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	Asilah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Asilah or Arzila (Arabic: أصيلة، أرزيلة‎) is a city situated on the northwest tip of Morocco with a history back to 1500 B.C. The Phoenicians used the city as a trading site.
		In 1692, the town was recaptured by the Moroccans under the leadership of Moulay Ismail.
		Asilah served as a base for pirates in the 19th and 20th centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asilah (207 words)

	The Rehabilitation of Asilah, Morocco
		Asilah is located 42 km southeast of the town of Tangier on the Atlantic coast.
		Though the rehabilitation of Asilah is strongly tied to the personal efforts of two men, a few comparisons can be used to address two key aspects of their project, the participation of the town residents in the project, and the role of tourism and conservation.
		One indication of Asilah's economic growth from the project though is that the town's budget went up from 1.8 million Moroccan dinars in 1978 to 10.9 million dinars in 1989.15 These costs include the maintenance of the town plus the salaries of the city's employees and laborers.
	web.mit.edu /akpia/www/AKPsite/4.239/asilah/asilah.html (4114 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Asilah: Common Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Benaïssa and Melehi selected Asilah as their common ground because it "retains the authentic look of an urban center" and because of "the simplicity of its natural surroundings," they wrote.
		Sharif Raissouni himself, pasha of Asilah from the turn of the century until 1924, never lived in the palace; he was killed just after it was completed.
		Some of the Moroccan artists used the walls of Asilah as their canvas, creating large colorful works with the help of children or the occasional passerby, who stopped to hold a ladder or toss in a work of encouragement.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199401/asilah-common.ground.htm (1509 words)

	Asilah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Asilah has one of the most beautiful old cities of Morocco: well-kept and dramatically situated along the cliffs towards the Atlantic.
		Asilah's economy rests on fishing and trading of cereals, cattle, and sheep.
		Asilah is also the home of the now revived cultural festival, where music, painting and sculpture impregnates the city every August.
	i-cias.com /e.o/asilah.htm (235 words)

	beautiful asilah holiday properties \| terry white \| Fotki.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Asilah is blessed with glorious sandy beaches and even during the winter months benefits from the warm southerly winds that come up the coast from the western Sahara.
		Asilah is a first class base from which to explore the most geographically diverse of all of Morocco’s regions.
		Asilah is an historic coastal Medina town on the warm Atlantic coast of Morocco just 38 kms south of the famous city of Tangiers.
	public.fotki.com /terrywhite/beautiful_asilah (3446 words)

	Asilah, Morocco: Culture in white and blue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Beautiful Asilah is well worth a stop on your Morocco journey, but you should only think of visiting the city in summer time: Winters can be unpleasant so far north in Moroco, and even more when you are so close to the sea.
		Asilah is much of a hangout for artists, and walking around the place you will spot many traces of their activity, like paintings on house walls.
		Asilah is also working on getting visitors to the place through festivals of different kinds, the one in August every year being the best, where artwork and music are the main ingredients.
	i-cias.com /morocco/asila.htm (209 words)

	Aga Khan Award for Architecture - The Fourth Award Cycle, 1987-1989
		Asilah is an ancient coastal town founded in Phoenician times.
		Protection of Asilah's architectural heritage began over 15 years ago with the efforts of the two founding patrons of the cultural association, and other interested intellectuals.
		The jury notes that "from a modest start but with ambitious vision, a few native sons of Asilah took it upon themselves to upgrade the physical and cultural environment of their town.
	www.akdn.org /agency/akaa/fourthcycle/morocco.html (204 words)

	Artistic Festivals, Asilah
		Tourists are attracted throughout the year by Asilah's pleasant climate and centuries-old buildings, but for two months each summer it is the center of one of Africa's most important artistic festivals.
		Headed by Mohammed Benaissa and Mohammed Melehi, the group felt that if Asilah became the hub of worthwhile cultural activity, with support from the local inhabitants, the government would follow suit and upgrade the infrastructure by installing better drainage and improving electrical and water supplies.
		Later in the same year, writers, poets and musicians came to Asilah to participate in the first summer pilgrimage, an event which attracted about 1,000 onlookers, mostly from neighboring towns.
	www.planetware.com /asilah/artistic-festivals-mar-t-fes.htm (497 words)

