Morocco Road Trip - El Jadida summer 2015 الجديدة - المغرب
El Jadida is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in the province of El Jadida. It has a population of 144,440. From the sea, El Jadida's old city has a very un-Moorish appearance; it has massive Portuguese walls of hewn stone.
The Portuguese Fortified City of Mazagan was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, on the basis of its status as an outstanding example of the interchange of influences between European and Moroccan cultures and as an early example of the realisation of the Renaissance ideals integrated with Portuguese construction technology. According to UNESCO,[2] the most important buildings from the Portuguese period are the cistern, and the Manueline Church of the Assumption.
The city, and particularly its neighbouring town of Sidi Bouzid, becomes extremely busy in the summer season with an influx of mainly Moroccan holiday-makers.
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Portuguese City of Mazagan (El Jadida) (UNESCO/NHK)
The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a fortified colony on the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. It was taken over by the Moroccans in 1769. The fortification with its bastions and ramparts is an early example of Renaissance military design. The surviving Portuguese buildings include the cistern and the Church of the Assumption, built in the Manueline ...
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EL JADIDA CITY | VERY BEAUTIFUL BEACHES
El Jadida (Berber: Maziɣen, ⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⴻⵏ, Arabic: الجديدة or مازيغن, Portuguese: Mazagão) is a port city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, located 106 km south of the city of Casablanca in the region of Doukkala-Abda and the province of El Jadida. It has a population of 194,934 (2014 census).[1] From the sea, El Jadida's old city has a very un-Moorish appearance; it has massive Portuguese walls of hewn sto
Manueline cistern of the El Jadida fortress.
Ramparts of El Jadida
The Portuguese Fortified City of Mazagan was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, on the basis of its status as an outstanding example of the interchange of influences between European and Moroccan cultures and as an early example of the realisation of the Renaissance ideals integrated with Portuguese construction technology. According to UNESCO,[3] the most important buildings from the Portuguese period are the cistern, and the Manueline Church of the Assumption.
The city, and particularly its neighboring town of Sidi Bouzid, becomes extremely busy in the summer season with an influx of mainly Moroccan holiday-makers. Nearby is the five-star resort complex of Mazagan, which attracts the Moroccan elite as well as many international visitors from the Persian Gulf as well as from Europe and beyond. Mazagan has a golf course designed by Gary Player, casino, nightclub and restaurants. Between Mazagan and El Jadida is the Pullman Hotel, attached to which is Royal Golf El Jadida, another 18-hole course. The presence of nearby ports and factories is responsible for the pollution of El Jadida's beaches.
At present, the city's main exports are beans, almonds, maize, chickpeas, wool, hides, wax and eggs. It imports cotton, sugar, tea and rice. The city is expanding as of 2014, partly as a result of increased activity at the nearby Jorf Lasfar port and industrial area.
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Cité Portugaise and El Jadida
El Jadida is located just south of Casablanca on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. In the early 1500s the Portuguese took control of the town and built a fortified medina called Mazagan called Cite Portugaise by the locals. Mazagan is noted by UNESCO as an outstanding example of the interchange of influences between European and Moroccan cultures and as an early example of the realization of the Renaissance ideals integrated with Portuguese construction technology. The ramparts are some of the most interesting in Morocco and are great fun for the local kids to jump off of. There are several other interesting sites within the walled medina including the five sided lighthouse (now the minaret of the grand mosque), the Church of the Assumption, the communal bakery and the impressive Portuguese Cistern which was used in George Orwell's film Othello.
6 Viaggio in Marocco El Jadida Morocco travel guide video Marco Pistolozzi con Avventure nel Mondo
Cosa vedere nel viaggio in Marocco. El Jadida (in arabo: الجديدة o مازيغن, ejjdida; in berbero ⵎⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵏ, Mazaɣan) è una città del Marocco, nella provincia omonima, nella regione di Casablanca-Settat. La città fortificata portoghese di Mazagan è stata dichiarata dall'UNESCO nel 2004 patrimonio dell'Umanità, come eccezionale esempio di interscambio culturale tra la cultura europea e quella marocchina.
Secondo l'UNESCO, gli edifici più importanti del periodo della dominazione portoghese sono la cisterna e la chiesa dell'Assunzione in stile manuelino.
El Jadida (Arabic: الجديدة or مازيغن, ejjdida; Berber ⵎⴰⵣⴰⵖⴰⵏ, Mazaɣan) is a city of Morocco, in the homonymous province, in the Casablanca-Settat region. The Portuguese fortified city of Mazagan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, as an outstanding example of cultural exchange between the European and Moroccan culture.
According to UNESCO, the most important buildings of the period of Portuguese rule are the cistern and the Assumption Church in the Manueline style.
El Jadida city الجديدة port
#El_Jadida (Arabic: الجديدة# , in Berber: Maziɣen, #Mazighen , ⵎⴰⵣⵉⵗⴻⵏ) also called #Mazagan, is a coastal city of #Morocco, 96 km from Casablanca, prefecture of the province of El #Jadida. A fortified city, built by the Portuguese at the beginning of the sixteenth century and named Mazagan (Mazagão in Portuguese), was taken by the Moroccans in 1769. The fortifications of the Portuguese city, with their bastions and ramparts, constitute an early example of the Portuguese military architecture of the Renaissance. Portuguese buildings still visible are the Portuguese cistern, the Portuguese fortress of Mazagan and the Church of the Assumption, built in the Manueline style. They offer an exceptional testimony to the cross-influences between the European and Moroccan cultures. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the city burst out of the ramparts of the Portuguese city. Today, it extends far beyond what is no more than a historic island on the Atlantic. from an altitude of 28 m.
