Most of the property lies in the nearby desert and mountains covering more than 322,000 square feet. Many sets from the filming of various movies remain Advertisements
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Ancient Sabratha – The archaeological site in Sabratha
Sabratha’s port was established, perhaps about 500 BC, a Phoenician trading-post that served as an outlet for the products of the African hinterland, Sabratha was part of the short-lived Numidian Kingdom of Massinissa before being Romanized and rebuilt in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. The city was badly damaged by earthquakes during the 4th century, particularly […]
University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez
The oldest existing, continually operating higher educational institution in the world according to UNESCO and is occasionally referred to as the oldest university by scholars. It was founded by Fatima al-Fihri in 859, which subsequently became one of the leading spiritual and educational centers of the historic Muslim world. Incorporated into Morocco’s modern state university system in […]
Muammar Gaddafi died in Sirte
Muammar Gaddafi, the deposed leader of Libya, was captured and killed on 20 October 2011 during the Battle of Sirte. Gaddafi was found hiding in a culvert west of Sirte and captured by National Transitional Council forces. A graphic video of his last moments show rebel fighters beating him and one of them sodomizing him with a […]
Ibn Battuta – The final place in Tangier
The great explorer born into a family of Islamic legal scholars in Tangier, Morocco, on 25 February 1304, during the reign of the Marinid dynasty. His family belonged to a Berber tribe known as the Lawata. As a young man, he would have studied at a Sunni Maliki madh’hab the Islamic jurisprudence school, the dominant form of […]