	Asilah, history of the city, Hotel Guest house, riad villa rental in Morocco, Marrakesh, Essaouira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Balneal city, 46 km to the south of Tangier, with an old medina with white houses (the windows and the doors are painted in blue, yellow and green), girded with beautiful ochre ramparts built in the end of the 15th century by the Portuguese.
		In the beginning of the 20th century, Asilah will become the den of Raissouni, a famous gangster of the Rif region, which held to ransom the populations but will be finally driven out by the Spanish in 1924.
		PS : To see: - The old city and the ramparts, with its Bab Homar gate, bored in a big rounded tower surmounted by an escutcheon of the weapons of the kings of Portugal.
	www.terremaroc.com /news-asilah-asilah-history-of-the-city-news-_45.html (344 words)

	Asilah Home Rental, Cosy, Colourful house overlooking the Atlantic \| PerfectPlaces.com
		Asilah is a picturesque fishing village of Phoenician origins which later became a medival Portuguese trading post.
		The medina of Asilah is a mostly pedestrian town, making it a big, safe playground for children.
		Asilah boasts beautiful, extensive sand beaches that spread out on either side of the town.
	www.perfectplaces.com /a_Villa-Rentals/10470.htm (491 words)

	Africa Stage: Team Dispatch - October 9, 1999
		Once a run-down, rat-infested village, Asilah's living conditions had deteriorated to such an extent that by the mid-1970s a group of local intellectuals decided to save the town.
		Asilah has a permanent population of approximately 20,000, and becomes the site of an annual August festival.
		His next project is to turn a sprawling palace in Asilah into an institute of American studies, where visiting U.S. academics, government officials, members of Congress and artists will participate in two-week seminars to teach Arabs the way the United States really works.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/africa/100999/100999teambenaissa.html (974 words)

	Cool_Pick
		The first cultural "Moussem" of Asilah was set up during the months of July and August 1978, around the existing remains of its historical sacred past.
		And this was why the walls of Asilah were painted in the spring (1978), the first initiative of this kind in Morocco.
		This was Asilah's contribution to a greater awareness of art, vision and imagination.
	www.nas.com /latelier/cool_pick.htm (503 words)

	Mohammed Benaïssa on the Asilah Festival in Morocco
		In 1978, Mohammed Benaïssa and Mohammed Melehi initiated a cultural festival in the Moroccan city of Asilah [or Assilah, see note] that was adapted to Bahrain under the name "Bahrain - Asilah Arts and Culture Forum" in April 2004 (see information).
		We were particularly interested in the aim attached to the Asilah Festival to substantially enhance – in contrast to a cosmetic gloss over – the situation of a city or of a community through art and culture.
		Benaïssa reckoned that there was a one-way road towards the North that led to artists and intellectuals to leave their countries in the hope of being able to attain international recognition.
	www.universes-in-universe.de /islam/eng/2004/03/benaissa (608 words)

	Bahrain - Asilah Arts & Culture Forum, April 2004
		Bahrain’s ruler, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, was so enthused by its character and lasting effect, that he initiated a similar event in his country as a revival of the cultural partnership with Morocco.
		The two founders of the Asilah Festival, Mohammed Benaïssa and Mohammed Melehi, stood by the institutions in Bahrain and the organizer there, Ali Abdulla Khalifa, both in word and deed during the organization of the first "Bahrain - Asilah Arts and Culture Forum".
		According to the catalog, one credo of the organizers is to project creativity as a "focal point of dialogue between people on a background of political openness and democratic reforms that enhance the importance of culture as an instrument of development".
	www.universes-in-universe.de /islam/eng/2004/03/bahrain-asilah (300 words)

