* Casablanca Twin Center ( Morocco ), 1999

On 14 April, two brothers blew themselves up in downtown Casablanca, one near the American Consulate, and one a few blocks away near the American Language Center.

Burke's daughter, Melanie " Honey " Burke McCall, a Neo Soul singer who is an accomplished artist as well as a freelance background recording artist with companies such as Daxwood Records, Casablanca, A & M and Rawkus Records and a studio artist for groups such as Billy Preston, Peacock ( Anna Gayle group ), and Leslie Uggams, and toured with Chaka Khan, and wrote and produced Family, & Friends, a 14-song original soundtrack for Ms, which was released in 2005, and opened for Jocelyn Brown, Jaheim, Norman Connors, and Angela Bofill, as well as for her father at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia in 2006.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

Casablanca (, original name in ) is a city in western Morocco, located on the Atlantic Ocean.

He believed Casablanca to have been the most " prosperous city on the Atlantic coast because of its fertile land.

A view on the Boulevard de Paris in central Casablanca

A suspected militant blew himself up at a Casablanca internet cafe on 11 March 2007.

There are other football teams on top of these two major teams that are based in the city of Casablanca are Rachad Bernoussi, TAS de Casablanca, Majd Al Madina and Racing Casablanca.

In addition, it is ranked third, behind Citizen Kane, and Casablanca on the AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

They rented a villa on the road to Casablanca and during that time Orwell wrote Coming Up for Air.

During part of 1943 and 1944, Bogart went on USO and War Bond tours accompanied by Mayo, enduring arduous travels to Italy and North Africa, including Casablanca.

There are plans to construct two core lines, one from Tangier in the north via Marrakesh to Agadir in the south, and a second from Casablanca on the Atlantic to Oujda on the Algerian border.

It is possible to travel from Melilla to Morocco on foot and then further using an ONCF train from nearby Beni Ansar (= Nador Port Railway station ) which is probably the most convenient method of travel to Taourirt, Fez and Casablanca or Tangier.

Nawal El Moutawakel () ( born on April 15, 1962 in Casablanca ) is a Moroccan hurdler, who won the inaugural women's 400 m hurdles event at the 1984 Summer Olympics, thereby becoming the first female Muslim born on the continent of Africa to become an Olympic champion.

Other propaganda movies, such as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ), have become so well loved by film viewers that they can stand on their own as dramatic films, apart from their original role as propaganda vehicles.

Warner Bros. Television provided the ABC with a weekly show, Warner Bros. Presents ; the show featured a rotating series of shows based on three of the studio's film successes, Kings Row, Casablanca and Cheyenne, followed by a promotion for one of Warner's big screen films.

* July 12 – A Czechoslovakian Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land at Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 persons on board.

Ebert has provided DVD audio commentaries for several films, including Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Dark City, Floating Weeds, Crumb, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( for which Ebert also wrote the screenplay, based on a story that he co-wrote with Russ Meyer ).

Barthez was involved in a controversy during a friendly match between OM and Morocco's Wydad Casablanca on 12 February 2005.

I thought of Claude Rains's classic response, in Casablanca on being told there was gambling in Rick's place: " I'm shocked — shocked.

The sole and quickly growing Chinatown of North Africa is the Quartier chinois located on rue Mohamed Ben Ahmed Lekrik in the Derb Omar district of Casablanca.

The tournament final was held in Casablanca at Stade Mohamed V. Cameroon won its second championship, beating Nigeria in the final 1-0.

Stade Mohamed V () is part of a big athletic complex situated in the heart of the city of Casablanca, Morocco, in the western part of Maarif district.

Often hosting the games of the Moroccan national soccer team, Mohamed V stadium is equally known as the home of Raja Casablanca and Wydad Casablanca.

At the end of the 1970s, in preparation for the 1983 Mediterranean Games which were held in Casablanca, the stadium was closed for a major renovation ; with an increase of the seating capacity, installation of the electronic panel, and construction of the gymnasium and covered swimming pool around the stadium, it reopened in 1981 under its current name, Stade Mohamed V, and with an 80, 000 capacity.

Stade Mohamed V is located right in the center city of Casablanca, the international airport of Casablanca is 25 kilometres from the stadium, and the Casa-Vouyagers rail station is 5 kilometers from the stadium.

Its name is linked to the local saint Mohamed Ben Abd ' Allah El Mediouni who may be an Almoravide coming from the village of Mediouna near Casablanca in Morocco.

* 2004: A Casablanca, les anges ne volent pas ( Mohamed Asli, Morocco )

* 2004: A Casablanca, les anges ne volent pas ( Mohamed Asli, Morocco )

In the 2002 Sight and Sound Directors ' Poll, Pollack revealed his top ten films: Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Conformist, The Godfather Part II, Grand Illusion, The Leopard, Once Upon a Time in America, Raging Bull, The Seventh Seal, and Sunset Boulevard.

The offices of Casablanca Records moved onto Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles into the former A & M Records offices.

The Casablanca and Mohammedia seaports activity represent 50 % of the international commercial flows of Morocco.

By April, the album was clearly not the commercial success the band and Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart were hoping for.

Dressed to Kill, released in 1975, was a much better success, breaking into Top-40, but the band's record label, Casablanca Records, was close to bankruptcy and needed a commercial breakthrough they had later achieve with both Kiss ' and Casablanca's Top-10 album, double-live album Alive !, which featured the number 12 hit " Rock and Roll All Nite ".

Casablanca is considered the economic and business center of Morocco, while the political capital city of Morocco is Rabat.

Casablanca has become the economic and business capital of Morocco, while Rabat is the political capital.

Although no longer a member of the OAU ( Organisation of African Unity ) since November 12, 1984 — following the admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as the government of Western Sahara — Morocco remains involved in developing the regional economy, as the city of Casablanca contains North Africa's busiest port and serves as the country's economic center.

* February 4 – The Casablanca directive directs the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces to accomplish the " progressive destruction and dislocation of the German military, industrial, and economic system and the undermining of the morale of the German people to a point where their capacity for armed resistance is fatally weakened.

While the Casablanca Group, founded in 1961, gathered " progressive states " ( Egypt, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Libya, and Morocco ), the OSPAAL was an organization of movements, which aimed at creating national economic development plans for the newly independent states and break national isolation through internationalism.