Aiwa is Jordanian as well.....

،بسم الله
another week has gone by. There weren't too many interesting things going on this week. I opted to pass on a trip to Chefchaouen. A city known for three things, it is the holy city, the blue city, and the hash capital of the world. Instead I went to Azrou, a city that has many members of the Peace Corps there. While I was there with my friend Mounir, he told my quite some things about Morocco.
This country is split in two like most countries. On the one hand side you have the beautiful and rich big cities like Rabat, Casablanca, and Marrakech; but on the other side there is the country side, which many times still needs a lot of work. These areas are the places, where one might not find running water, or high literacy rates. But to my surprise there is another problem that cuts through society here. Only the minority actually speaks classical Arabic here. Most of the Moroccans speak derija, and only the educated elite knows how to express themselves in MSA. More people possess a high degree of French knowledge. Clearly to be associated with French colonialism. What baffled me was that the newspapers and eveyrhting in print is in Modern Standard Arabic nonetheless.
Another thing this country inherited from the French, is a law that prohibits non-Muslims to enter Mosques. The French enforced this law in order to prevent its soldiers from converting to Islam. But somehow this law infiltrated the consciousness of the people, which now believes that the Qur'an says that non-Muslims are not allowed in Mosques. A quite interesting phenomenon.

This weekend will be amazing though. I will be going to either Tangier, Chefchaouen, or Rabat.

Ma Salama