	Beachfront Apartments For Sale in Asilah, Morocco - Pre-Release Asilah Beach Resort Phase 2 - Viviun the Leader in ...
		Asilah is an elegant coastal town with a rich history and a population of around 20,000.
		Asilah's fishing port is a pleasant place for a stroll and there are plans for a marina.
		Every year in August, Asilah is home to the annual summer arts festival which is attended by musicians, painters, poets and writers from all over the world.
	www.viviun.com /AD-40401 (879 words)

	APARTMENT RENTING IN ASILAH
		During the day, you can enjoy Asilah’s wonderful sun at any point through the beach between Tanger and Asilah (40kms), with its refreshment stands and pedlars who will make you feel wonderfully.
		For those who love art, you will be able to see many different kind of art in Asilah (in La Medina, you can find a lot of murals painted by artists from all over the world), art galleries or painting studies where the works of the local artists are exhibited (some of them well-known artists).
		Not in vain, in Asilah takes place a cultural Festival which combines intellectuals and artists from different places.
	usuarios.arsystel.com /asilah/apartment_renting_in_asilah.htm (488 words)

	Asilah, Morocco
		The little town of Asilah is situated 40km/25mi from Tangier on the north western tip of Morocco's Atlantic coast.
		Newly-built private houses reproduce the facades of their older neighbors, usually incorporating elements salvaged from the ruins of older structures, such as doorways and arcades.
		During the cultural festival in August, Asilah becomes an enormous gallery where artists exhibit their work in the Pasha Raïssouni palace, the streets, or even on the walls of the town.
	www.planetware.com /morocco/asilah-mar-t-asi.htm (251 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Lives of Shadows: An Illustrated Novel: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Aided by the maid of the former owner, a porter he meets at the railroad station, and his Arabic teacher, he begins the restoration of the house to its former grandeur, a project which takes twenty years.
		The architectural drawings of various rooms and wings, and the sketches of details he plans to restore seem to grow larger and more vibrant while he is asleep, however, and we discover that Asilah, the missing daughter of the former owner, is "helping" with them from her hiding place, connecting psychically with Julian.
		Asilah, and the palace which she explores and describes to us, may or may not exist, but we are willing to accept her existence at face value because we "know" that Julian exists.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0811839265 (1384 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		Then I just recently stumbled upon Asilah as a possible alternative...
		It's right on the train lines from Fez to Tangier, so if it were nice, it would fit into the trip better.
		Asilah is much less touristed than Ess, but its still a very pleasant beach town.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=4&tid=34790865&numresponses=4&start=0 (550 words)

	4 day escape to Morocco
		Visit Tangier, Asilah, Larache, and Fes on a four-days tour, Guaranteed departure every day all year around.
		Early after noon, departure to Asilah, The fortified Portuguese city, 46 kilometers south of Tangiers, on the Atlantic coast.
		Check in at your hotel in Asilah then, visit The Bab Homar, the Berber Kasbah, and the Palace of Raisouli and enjoy the relaxing ambiance and quaint beauty of the town.
	www.arabwebsite.com /EscapeToMorocco.htm (763 words)

	Asilah, Morocco Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
		Asilah, Morocco Surf Forecast, Tides, Surfcam and Sea Conditions
		Asilah in Tanger to Rabat is an exposed beach break that has reasonably consistent surf and can work at any time of the year.
		At the moment, we display the current current weather observations / forecast for Asilah, tide data, sea temperature and a growing list of Surfcams.
	www.surf-forecast.com /breaks/Asilah.shtml (184 words)

	Asilah resort, Zelis Hotel - REDISCOVER THE WORLD - MOROCCO - Tailor made holidays.
		Asilah resort, Zelis Hotel - REDISCOVER THE WORLD - MOROCCO - Tailor made holidays.
		A short journey along the coast highway from Tangier and you can transport yourself into completely different world, Asilah is a small, former Portuguese, town with a Bohemian atmosphere.
		Cultural festivals and art are very important to the people of Asilah, the enticing medina is surrounded by 15th Century ramparts and as well as the rugged rocky coastline there is a beautiful beach.
	www.rediscover.co.uk /asilah.htm (266 words)

