Casablanca

Etymology

Anfa

Before the 15th century, the settlement at what is now Casablanca had been called Anfa, rendered in European sources variously as El-Anfa, Anafa or Anaffa, Anafe, Anife, Anafee, Nafe, and Nafee. Ibn Khaldun ascribed the name to the Anfaça, a branch of the Awraba tribe of the Maghreb, though the sociologist André Adam refuted this claim due to the absence of the third syllable. Nahum Slouschz gave a Hebrew etymology, citing the Lexicon of Gesenius: anâphâh (a type of bird) or anaph (face, figure), though Adam refuted this arguing that even a Judaized population would still have spoken Tamazight. Adam also refuted an Arabic etymology, أنف (anf, "nose"), as the city predated the linguistic Arabization of the country, and the term anf was not used to describe geographic areas. Adam affirmed a Tamazight etymology—from anfa "hill", anfa "promontory on the sea", ifni "sandy beach", or anfa "threshing floor"—although he determined the available information insufficient to establish exactly which.

The name "Anfa" was used in maps until around 1830—in some until 1851—which Adam attributes to the tendency of cartographers to replicate previous maps.

Casablanca

When the ʿAlawi Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah (–1790) rebuilt the city after its destruction in the earthquake of 1755, it was renamed "ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ " (الدار البيضاء The White House), though in vernacular use it was pronounced "Dar al-Baiḍā" (دار البيضاء literally House of the White, although in Moroccan Arabic vernacular it retains the original sense of The White House).

The origins of the name "Casablanca" are unclear, although several theories have been suggested. André Adam mentions the legend of the Sufi saint and merchant Allal al-Qairawani, who supposedly came from Tunisia and settled in Casablanca with his wife Lalla al-Baiḍāʾ (لالة البيضاء White Lady). The villagers of Mediouna would reportedly provision themselves at "Dar al-Baiḍāʾ" (دار البيضاء House of the White).

In fact, on a low hill slightly inland above the ruins of Anfa and just to the west of today's city centre, it appears there was a white-washed structure, possibly a Sufi zawiya that acted as a landmark to sailors. The Portuguese cartographer Duarte Pacheco wrote in the early 16th century that the city could easily be identified by a tower, and nautical guides from the late 19th century still mentioned a "white tower" as a point of reference. The Portuguese mariners calqued the modern Arabic name to "Casa Branca" ( White House) in place of Anfa. The name "Casablanca" was then a calque of the Portuguese name when the Spanish took over trade through the Iberian Union.

During the French protectorate in Morocco, the name remained Casablanca (). Today, Moroccans still call the city Casablanca or Casa for short, or by its Arabic name, pronounced ary in Moroccan Arabic or arb in Standard Arabic.

History

Main article: History of Casablanca

Early history

The area that is today Casablanca was founded and settled by Berbers by the seventh century BC. It was used as a port by the Phoenicians, then the Romans. In his book Description of Africa, Leo Africanus refers to ancient Casablanca as "Anfa", a great city founded in the Berber kingdom of Barghawata in 744 AD. He believed Anfa was the most "prosperous city on the Atlantic Coast because of its fertile land." Barghawata rose as an independent state around this time, and continued until it was conquered by the Almoravids in 1068. After the defeat of the Barghawata in the 12th century, Arab tribes of Hilal and Sulaym descent settled in the region, mixing with the local Berbers, which led to widespread Arabization. During the 14th century, under the Merinids, Anfa rose in importance as a port. The last of the Merinids were ousted by a popular revolt in 1465.

Portuguese conquest and Spanish influence

Main article: Anfa expedition (1468)

In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers. The Portuguese consequently bombarded the town into ruins in 1468. The town that grew up around it was called Casa Branca, meaning "white house" in Portuguese.

The town was finally rebuilt between 1756 and 1790 by Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, the grandson of Moulay Ismail. The town was called ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʼ (الدار البيضاء), the Arabic translation of the Portuguese Casa Branca.

Colonial struggle

In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as it became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased (the British, in return, began importing gunpowder tea, used in Morocco's national drink, mint tea). By the 1860s, around 5,000 residents were there, and the population grew to around 10,000 by the late 1880s. Casablanca remained a modestly sized port, with a population reaching around 12,000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in 1906. By 1921, this rose to 110,000, largely through the development of shanty towns.

Bombardment of Casablanca

The Treaty of Algeciras of 1906 formalized French preeminence in Morocco and included three measures that directly impacted Casablanca: that French officers would control operations at the customs office and seize revenue as collateral for loans given by France, that the French holding company La Compagnie Marocaine would develop the port of Casablanca, and that a French-and-Spanish-trained police force would be assembled to patrol the port.

