Morocco Pens

28/05/2022

It is believed that living in a foreign country can be unique and challenging at times, especially if you are by yourself and far from your parents and beloved ones. However, this challenge can turn out to be a great, enjoyable, and fruitful experience if one knows how to coexist, be patient, and be...

21/04/2022

Sidi Ifni, Morocco, Omar Bihmidine Though some career men believe that marrying career women is a source of troubles in their married life, others believe that quite the contrary. Others believe that marrying a career woman is beneficial in many respects. Nowadays, with the increasingly soaring expe...

05/03/2022

New York, USA Omar Bihmidine’s article Are Career Women Good for Marriage? (Morocco: Morocco World News, 2012) is an opinion article in which the writer shares his point of view and his colleagues’ when it comes to marrying career women. He declares that many people believe that career women are...

14/02/2022

https://moroccopens.com/three-pills-to-demystify-learning/

13/02/2022

Here is a back story! I have read a book and I have been caught by the verb “demystify” which is obvious in its meaning, but it made me leave my “writer’s block” and start thinking about my teaching philosophy and writing this article! Of course, teaching exists to serve learning! And lear...

16/01/2022

Mudgil Dermatology, P.C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYCiErbyG3Y&list=PLe6GLNPYKP2rlnR6c9MLHKmwjVjjOzRf1&index=17

13/01/2022

https://moroccopens.com/classroom-community-to-restore-faith-in-public-schools/

13/01/2022

Rabat, Morocco Since its independence in 1956, the Moroccan educational system has been pulling out all the stops to make a reform that would be truly satisfying. The post-colonial era was highly precarious because it gave rise to the unprecedented demand of improving an educational policy that woul...

12/01/2022

12/01/2022

https://moroccopens.com/a-second-chance/

12/01/2022

New York, USA Casablanca, Morocco, on the 25th of July 2010. The weather was cold with a brisk, heavy breeze as if you were walking down a busy street in New York City on Christmas day. After a long gloomy night, the shiny, beautiful morning arrived at 5:15 a.m. The closer one …

06/12/2021

https://moroccopens.com/how-to-apologize/

This two-episode special is based on a course that Dr. Harriet Lerner and I did together on her groundbreaking book, Why Won’t You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts. You can expect authentic, hard conversations (and one helluva role play) about making mistakes, healing hurts, an...

05/12/2021

Guelmim, Morocco I have recently had the opportunity to reflect on the controversial issue of the Moroccan educational system, and its successive failure that has negatively influenced the social lives of people in Morocco. This process of reflection was prompted by my strong concern about the field...

04/07/2021

https://moroccopens.com/you-were-perfectly-fine-and-just-a-little-one/?fbclid=IwAR0S8sCsL7JDaTv73gxutAjrsmBpN9GWBIqdF968u0qikKbxEZN9z-Wc-dM

15/06/2021

New York, USA Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, once proclaimed that there is nothing permanent in this world except change; it is change that is permanent. Change can come in both good and bad forms. This change sometimes can be very rapid. Take you, for example; try to vividly remember how your ent...

04/05/2021

Introduction The impacts of the rapid spread of the COVID -19 pandemic are affecting various fields worldwide. All people in this world confront many challenges in carrying out the normal activities of them because of the impacts of COVID – 19 in diverse ways on society around the world. When we t...