	2 Or 3 Bed Penthouse For Sale in Asilah, Tangers Morocco - Magnificent Beachfront Penthouses - Viviun the Leader in ...
		The Mayor of Asilah is also the Moroccan ambassador to the USA and during the late 1970’s this forward thinking gentle man inaugurated an annual summer Arts Festival attended by musicians, painters, poets and writers from all over the world.
		The financial impact of both tourism and the Arts Festival has transformed Asilah and the town is now extremely clean and prosperous.
		Purchasers at the ROYAL ASILAH BEACH RESORT with its ocean front location and diversity of on-site leisure facilities plus its proximity to the Airport and a charming Moroccan town will benefit considerably in terms of escalating property prices as the tourist boom filters through the economy.
	www.viviun.com /AD-46626 (1024 words)

	outsideleft: Music When The Lights Go Out - Asilah, Morocco. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Asilah is a sleepy small town with a good fish restaurant and a spectacular casbah.
		I leave my pals to the joys of Asilah and head towards the bus station where I soon discover, contrary to the helpful timetable on the wall, that I've missed the last bus to Tangier.
		And later that night I'm out alone after midnight walking the dark back streets of Asilah where I meet Mohammed, about 17, who walks back towards the apartment building with be before bidding me goodnight.
	www.outsideleft.com /main.php?updateID=217 (775 words)

	Travel - Egypt - Egyptian treasures - Dahab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The resort divides into two localities: a cluster of holiday villages catering for affluent visitors, and the Bedouin settlement of ASILAH 2.5km up the coast, where younger travellers hang out in a kind of Goa by the Red Sea - though as Asilah moves upmarket, the distinction between them is blurring.
		A third area is developing to the north of Asilah, near the dive sites of the Canyon and Blue Hole, but most construction was unfinished at time of writing.
		People arriving in Asilah are usually dropped near the Mohammed Aly Camp at the bottom end of Masbat, the local name for the "strip" of beachfront cafés and shops running north beyond the lighthouse on a headland.
	www.femalefirst.co.uk /travel/2752004.htm (1309 words)

	Asilah Transportation - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Asilah is la city ocated at the Atlantic ocean coast 46 km (29 mi) south of Tanger, 41 km (25 mi) north of Larache and 240 km (149 mi) north of Rabat.
		Asilah, is located at the Atlantic Ocean Coast 46 km fromTangiers.
		Asilah's train station is about a 30 minute walk from the town and there aren't many taxis around.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Africa/Morocco/Province_de_Tanger/Asilah-2117838/Transportation-Asilah-BR-1.html (286 words)

	Asilah \| Photo
		All in all, I think this justifies the decision to escape Tangier as soon as possible.
		That's why I'm currently plonked on a beach near the small town of Asilah, leaning against my backpack.
		Asilah is about an hour by train from Tangier and seemed perfectly convenient for an [View Full Entry]
	www.travelblog.org /Photos/79246.html (113 words)

	Asilah Town
		Asilah town is about a 30-minute walk from the Royal Asilah site.
		The cultural centre, seen here on the right, is the venue for the Arts Festival that is held every year between July and August.
		Apparently, it is an extremely popular event in Asilah's calendar and is the main reason why foreigners are not viewed as objects of curiosity in the town.
	home.freeuk.net /dgadshead/ra2.html (440 words)

	FOM Spring Newsletter: Asilah Moussem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		This eighteenth Asilah Symposium was attended by writers, scholars, and representatives from universities and institutions such as the American University at Cairo, Harvard University, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
		It was held at the Hassan II Center for International Encounters at Asilah, an ultra-modern facility and exhibition center with the latest in translation and conference electronics and abilities.
		Benaissa regularly visits his hometown, where visitors find it as it was originally built, inside the high oceanfront walls of a medieval fortress along narrow winding streets.
	friendsofmorocco.org /97news/97mous.html (287 words)

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