To build the port's breakwater, narrow-gauge track was laid in June 1907 for a small Decauville locomotive to connect the port to a quarry in Roches Noires, passing through the sacred Sidi Belyout graveyard. In resistance to this and the measures of the 1906 Treaty of Algeciras, tribesmen of the Chaouia attacked the locomotive, killing 9 Compagnie Marocaine laborers—3 French, 3 Italians, and 3 Spanish.

In response, the French bombarded the city in August 1907 with multiple gunboats and landed troops inside the town, causing severe damage and killing between 600 and 3,000 Moroccans. Estimates for the total casualties are as high as 15,000 dead and wounded. In the immediate aftermath of the bombardment and the deployment of French troops, the European homes and the Mellah, or Jewish quarter, were sacked, and the latter was also set ablaze.

As Oujda had already been occupied, the bombardment and military invasion of the city opened a western front to the French military conquest of Morocco. File:Derailed locomotive in Casablanca 1907.jpg|A man inspects the derailed Decauville locomotive at the scene of the attack that served as the pretext for the French bombardment of Casablanca in 1907. File:الدار البيضاء 1907 01.jpg|A postcard showing the French cruiser Gloire recoiling from firing artillery at the city during the bombardment of Casablanca August 1907. File:قائد الدار البيضاء محتجز على متن سفينة فرنسية.jpg|The Qaid of Casablanca, Si Boubker Ben Bouzid Slaoui, captive on the French cruiser Galilée. File:الدار البيضاء 1907 مقبرة جماعية.jpg|Moroccan cadavers in a mass grave in 1907.

French rule and influence

Main article: French protectorate of Morocco

French control of Casablanca was formalized March 1912 when the Treaty of Fez established the French Protectorat. Under French imperial control, Casablanca became a port of colonial extraction.

Right at the beginning of the twentieth century when Morocco was officially declared a French protectorate, the French decided to shift power to Morocco's coastal areas (i.e. Rabat and Casablanca) at the expense of its interior areas (i.e. Fez and Marrakesh). Rabat was made the administrative capital of the country and Casablanca its economic capital.

General Hubert Lyautey assigned the planning of the new colonial port city to Henri Prost. As he did in other Moroccan cities, Prost designed a European ville nouvelle outside the walls of the medina. In Casablanca, he also designed a new "ville indigène" to house Moroccans arriving from other cities.

Europeans formed almost half the population of Casablanca.

A 1937–1938 typhoid fever outbreak was exploited by colonial authorities to justify the appropriation of urban spaces in Casablanca. Moroccans residing in informal housing were cleared out of the center and displaced, notably to Carrières Centrales.

World War II

After Philippe Pétain of France signed the armistice with the Nazis, he ordered French troops in France's colonial empire to defend French territory against any aggressors—Allied or otherwise—applying a policy of "asymmetrical neutrality" in favour of the Germans. French colonists in Morocco generally supported Pétain, while Moroccans tended to favour de Gaulle and the Allies.

Operation Torch, which started on 8 November 1942, was the British-American invasion of French North Africa during the North African campaign of World War II. The Western Task Force, composed of American units led by Major General George S. Patton and Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, carried out the invasions of Mehdia, Fedhala, and Asfi. American forces captured Casablanca from Vichy control when France surrendered 11 November 1942, but the Naval Battle of Casablanca continued until American forces sank German submarine U-173 on 16 November.

Casablanca was the site of the Berrechid Airfield, a large American air base used as the staging area for all American aircraft for the European theatre of World War II. The airfield has since become Mohammed V International Airport.

Anfa Conference

Main article: Casablanca Conference

Casablanca hosted the Anfa Conference (also called the Casablanca Conference) in January 1943. Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war. Also in attendance were the Free France generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud, though they played minor roles and didn't participate in the military planning.

It was at this conference that the Allies adopted the doctrine of "unconditional surrender", meaning that the Axis powers would be fought until their defeat. Roosevelt also met privately with Sultan Muhammad V and expressed his support for Moroccan independence after the war. This became a turning point, as Moroccan nationalists were emboldened to openly seek complete independence.

Toward independence

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

On 7 April 1947, a massacre of working class Moroccans, carried out by Senegalese Tirailleurs in the service of the French colonial army, was instigated just as Sultan Muhammed V was due to make a speech in Tangier appealing for independence.

Riots in Casablanca took place from 7–8 December 1952, in response to the assassination of the Tunisian labor unionist Farhat Hached by La Main Rouge—the clandestine militant wing of French intelligence. Then, on 25 December 1953 (Christmas Day), Muhammad Zarqtuni orchestrated a bombing of Casablanca's Central Market in response to the forced exile of Sultan Muhammad V and the royal family on 20 August (Eid al-Adha) of that year.

