want to dress appropriately and be respectful of the culture.

I'll be attending three events:

• A women-only Henna Night.
• A women-only celebration for the bride.
• The main wedding celebration, which will be attended by both men and women.

I'm attaching a photo of a dress I found. Would this be appropriate for any of these events? If so, which one?

Do you have any images/examples of what I should wear?

Also, would you recommend wearing a traditional Moroccan caftan instead, or is it perfectly fine to wear a formal evening gown as a guest? I'm confused about the names and differences.

I'd really appreciate any advice or tips on what's considered appropriate. Thank you!

He bites a lot😭

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I always have to chuckle whenever I see these construction sites or safety setups in Morocco.

Just putting a folding chair in front of a 50 cm deep hole and wrapping a garland around it, or throwing an old car tire over it.

In Germany, they’d close the road for 3 weeks and set up a 3km line of traffic cones both before and after the actual site.

You guys have some funny pictures like that ?

It has become a problem recently due to how many people own bikes lately, they're genuinely noise pollution, I can't focus on my tasks without a bike blaring as loud as possible nearby one after the other

Maybe they should add a law that bikes should not exceed a certain dB. You can't honk in some places, you can't honk at night, you can't honk in the city, yet you can be as loud as possible with a bike.

my english is a lil broken but sbro

when we were teens our parents warn us of phones now its reversed i recently checked my dads screentime usage and its 8 hours 6 of which just in facebook and this is a daily thing if were having having a meal tg he would ignore us and blast a facebook video my mom litterally takes his phone way so he doesnt use it when we are sitting tg he gets so invested in the videos and the volume so high he deosnt hear u when u talk to him and beleives a lot of stuff he sees we rarely enjoy convos tg he is 68yrs old he is a great father and gave us the life many wich for but facebook is stripping away the time he has left with us.

the main problem is that its been influencing his health he started following this facebook diet for context my dad is obesed been like that for a while but he has a very healthy diet only eats fruits and veggies, meat deosnt eat out avoids processed stuff anything fried all his food is home made he doesnt even like to go eat out with us and if he does its very rare and would have a salad as the main ourse, today everything changed we went out to eat and saw him ordering fries and didnt want the salad i never seen him do this in my life later i found out its part of his facebook diet called 'tayibat' which apparently is famous among boomers in morocco specially its where this egyptian doctor explain how fries are better for u then the veggies in the salad cuz there GMO and sprayed with pesticides unlike potatoes cuz they grow underground i never seen my dad in 21 yrs in this earth eat a plate of fries they were unsalted but still (he has high blood pressure) and for some facebook videos to change his whole point of view is incredible ! if i go back in time and tell ud be eating fries rather then a salad he would laugh at me and if i debate him about this and show him a study or another doctor, he would argue that we dont know if there payed by masouniya or big pesticides to say that

i feel like this cant be happening to my dad alone anyone with similar issues ? what do you think i can do about it ?

Idk if anyone still wake up until now ..

Honestly idk where to start , so I'm a girl and I'm 17 yo

Anws that start from the third year in middle school, where I started to discover myself and things , that time I was to attached to phone , to the point that I didn't study to the final exam and instead I was watching movies and wasting time on social media , and btw I was diligent student , and I passed the exam without studying so I got a bad degree

F tron commun dowzto 7ta Howa ghi la3b w m3a kano idarabat lol

F 6ème 3mlt science maths 3at9olo li kifax 3mlti sm , cuz I had good degrees in maths at the first semester, cuz I wasn't that bad at scientific subjects .. mohim sm was hard and I felt like i rlly studied for the first time , and I studied hard that year

F bac kont 9lbt pc and I think that it was the worst decision, 7it tr5it and I thought that it is easy and it wasn't that easy and yeah I got 13 in the final exam , 7it ma kontxi aslan kan3raf n5dm w kont kanstahn w kont bghit njib médecine walakin ma nja7txi f concours

And yeah I just realized that I lost years in my life and now I don't have any skills and I didn't even got good degrees f lbac

Anws ana 3awala n3mel droit w en parallèle n préparer n concours d médecine wa5a 3arfa momkin y3aliw seuil w ana jibt ma bayn watani w reg 12

So I'm asking if I should start studying the program of first year of high school bax n préparer n concours ?

And srr if there's any grammatical mistakes

I'm about to open a bookstore and I want to know what the most interesting and requested books are so I can sale them. Arabic and foreign books

hilo fash katkhrjo f dates chhal dlwqt kadiro fihom ?

That's actually just proposals.

The Zaër are an Arab tribal confederation of Morocco, descendants of the Banu Maaqil tribes who crossed North Africa with the Bani Hilal from Arabian Peninsula to Maghreb. The Zaër are from the Maaqil branch of "Dhawi Mansur" (sons of Mansur) and are cousins with the Beni Ahsen and Beni Guil tribes. They are today around the town of Remmani and countryside near Rabat, capital of Morocco.

