The fifth edition of the Amazigh festival for films and documentaries will be held between June and October 9, 2011 in Agadir. Like last year, this edition is devoted to introduction to documentary film and other parts of the world. Guest of honor this year is filmmaker Cesar Galindo of Peru. He has made ​​several films about Latin America. It also looks at the developments in Libya and the role of film.

I had finally succumbed to my husband ‘s urging to give surfing a go and since Morocco has world-class surfing spots, we planned to set off together for a 10-day surfing tour there. We set about searching for a surf tour company to arrange the details and found Surf Maroc, a small company that was set up a decade ago by two Englishmen, Oliver Boswell and Ben O’Hara, who spent their university holidays surfing in Morocco and saw a market for surf camps. Having recently added the upmarket Villa Mandala to it’s two original hotels (l’auberge and Taghazout villa) in Agadir, Surf Moroc is, as far as we could tell, one of very few upmarket surf holiday options in Morocco.

In 1540, Sheikh Mohammed, the founder of the dynasty Saadi, releases the city from the yoke of the Agadir Portugal. He then undertook the construction of the Kasbah of Agadir. Located 230 m high on a hill overlooking the source "founty", the Kasbah is also used as a granary.

Agadir Says Ramadan Kareem To All!

As Hassan moves gracefully across the stage dressed in doublet and hose, he emerges from the shadows and is reflected against the dark background of the former kasbah of Tiznit. The dim lights and sound effects used in Tinu, a choreographed play based on the collection of short stories by the Amazigh writer Mohamed Ouagrar, add to a sense of history.

After the play ends, the audience at this year's Timitar festival in Agadir, Morocco, bursts in to spontaneous applause, standing up to express approval of the way this production promotes the cultural significance of the Berber people.

More modern than you might expect, there's still the romance of the kasbahs:

Forget Hollywood clichcs of Morocco as a burning desert with scattered oases peopled by exotic tribes, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer and Humphrey Bogart. No, there isn't a Rick's Cafe. Not that there aren't places reminiscent of these exotic images; some of the oases are poignantly romantic with the looming architecture of the ksour (the fortified villages of the Berber tribes) and the kasbahs (the castles of notable tribesmen), granting Morocco a unique quality of timelessness. Yet Morocco contains more, from the mighty Atlas mountain range to the scenic coastal vistas overlooking the Atlantic.

The Argan trees of Agadir:

One of  the  stranger sights of  the  Souss and  surrounding coastal region is goats browsing among the branches of spiny, knotted Argan trees, a species similar to the olive that is found    only    in    this    region.   Though    some younger  goatherds  seem to have a    sideline    in    charging    tourists    to    take    photographs,    the    actual    object    of    the    exercise    is    to    let    the    goats    eat    the    outer,    fleshy    part    of    the    Argan fruit.    The    hard,    inner    nut    is    then    cracked    open    and    the    kernel    crushed    to    extract    the    expensive    oil.