MEKNES, Morocco (AFP) — Dozens of Jews traveled to the Moroccan city of Meknes this week for the first pilgrimage of its kind since the 1960s, after the Muslim kingdom restored the city’s Jewish ...

Around 60 km west and less than an hour away from the much more popular city of Fes in Morocco, Meknes is a city that should figure in the itinerary of a Moroccan adventure, but usually doesn’t. And ...

Meknes is ordinary Morocco, but you wouldn't want to miss it.iStock We visit places because they're famous. Or because they have a famous attraction, or restaurants lauded on social media, or simply ...

Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital under Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), the founder of the Alawite dynasty. The sultan turned it into a ...