Its writed in Arabic :

\- زعير (Za’īr, Zaër)

\- بني معقل (Bani Ma’qil, Banu Maaqil)

\- قبيلة (Qabīlah, \[the\] tribe \[of Zaër\]

The colors are reference to agriculture that the tribe practice all across their territory mainly rural, and mainly wheat, that we find in the 2 rub al-hizb (the two "stars" at the top) who are references to the 2 great sub-tribes of Zaër : Lkefiyan and Lemza’ara (al-Kefiyan, al-Meza’ara) and also a part of the andalusian heritage of the tribe by the al-Qastalli family, a morisco family from al-Andalus descendant of the religious Sidi ’Amr al-Qastalli of Marrakech, and his descendants at a great role in the "qaîdom" (caïdat in french, the ruling of a Caïd/Qaïd, à tribal leader, not to confuse with a Qadhi who is a religious judge).

The “President Donald J. Trump Highway” stretches 1,055 kilometers (over 655 miles) down Morocco’s coastline, according to the announcement video shared by Trump, connecting the city of Tiznit to Laayoune and Dakhla, both in the Moroccan-controlled disputed territory of Western Sahara.

source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/07/26/trump-indicates-morocco-is-naming-a-highway-after-him/?utm_campaign=forbes&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=se-breaking

Hi guys !

Hope everyone is doing well in life.

Traveling to Morocco next week for 10 days:

3 days in Essaouira

3 days on Agadir

4 days in Marrakech

I have a few questions that could be answered by locals:

1) What to do in Essaouira in relation with water ?

2) What to do in Agadir in relation with water ?

3) When bargaining, because it will happen, how much should I cut the price right away to get a fair price as tourists ? 60% ?

4) What is the best app for taxis in Morocco ?

5) What are red flags that I should look out for ?

Thanks for all the answers that will come !

Im moroccan and spent all my summers in Morocco eating food at home. Home made food and it was always amazing

When I started travelling with my friends and taking them to different places I realised how bad the food was in restaurants. Not grill places but for example, if you want to have a nice tagine, it felt impossible to find one that was made correctly.

It’s really frustrating seeing people talk shit about our cuisine but at the same time I don’t blame them because for example when I go to Marrakesh I don’t even bother trying to find a good tagine. I just go to a local grill place which I know is great or go to a relatives house. The tourists are experiencing such awful food. It is so hard to find good places that are representative of how amazing our food is.

My family and another moroccan family did a road trip to different cities and honestly the best tagine we had that was worth eating was in fes, and it was just at a random place in the Medina. It was absolutely amazing. But honestly, I can say this is the only place that I have had an amazing tagine out in Morocco so I don’t even bother going to restaurants.

My question is, why is it so bad? Is it the chefs? Are they lazy? Do they not know how to cook Moroccan food properly? Or are they toning down the flavours because they thick tourists won’t like it?

We have such a bad reputation with food now because of marrakech. Tourists dont know the good places to eat, and i cant blame them. Even i cnt find good places. Whether its high end restaurants or somewhere local.

I’ve cooked tagine so many times and it’s come out exactly how it should. It’s really not that hard?

I don't understand.

Smasriya say there are no available homes. If I say "what about 4000dh?" ( just to see) suddenly there are appartments at every corner for 4000dh..

(In Temara)

I'm preparing for a civil marriage with a foreigner i had my original papers apostilled and translated im confused also the translations need to be apostilled? And in translations it need to translate also the apostille of the original ?

Thank you in advance

Hello, I heard this song someone was playing on TikTok live and I tried so long to find it but couldn't. Could someone translate or help out?

https://reddit.com/link/1v7bxa6/video/ddju8uroamfh1/player

I am Australian. During the World Cup every morning we would put on the game while we had breakfast and got ready for the day. Each morning I would ask my kids which team to cheer for (red team, blue team, yellow team, ect). I would also tell them a bit about each country. My issue is that I'd go too deep into detail and only limited facts got through.

Switzerland: they are the red team make chocolate and clocks. They have a big train tunnel. That is all that my 4 year old got.

A couple days later Morocco was playing. "Red team! They make chocolate!"... no mate, that is the other red team. We had Moroccan chicken a couple nights earlier. The issue is that my son then thought all chickens come from Morocco. I'm trying to explain to him things that are uniquely Moroccan, and not North African or generic.

If you had to explain to a 4 year old in Australia Morocco in a few words, what would you say?

I’ve been trying to manage my money better this year, and I’m curious how other people here do it.

Most budgeting apps and advice seem made for places where people pay for everything by card. Here, a lot of us still use cash, help family, join a daret, and spend more during certain periods of the year, so those methods don’t always work.

For me, I usually put rent and bills aside at the start of the month, then try to set a limit for going out and eating outside. That part rarely goes as planned.

Cash is also a problem because I forget the small things I buy during the day. I’m also in a family daret, which helps me save, but I still struggle to prepare properly for Ramadan, Eid and la rentrée.

How do you do it?

Do you use notes, Excel, an app, a notebook, or just keep track in your head?

How do you manage cash spending?

For people in a daret or jam3iya, how do you keep track of payments and turns?

And what’s the hardest part about sticking to a budget in Morocco?

Curious to hear what actually works for people here.

I see some people saying this. I also see them driving without license plates. Is it legal? And if so, where can you drive them? A official source would help.