Since independence

Morocco gained independence from France in 1956. The post-independence era witnessed significant urban transformations and socio-economic shifts, particularly in neighborhoods like Hay Mohammadi, which were deeply impacted by neoliberal policies and state-led urban redevelopment projects.

Casablanca Group

On 4–7 January 1961, the city hosted an ensemble of progressive African leaders during the Casablanca Conference of 1961. Among those received by King Muhammad V were Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kwame Nkrumah, Modibo Keïta, and Ahmed Sékou Touré, Ferhat Abbas.

Jewish emigration

Casablanca was a major departure point for Jews leaving Morocco through Operation Yachin, an operation conducted by Mossad to secretly migrate Moroccan Jews to Israel between November 1961 and spring 1964.

1965 riots

The 1965 student protests organized by the National Union of Popular Forces-affiliated National Union of Moroccan Students, which spread to cities around the country and devolved into riots, started on 22 March 1965, in front of Lycée Mohammed V in Casablanca. The protests started as a peaceful march to demand the right to public higher education for Morocco, but expanded to include concerns of labourers, the unemployed, and other marginalized segments of society, and devolved into vandalism and rioting. The riots were violently repressed by security forces with tanks and armoured vehicles; Moroccan authorities reported a dozen deaths while the UNFP reported more than 1,000. This violent suppression happened under the minister of interior Mohamed Oufkir's direction. He personally machine-gunned rioters from his helicopter.

King Hassan II blamed the events on teachers and parents, and declared in a speech to the nation on 30 March 1965: "There is no greater danger to the State than a so-called intellectual. It would have been better if you were all illiterate."

1981 riots

On 6 June 1981, the Casablanca Bread Riots took place, which were sparked by a sharp increase in the price of necessities such as butter, sugar, wheat flour, and cooking oil following a period of severe drought. Hassan II appointed the French-trained interior minister Driss Basri as hardliner, who would later become a symbol of the Years of Lead, with quelling the protests. The government stated that 66 people were killed and 100 were injured, while opposition leaders put the number of dead at 637, saying that many of these were killed by police and army gunfire.

''Mudawana''

In March 2000, more than 60 women's groups organized demonstrations in Casablanca proposing reforms to the legal status of women in the country. About 40,000 women attended, calling for a ban on polygamy and the introduction of divorce law (divorce being a purely religious procedure at that time). Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Further history

On 16 May 2003, 33 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured when Casablanca was hit by a multiple suicide bomb attack carried out by Moroccans and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda. Twelve suicide bombers struck five locations in the city.

Another series of suicide bombings struck the city in early 2007. These events illustrated some of the persistent challenges the city faces in addressing poverty and integrating disadvantaged neighborhoods and populations. One initiative to improve conditions in the city's disadvantaged neighborhoods was the creation of the Sidi Moumen Cultural Center.

As calls for reform spread through the Arab world in 2011, Moroccans joined in, but concessions by the ruler led to acceptance. However, in December, thousands of people demonstrated in several parts of the city, especially the city center near la Fontaine, desiring more significant political reforms. On 1 November 2023, Casablanca along with Ouarzazate joined UNESCO's Creative Cities Network.

Geography

Casablanca is located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia Plains, which have historically been the breadbasket of Morocco. Apart from the Atlantic coast, the Bouskoura forest is the only natural attraction in the city. The forest was planted in the 20th century and consists mostly of eucalyptus, palm, and pine trees. It is located halfway to the city's international airport.

The only watercourse in Casablanca is oued Bouskoura, a small seasonal creek that until 1912 reached the Atlantic Ocean near the actual port. Most of oued Bouskoura's bed has been covered due to urbanization and only the part south of El Jadida road can now be seen. The closest permanent river to Casablanca is Oum Rabia, 70 km to the south-east.

Neighborhood

The list of neighborhoods is indicative and not complete:

• 2 Mars
• Ain Chock
• Ain Diab
• Ain Sebaa
• Attacharouk
• Belvédère
• Beauséjour
• Bouchentouf
• Bouskoura
• Bourgogne
• Californie
• Centre Ville
• C.I.L.
• La Colline
• Derb Ghallef
• Derb Sultan
• Derb Tazi
• Gauthier
• Ghandi
• Habous
• El Hank
• Hay Dakhla
• Hay El Baraka
• Hay El Hanaa
• Hay El Hassani
• Hay El Mohammadi
• Hay Farah
• Hay Moulay Rachid
• Hay Salama
• Hubous
• Inara
• Laimoun (Hay Hassani)
• Lamkansa
• Lissasfa
• Maârif
• Mers Sultan
• Nassim
• Oasis
• Old Madina
• Oulfa
• Palmiers
• Polo
• Racine
• Riviera
• Roches Noires
• Salmia 2
• Sbata
• Sidi Bernoussi
• Sidi Maârouf
• Sidi Moumen
• Sidi Othmane

Climate

Casablanca has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa), bordering on hot semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSh) . The cool Canary Current off the Atlantic coast moderates temperature variation, which results in a climate remarkably similar to that of coastal Los Angeles, with similar temperature ranges. The city has an annual average of 72 days with significant precipitation, which amounts to 412 mm per year. The highest and lowest temperatures ever recorded in the city are 40.5 °C and -2.7 °C, respectively. The highest amount of rainfall recorded in a single day is 178 mm on 30 November 2010.

