Figuig Palm Grove Harvest and Water Heritage: a seasonal guide

Figuig is not one picturesque ksar multiplied seven times. Each fortified community has its own lanes, thresholds, memory and relationship to the palm gardens, while water ties the oasis together through springs, basins, channels and social rules. This two-day circuit deliberately slows the sequence: three or four ksour on the first day, the remaining communities and a water-focused garden walk on the second. The road is always local-guide led, with interior access negotiated rather than assumed.

Atalayoun is the place to read Marchica as water, shore and planned waterfront in the same walk. From the peninsula, changing angles reveal the lagoon's scale, Nador's urban edge and Gourougou behind it. The activity should be a paced public-realm circuit led by a birding or landscape guide, not an implication that every marina, hotel or private development is open. Stops can cover lagoon restoration, water exchange, wintering birds and the choices involved in developing a sensitive shoreline.

أحفير مدينةُ سوقٍ في المشرق، قريبةٌ من بركان ومن الطريق إلى الحدود الجزائرية، مركزٌ فلاحيّ نابض يجذب سوقُه الأسبوعيّ قرى السهل المجاور لتبادل الماشية والمحصول والأنباء.

Angad is a guaranteed-origin wine appellation in Morocco’s Eastern wine region. Its inclusion broadens the beverage map beyond Meknes and Casablanca while avoiding a common mistake: an appellation is not a brand and does not prove that a restaurant’s unnamed pour comes from the zone.

The Maghreb Film Festival makes Oujda a meeting point for feature and short films from across the region, with screenings accompanied by discussion, competition and professional exchange.

This programme links two internationally recognized wetland systems without pretending they are interchangeable. Marchica offers broad lagoon water, urban edges and peninsula viewpoints; the Moulouya estuary adds river mouth, dunes, salt influence and a more open coastal setting.