MARWAN, the #Moroccan#Research & #Education#Network, recently welcomed a significant #connectivity upgrade from Rabat to London, where it peers with the GÉANT network with onward traffic to other R&E networks around the world.
Claiming descent of a #saint, Lalla Aicha enjoyed her early life in the 1500s. But the Spaniards had forced her family, originally from Grenada, into exile & she vowed #revenge.
Married at 16, she became governor of Tétouan, Morroco. After her first husband’s death, she married a sultan.
Together with pirate Barbarossa, she soon ruled the #Mediterranean Sea.
She was known as Sayyida al-Hurra - the Free Lady.
#Israeli, #Moroccan agricultural collaboration could make Africa bloom (ah, yes ‘make the desert green’ where did we hear that recently?) @israel@morocco