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Climate change

A 2019 paper published in PLOS One estimated that under Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5, a "moderate" scenario of climate change where global warming reaches ~2.5-3 C-change by 2100, the climate of Casablanca in the year 2050 would most closely resemble the current climate of Tripoli, Libya. The annual temperature would increase by 1.7 C-change, and the temperature of the warmest month by 1.6 C-change, while the temperature of the coldest month would actually decrease by 0.2 C-change.

Moreover, according to the 2022 IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Casablanca is one of 12 major African cities (Abidjan, Alexandria, Algiers, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Durban, Lagos, Lomé, Luanda and Maputo) which would be the most severely affected by future sea level rise. It estimates that they would collectively sustain cumulative damages of US$65 billion under RCP 4.5 and US$86.5 billion for the high-emission scenario RCP 8.5 by the year 2050. Additionally, RCP 8.5 combined with the hypothetical impact from marine ice sheet instability at high levels of warming would involve up to US$137.5 billion in damages, while the additional accounting for the "low-probability, high-damage events" may increase aggregate risks to US$187 billion for the "moderate" RCP4.5, US$206 billion for RCP8.5 and US$397 billion under the high-end ice sheet instability scenario. Since sea level rise would continue for about 10,000 years under every scenario of climate change, future costs of sea level rise would only increase, especially without adaptation measures.

Economy

Main article: Economy of Casablanca

The Grand Casablanca region is considered the locomotive of the development of the Moroccan economy. It attracts 32% of the country's production units and 56% of industrial labor. The region uses 30% of the national electricity production. With MAD 93 billion, the region contributes to 44% of the industrial production of the kingdom. About 33% of national industrial exports, MAD 27 billion, comes from the Grand Casablanca; 30% of the Moroccan banking network is concentrated in Casablanca.

One of the most important exports of Casablanca is phosphate. Other industries include fishing, fish canning, sawmills, furniture production, building materials, glass, textiles, electronics, leather work, processed food, spirits, soft drinks, and cigarettes.

The Casablanca and Mohammedia seaports activity represent 50% of the international commercial flows of Morocco. Almost the entire Casablanca waterfront is under development, mainly the construction of huge entertainment centres between the port and Hassan II Mosque, the Anfa Resort project near the business, entertainment and living centre of Megarama, the shopping and entertainment complex of Morocco Mall, as well as a complete renovation of the coastal walkway. The Sindbad park was also renewed with rides, games and entertainment services.

Casablanca is a significant financial centre, ranking 54th globally in the September 2023 Global Financial Centres Index rankings, between Brussels and Rome. The Casablanca Stock Exchange is Africa's third-largest in terms of market capitalization, as of December 2022.

Royal Air Maroc has its head office at the previous Casablanca-Anfa Airport location. In 2004, it announced that it was moving its head office from Casablanca to a location in Province of Nouaceur, close to Mohammed V International Airport. The agreement to build the head office in Nouaceur was signed in 2009 but was never implemented.

Administration and Politics

Casablanca is a municipality that is part of the Casablanca-Settat region.

The municipality is divided into 16 districts (arrondissements).

Municipality

The responsibilities of the Casablanca municipality include :

• Economic and social development
• Traffic, Roads, Sidewalks, Bike Lanes
• Parking
• Public Transit
• The environment
• Parks
• Beaches
• Public Safety
• Hygiene
• Libraries
• Museums
• Cultural Events
• Kindergartens
• Cemeteries

Mayor

The Mayor of Casablanca is the head of the Casablanca municipality. He controls the Casablanca municipality administration.

The Mayor :

• Represents the city****
• Sits on the board of public development societies (SDL)
• Must execute the budget voted by the city ouncil
• Must answer questions from the council members
• Must ask the council for approval before signing any partnership with the private sector
• Meets the leader of the 16 districts to receive suggestion
• Can sue on behalf of the Municipality of Casablanca
• Can create a police force that focuses on public hygiene and public order****
• Can be removed by the majority of the council

City Council

The Mayor is accountable to the City Council, who represents a total of 100 to 130 elected citizens from every Casablanca neighborhood.