Mazagan
The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a fortified colony on the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century. It was taken over by the Moroccans in 1769. The fortification with its bastions and ramparts is an early example of Renaissance military design. The surviving Portuguese buildings include the cistern and the Church of the Assumption, built in the Manueline style of late Gothic architecture. The Portuguese City of Mazagan - one of the early settlements of the Portuguese explorers in West Africa on the route to India - is an outstanding example of the interchange of influences between European and Moroccan cultures, well reflected in architecture, technology, and town planning.
Emma Dancing at the Portuguese Festival
Emma and the Paula Lopes School of Dance at the Portuguese Wine and Food Festival organised by the Catholic Church in Malvern
Anouar Majid - The Post-Andalusian Condition
The Post-Andalusian Condition
Islam and the Rise of the West
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn
Anouar Majid, Director of the Center for Global Humanities, Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications, and Professor of English at the University of New England
In this lecture, Anouar Majid expands Edward Said’s notion of Orientalism and extends it back to the Late Middle Ages, when the Andalusian order, characterized by a fragile coexistence among members of different religions, was upended by a crusading Christian spirit and the rise of a Western hegemonic worldview that allowed no room for alternatives. Such a world system forced Muslims and other non-Western traditions into a defensive mode, fighting back by deploying indigenous traditions. Even as European powers pursued their expansionist agenda in the name of freedom, Muslims fought for their independence by rallying their people against Western imperialism. As a result of this uneven struggle, Muslims found strength in orthodoxies that have only made their condition worse and continue to bedevil the world order today.
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Anouar Majid is the Director of the Center for Global Humanities, Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications, and Professor of English at the University of New England, and the Founding Director of the Tangier Global Forum in Morocco. He is the author of five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West, including Unveiling Traditions (Duke University Press, 2000), Freedom and Orthodoxy (Stanford University Press, 2004), A Call for Heresy (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), We Are All Moors (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and Islam and America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012; 2015). Majid has given lectures in many countries and has appeared on American, Moroccan, French, and Dutch television programs. He is a novelist, the author of Si Yussef, and is the editor of Tingis, a free online magazine dedicated to a new study of Islam and its history.
Sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Global Studies Program; and the Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication Department
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Ethiopia (; Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, listen ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk listen ), is a country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 102 million inhabitants, Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populous nation on the African continent. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.Some of the oldest skeletal evidence for anatomically modern humans has been found in Ethiopia. It is widely considered as the region from which modern humans first set out for the Middle East and places beyond. According to linguists, the first Afroasiatic-speaking populations settled in the Horn region during the ensuing Neolithic era. Tracing its roots to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia's governmental system was a monarchy for most of its history. In the first centuries AD, the Kingdom of Aksum maintained a unified civilization in the region, followed by the Ethiopian Empire circa 1137. During the late 19th-century Scramble for Africa, Ethiopia was one of two nations to retain its sovereignty from long-term colonialism by a European colonial power. Many newly-independent nations on the continent subsequently adopted its flag colours. The country was occupied by Italy in 1936 and became Italian Ethiopia (part of the Italian East Africa) until 1941. Ethiopia was also the first independent member from Africa of the 20th-century League of Nations and the United Nations. In 1974, the Ethiopian monarchy under Haile Selassie was overthrown by the Derg, a communist military government backed by the Soviet Union. In 1987, the Derg established the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, but it was overthrown in 1991 by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, which has been the ruling political coalition since.
Ethiopia and Eritrea use the ancient Ge'ez script, which is one of the oldest alphabets still in use in the world. The Ethiopian calendar, which is approximately seven years and three months behind the Gregorian calendar, co-exists alongside the Borana calendar. A majority of the population adheres to Christianity (mainly the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and P'ent'ay), whereas around a third follows Islam (primarily Sunni). The country is the site of the Migration to Abyssinia and the oldest Muslim settlement in Africa at Negash. A substantial population of Ethiopian Jews, known as Bete Israel, also resided in Ethiopia until the 1980s. Ethiopia is a multilingual nation with around 80 ethnolinguistic groups, the four largest of which are the Oromo, Amhara, Somali and Tigrayans. Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. Additionally, Omotic languages are spoken by ethnic minority groups inhabiting the southern regions. Nilo-Saharan languages are also spoken by the nation's Nilotic ethnic minorities.
The nation is a land of natural contrasts, with its vast fertile west, its forests, and numerous rivers, and the world's hottest settlement of Dallol in its north. The Ethiopian Highlands are the largest continuous mountain ranges in Africa, and the Sof Omar Caves contains the largest cave on the continent. Ethiopia also has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Africa. Additionally, the sovereign state is a founding members of the UN, the Group of 24 (G-24), the Non-Aligned Movement, G-77 and the Organisation of African Unity. Its capital city Addis Ababa serves as the headquarters of the African Union, the Pan African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the United Nations Economic ...