VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Immigrants and the Army of Trials and Tribulations By Abdelhafid Missouri By Abdelhafid-Missouri If you are an immigrant and you are going through trials and tribulations, you have the following to blame: 1-    You were not born rich: Had you been born rich and wealthy, you would not have immigrated. The rich and wealthy... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Moroccan-Community-around-the World By Abdelhafid Missouri Moroccan immigrants are alone. They are immigrants; that is, the weather has got too cold, the environment too unfriendly, the courts too unjust, the hospitals bloody, corruption base and vile, humanity so cheap. Each immigrant is a fugitive waging many a battle... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) American-Ideology-and-Public opinion By Abdelhafid Missouri Ideology is a set of ideas and beliefs about political values and the role of government in people’s lives. In the United States, two major schools of political thought are dominant: liberalism and conservatism. However, the United States is a multi-ethnic and multi-racial... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) the-American-Political-Culture By Abdelhafid-Missouri By Abdelhafid Missouri In Chapter II, The Political Process, we will study: Part 1: The American Political Culture. Part 2: American Ideology and Public Opinion. Part 3: Political Parties. Let us study Part1: The American Political Culture. Political culture is how we think government... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Security-Concern-Over-Small planes By Abdelhafid-Missouri Aviation security experts have voiced their concern that small planes may be used as terror weapons. Calls to reconsider security lapses in the nation’s 19.000 general airports come as a response to the criminal act perpetrated this past Thursday February 18th, 2010, by Joe Stack,... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Fedralism By Abdelhafid Missouri, In the Part 2 we studied the Constitution. In part 3 of chapter I (the American System), today we are going to study Federalism. Federalism in general revolves around the distribution of authority between a central government and regional governments according to the provisions of the Constitution. The... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Obama-Bensalem-Hamich By Abdelhafid-Missouri An Open Government Directive by President Obama entitled: MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES, posted   on the White House website blog on December 8th, 2009 directs executive Departments and Agencies to apply the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration.... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)The-US-Constitution Abdelhafid-Missouri Last week we started chapter I and looked at principles of government in Part 1. We learnt that government is a political institution that makes and enforces laws, and that political power is used to affect who governs and for what purpose. We also looked at forms of government, and foundations of democracy... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) The-American-system By Abdelhafid Missouri Chapter I: The American System of government 1- Principles of Government I am honored indeed to be able to provide the immigrant community in the USA and elsewhere a general overview of US government and politics. While some of us who embark on this immigrant journey are armed with sufficient... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Moroccan-American-Organizations By Abdelhafid Missouri Abdelhafeed-Missouri In the past few years, Moroccans abroad sought to build and raise the profile of their community. In that process, they made remarkable efforts and deployed immense energies to organize cultural events, conferences, and meetings. The prodding for this community mobilization... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) Moroccans-Around-The-World By Abdelhafid Missouri Reading an article on hespress.com, I was triggered by ardor to stand in defense of the Moroccan community in the Diaspora. I was disgusted that some journalists in Morocco have shamelessly given full rein to their vilification of our community, said jokes about them, and with a cheap... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) The-Pursuit-of-Happiness By Abdelhafeed Missouri Abdelhafeed-Missouri In the course of the last few months, I looked with deep concern at the state of the Arab peoples, how they have fallen into a deep abyss of servility and bondage, how their efforts towards liberation from tyranny and abuse of power have been vain, and how their energies... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 4.4/5 (5 votes cast) Essaouira-sex-scandal By: Abdelhafid Missouri Abdelhafeed-Missouri When Hope Witsell, a 13-year-old girl from a rural Florida suburb learned that the topless photo she texted to a boy she liked had made the rounds at school, she took her life. At school, insults the like of “whore” and “slut” were flung at her from everywhere. The... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Abdelhafeed-Missouri By: Abdelhafid Missouri When the British government enroached on the personal freedoms and rights of the settlers in America and imposed on them several harsh tax and trade policies such as the stamp act to assert their authority over the new colonies, these latter organized the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast) Solidarity-with-the-Migrant Abdelhafeed-Missouri By: Abdelhafid Missouri It is now 2010, a new year. Let us begin it with a vigil for peace and well-being for humanity on earth for the millions of neglected or abandoned children around the world, men, women, and children caught up in the crossfire of armed conflicts. Let us dedicate our vigil... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (1 vote cast)Funds-Not-On-The-Record By Abdelhafid Missouri Browsing through Arab media tonight Wednesday December 30th, 2009, I decided to take a look at the Algerian echoroukonline, written in Arabic. To the upper left corner of the page was a video by Aminatou Haidar thanking the Algerian government and people for their support during her self-imposed... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 5.0/5 (2 votes cast) Moroccan-Americans Abdelhafeed-Missouri By: Abdelhafid Missouri \ Morocco Post Philadelphia PA This article is a call to Moroccan community activists and members to develop a long-term strategy for empowerment based on a number of criteria and political tools. Let us first define empowerment. It is that stage of maturity when an individual... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 4.3/5 (4 votes cast)Aminatou-Haidar's-Game Abdelhafeed-Missouri Some time ago during a TV program on al-Jazeera, I heard the host angrily saying to one of his guests who spoke favorably of the US saying that the situation in America is so bad that many states have already started to call for independence. What ?!. Such is your habit that fans the flame and... 

VN:F [1.8.4_1055]please wait...Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast)algeria-egypt Abdelhafeed-Missouri  By Abdelhafid Missouri When the Phillies lost to New York Yankees in Philadelphia a few weeks ago consequently losing their title of the national baseball championship, I asked an American friend the following day what he thought of the Phillies’ loss. He said so calmly: It’s alright. The Phillies won...