The City Council meets each year during the months of February, may and October. These 3 meetings are mandatory according to Moroccan law.

The council members are informed 10 days before the meetings.

Apart from these 3 sessions, the council can also be summoned by:

• The Mayor
• The Wali of Casablanca
• 1/3 of the council members

At the end of every council session, a record of the votes must be preserved by a Secretary.

16 Districts (arrondissements)

The municipality of Casablanca is divided into 16 local districts (arrondissements).

According to Moroccan law, the main responsibilities of the districts include:

• Local parks
• Local green spaces
• Local cultural events
• Maintaining any cultural asset given to the district by the municipality

Each year, the 16 districts all receive a small budget from the municipality of Casablanca. However, they each determine how to use that budget. Each district has a President who is accountable to 15 to 20 district council members.

Example: The President of Anfa is accountable to the Council of Anfa. Only people living in Anfa can vote for the Anfa council.

Each of the 16 local councils meets 3 times a year, in January, June, and September.

These 3 meetings are mandatory and generally open to the public.

The President of the 16 Districts can ask the Mayor of Casablanca to give them special powers.

Prefectures

Casablanca is divided into 8 prefectures. Each prefecture is led by a Governor who is appointed by the Moroccan government.

A governor typically oversees 2 or 3 districts.

Example: The Governor of Prefecture de Casablanca-Anfa oversees Anfa, Sidi Belyout and Maarif.

Governors can cancel decisions voted by a council if the proper legal procedures were not respected. They can also ask a judge to remove a District President from office if there is evidence he doesn't show up at council meetings.

Demographics

The commune of Casablanca recorded a population of 3,359,818 in the 2014 Moroccan census. About 98% live in urban areas. Around 25% of the population are under 15 years old, and 9% are over 60 years old. The population of the city is about 11% of the total population of Morocco. Grand Casablanca is the largest urban area in the Maghreb. 99.9% of the population of Morocco are Arab and Berber Muslims. During the French protectorate in Morocco, European Christians formed almost half the population of Casablanca. Since Moroccan independence in 1956, the European population has decreased substantially. The city also is still home to a small community of Moroccan Christians, as well as a small group of foreign Roman Catholic and Protestant residents.

Judaism in Casablanca

Jews have a long history in Casablanca. A Sephardic Jewish community was in Anfa up to the destruction of the city by the Portuguese in 1468. Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750, the Rabbi Elijah synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca. It was destroyed along with much of the town in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

In the mid-19th century, with commercial development through European economic penetration, industrial imports from Europe drove traditional Jewish crafts out of the market, costing many Jews in the interior their traditional livelihoods. Moroccan Jews started migrating from the interior to coastal cities such as Essaouira, Mazagan, Asfi, and later Casablanca for economic opportunity, participating in trade with Europeans and the development of those cities.

Casablanca's mellah was ravaged in the bombardment of Casablanca of 1907, the beginning of the French invasion of Morocco from the West.

Jean-Louis Cohen highlights the role of Jewish patrons in the architecture and urban development of Casablanca, particularly in construction of the overwhelming majority of the city's tallest buildings during the interwar period.** One notable example of this trend is the Lévy-Bendayan Building designed by Marius Boyer.**

Approximately 28,000 Moroccan Jews immigrated to the State of Israel between 1948 and 1951, many through Casablanca. Casablanca then became a departure point in Operation Yachin, the covert Mossad-organized migration operation from 1961 to 1964. In 1956 there were 100,000 Jews registered in Casablanca. In 2018 it was estimated that there were only 2,500 Moroccan Jews living in Casablanca, while according to the World Jewish Congress there were only 1,000 Moroccan Jews remaining.

Today, the Jewish cemetery of Casablanca is one of the major cemeteries of the city, and many synagogues remain in service, but the city's Jewish community has dwindled. The Moroccan Jewish Museum is a museum established in the city in 1997.

Education

Colleges and universities

Public:

• École Centrale Casablanca
• University of Hassan II Casablanca

Private:

• HEM Business School
• Université Mundiapolis
• Université Internationale de Casablanca

Primary and secondary schools

International schools:

• Belgium: École Belge de Casablanca
• French:
  • Collège Anatole France
  • Lycée Lyautey
  • Groupe Scolaire Louis Massignon
  • Lycée La Résidence
  • Lycée Maïmonide
  • Lycée Léon l'Africain
  • École Normale Hébraïque
  • École Al Jabr
• Italian: Scuola "Enrico Mattei"
• Spanish: Instituto Español Juan Ramón Jiménez
• American:
  • Casablanca American School
  • American Academy Casablanca
  • George Washington Academy
• Montessori:
  • École Montessori Casablanca

Libraries

• King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Human Sciences and Islamic Studies
• Dar America
• Institut Français
• Instituto Cervantes

Places of worship

Most of the city's places of worship are Muslim mosques. Some of the city's synagogues, such as Ettedgui Synagogue, also remain. There are also Christian churches; some remain in use — particularly by the West African migrant community — while many of the churches built during the colonial period have been repurposed, such as Church of the Sacred Heart.

Sport

Association football

Casablanca is home to two popular football clubs: Wydad Casablanca and Raja Casablanca—which are rivals. Raja's symbol is an eagle and Wydad's symbol is a star and crescent, a symbol of Islam. These two popular clubs have produced some of Morocco's best players, such as: Salaheddine Bassir, Abdelmajid Dolmy, Baddou Zaki, Aziz Bouderbala, and Noureddine Naybet. Other football teams on top of these two major teams based in the city of Casablanca include Rachad Bernoussi, TAS de Casablanca, Majd Al Madina, and Racing Casablanca.

Raja CA, founded in 1949, compete in Botola and play their home games at the Stade Mohammed V. The club is known for their supporters and is one of the most supported teams in Africa. Wydad AC, founded in 1937, also compete in Botola and play their home games at the Stade Mohammed V. Both have a strong reputation on continental competitions, having both won the CAF Champions League three times.

Casablanca hosted eight African Champions League finals, all eight at the Stade Mohammed V. The Stade also hosted the 2018 CHAN Final (which Morocco won) and 1988 African Cup of Nations final. It could potentially host matches for the 2030 FIFA World Cup including the final.

Tennis

Casablanca hosts The Grand Prix Hassan II, a professional men's tennis tournament of the ATP tour.

Hosting

Casablanca staged the 1961 Pan Arab Games, the 1983 Mediterranean Games, and games during the 1988 Africa Cup of Nations. Morocco was scheduled to host the 2015 African Nations Cup, but decided to decline due to Ebola fears. Morocco will host the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

Venues

• Stade Larbi Zaouli
• Stade Mohamed V
• Stade Sidi Bernoussi
• Complexe Al Amal de Casablanca

The Hassan II Stadium is the planned football stadium to be built in the city. Once completed in 2025, it will be used mostly for football matches and will serve as the home of Raja Casablanca, Wydad Casablanca, and the Morocco national football team. The stadium was designed with a capacity of 93,000 spectators, making it one of the highest-capacity stadiums in Africa. Once completed, it will replace the Stade Mohamed V. The initial idea of the stadium was for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, for which Morocco lost their bid to South Africa. Nevertheless, the Moroccan government supported the decision to go ahead with the plans. It will be completed in 2025. The idea of the stadium was also for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, for which Morocco lost their bid to Canada, Mexico and United States. It will now host the 2030 FIFA World Cup which Morocco will co-host with two European nations Spain and Portugal. It is expected to be complete by 2028.

Road Racing

The city is host to the International Casablanca Marathon, a 26.2-mile road race that draws international competition. The race was founded in 2008 and is a member of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races.

Culture

Music

Haja El Hamdaouia, one of the most iconic figures in aita music, was born in Casablanca. Nass El Ghiwane, led by Larbi Batma, came out of Hay Mohammadi in Casablanca. Naima Samih of Derb Sultan gained prominence through the program Mawahib (مواهب). Abdelhadi Belkhayat and Abdelwahab Doukkali are musicians specializing in traditional Moroccan Arabic popular music. Zina Daoudia, Abdelaziz Stati, Abdellah Daoudi, and Said Senhaji are notable Moroccan chaabi musicians.

Abdelakabir Faradjallah founded Attarazat Addahabia, a Moroccan funk band, in 1968. Fadoul, another funk band, formed in the 1970s. Hoba Hoba Spirit also formed in Casablanca, and is still based there. Casablanca has a thriving hiphop scene, with artists such as ElGrandeToto, Don Bigg, 7liwa, Dizzy DROS and Issam Harris. Casablanca hosts numerous music festivals, such as Jazzablanca and L'Boulevard, as well as a museum dedicated to Andalusi music, Dar ul-Aala.

Literature

Francesco Cavalli's L'Ormindo is a 17th-century Venetian opera set between Anfa and Fez. Driss Chraïbi's novel The Simple Past takes place in Casablanca. Mohamed Zafzaf lived in Maarif while writing and teaching at a high school. Lamalif, a radical leftist political and cultural magazine, was based in Casablanca.

Casablanca's International Book Fair is held at the fair grounds opposite Hassan II Mosque annually in February.

Theater

Tayeb Saddiki, described as the father of Moroccan theater, grew up in Casablanca and made his career there. Hanane el-Fadili and Hassan El Fad are popular comedians from Casablanca. Gad Elmaleh is another comedian from Casablanca, though he has made his career abroad.

Visual art

The École des Beaux-Arts of Casablanca was founded in 1919 by a French Orientalist painter named Édouard Brindeau de Jarny, who started his career teaching drawing at Lycée Lyautey. The Casablanca School—a Modernist art movement and collective including artists such as Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Melehi, and Mohammed Chabâa—developed out of the École des Beaux-Arts of Casablanca in the late 1960s.

The Academy of Traditional Arts, part of the Hassan II Mosque complex, was founded 31 October 2012. L'Uzine is a community-based art and culture space in Casablanca. Rebel Spirit published The Casablanca Guide (الدليل البيضاوي, Le Guide Casablancais) a comic book about life in Casablanca. Sbagha Bagha is a street art festival during which murals are created on the sides of apartment buildings.

Photography

Postcard companies such as Léon & Lévy were active in Casablanca. Gabriel Veyre also worked and eventually died in Casablanca.

Marcelin Flandrin (1889–1957), a French military photographer, settled in Casablanca and recorded much of the early colonial period in Morocco with his photography. With his staged nude postcard photos taken in Casablanca's colonial brothel quarter, Flandrin was also responsible for disseminating the orientalist image of Moroccan women as sexual objects.

Casablanca has a thriving street photography scene. Yoriyas is prominent among photographers capturing the economic capital's street scenes, and has attracted international attention.

Film

In the first half of the 20th century, Casablanca had many movie theaters, such as Cinema Rialto, Cinema Lynx and Cinema Vox, the largest in Africa when it was built.

The 1942 American film Casablanca is set in Casablanca and has had a lasting impact on the city's image although it was filmed in the United States. Rick's Café Casablanca, which opened in 2004, was inspired by the film.

Salut Casa! was a propaganda film brandishing France's purported colonial triumph in its mission civilisatrice in the city.

Mostafa Derkaoui's revolutionary independent film About Some Meaningless Events (1974) took place in Casablanca. It was the main subject of Ali Essafi's documentary Before the Dying of the Light.

Love in Casablanca (1991), starring Abdelkarim Derqaoui and Muna Fettou, is one of the first Moroccan films to deal with Morocco's complex realities and to depict life in Casablanca with verisimilitude. Nour-Eddine Lakhmari's Casanegra (2008) depicts the harsh realities of Casablanca's working classes. The films Ali Zaoua (2000), Horses of God (2012), and Razzia (2017) of Nabil Ayouch, a French director of Moroccan heritage, deal with street crime, terrorism and social issues in Casablanca, respectively. The events in Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi's 2018 film Sofia revolve around an illegitimate pregnancy in Casablanca. Ahmed El Maanouni, Hicham Lasri and Said Naciri are also from Casablanca.

Architecture

Main article: Architecture of Casablanca

Casablanca's architecture and urban development are historically significant. The city is home to many notable buildings in a variety of styles, including traditional Moroccan architecture, various colonial architectural styles, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Neo-Mauresque, Streamline Moderne, Modernism, Brutalism, and more. During the French Protectorate, the French government described Casablanca as a "laboratory of urbanism".

The work of the Groupe des Architectes Modernes Marocains (GAMMA) on public housing projects—such as Carrières Centrales in Hay Mohammadi—in a style described as vernacular modernism influenced modernist architecture around the world.

Casamémoire and MAMMA. are two organizations dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of the city's architectural heritage.

Transport

Rapid transit

The Casablanca Tramway is the rapid transit tram system in Casablanca. As of 2024, the network consists of four lines covering 74 km, with 110 stops.

Casablanca has also implemented a rapid bus transit system known as the Casablanca Busway, a high-level bus network serving the city. As of 2024, the network consists of two lines, BW1 and BW2.

Since the 1970s, Casablanca had planned to build a metro system to offer some relief to the problems of traffic congestion and poor air quality. However, the city council voted to abandon the metro project in 2014 due to high costs, and decided to continue expanding the already operating tram system instead.

Compagnie de Transports au Maroc (CTM) offers private intercity coach buses on various lines run servicing most notable Moroccan towns, as well as a number of European cities. These run from the CTM Bus Station on Leo Africanus Street near the Central Market in downtown Casablanca. Supratours, an affiliate of ONCF, also offers coach bus service at a slightly lower cost, departing from a station on Wilad Zian Street. There is another bus station farther down on the same street called the Wilad Zian Bus Station; this station is the country's largest bus station, serving over 800 buses daily, catering more to Morocco's lower income population.

Tourism

Although Mohammed V International Airport receives most international flights into Morocco, international tourism in Casablanca is not as developed as it is in cities such as Fez and Marrakesh.

The Hassan II Mosque, which is the second largest mosque in Africa and the seventh-largest in the world, is the city's main tourist attraction. Visitors also come to see the city's rich architectural heritage.

Popular sites for national tourism include shopping centres such as Morocco Mall, Anfa Place, the Marina Shopping Centre, and the Tachfine Centre. Additional sites include the Corniche and the beach of Ain Diab, and parks such as the Arab League Park or the Sindibad theme park.

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Notable people

• Lahcen Abrami – former Moroccan footballer
• Saida el Alami – Moroccan human rights activist
• Amine Atouchi – Moroccan footballer
• Khalil Azmi – former Moroccan goalkeeper
• Amal Ayouch – Moroccan stage and film actress
• Wissam Baraka – Moroccan footballer
• Salaheddine Bassir – Moroccan footballer
• Laarbi Batma – Moroccan musician and artist, founding member of Nas El Ghiwan
• Larbi Benbarek – Moroccan footballer
• Badr Benoun – Moroccan footballer
• Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun – Moroccan businesswoman
• Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes – French footballer
• Frida Boccara – French singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1969
• Aziz Bouderbala – former Moroccan footballer
• Merieme Chadid – Moroccan astronomer
• Mustapha Chadili – former goalkeeper
• Achraf Dari – Moroccan footballer
• Jean-Charles de Castelbajac – Moroccan/French fashion designer
• Nabil Dirar – Moroccan footballer
• Abdelmajid Dolmy – former Moroccan footballer
• Don Bigg – Moroccan rapper and songwriter
• Dizzy DROS – Moroccan rapper and producer
• Issam El Adoua – Moroccan footballer
• Badr El Kaddouri – former Moroccan footballer
• Talal El Karkouri – former Moroccan footballer
• Gad Elmaleh – French/Canadian/Moroccan comedian
• Bouchaib El Moubarki – former Moroccan footballer
• Youssef Fertout – Moroccan manager
• La Fouine – Moroccan/French rapper
• Khalid Fouhami – former Moroccan goalkeeper
• Mohamed Fouzair – Moroccan footballer
• Divina Frau-Meigs – Moroccan sociologist and professor
• El Haqed – Moroccan rapper
• Serge Haroche – French physicist, awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics
• Shatha Hassoun – Moroccan/Iraqi singer and actress
• Lydia Hatuel-Czuckermann – Israeli Olympic fencer
• Mouhcine Iajour – Moroccan footballer
• Driss Joumad – former Morocco international footballer
• Nadir Lamyaghri – former Moroccan goalkeeper
• Hamza Mendyl – Moroccan footballer
• Hicham Mesbahi – Moroccan boxer
• French Montana – Moroccan/American rapper
• Nawal El Moutawakel – Moroccan Olympic champion
• Hakim Mouzaki – Moroccan footballer
• Abderrahim Najah – Moroccan international basketball player
• Noureddine Naybet – Moroccan footballer
• Mostafa Nissaboury – Moroccan poet
• Hakim Noury – Moroccan film director
• Maurice Ohana – French composer
• Faouzia Ouihya – Moroccan-Canadian singer
• Azzedine Ounahi – Moroccan footballer
• Jean Reno – Hollywood actor
• Youssef Rossi – former Moroccan footballer
• Abdelilah Saber – Moroccan former footballer
• Youssef Safri – Moroccan football manager
• Jamal Sellami – Moroccan football manager
• Daniel Sivan – Israeli professor
• Alain Souchon – French songwriter
• Frank Stephenson – Moroccan/British/American award-winning automobile designer
• Hassan Saada – Moroccan boxer arrested for alleged rape before Olympic match
• Tagne – rapper
• Sidney Taurel – naturalized American CEO of Eli Lilly and Company from 1998 to 2008
• Richard Virenque – French cyclist
• Muhammad Zarqtuni – Moroccan nationalist and resistance leader
• Abdallah Zrika – Moroccan poet

Twin towns – sister cities

Casablanca is twinned with:

• FRA Bordeaux, France
• KOR Busan, South Korea
• USA Chicago, United States
• SEN Dakar, Senegal
• UAE Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• IDN Jakarta, Indonesia
• MYS Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• OMN Muscat, Oman
• MTN Nouadhibou, Mauritania
• CHN Shanghai, China

Casablanca also has cooperation agreements with:

• NGR Abuja, Nigeria
• JOR Amman, Jordan
• NED Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ESP Barcelona, Spain
• ARG Buenos Aires, Argentina
• PSE Hebron, Palestine
• TUR Istanbul, Turkey
• KEN Kajiado, Kenya
• BFA Koudougou, Burkina Faso
• CAN Montreal, Canada
• COM Moroni, Comoros
• MTN Nouakchott, Mauritania
• FRA Paris, France
• PSE Ramallah, Palestine
• NED Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Belgium Brussels, Belgium
• ESP Madrid, Spain
• GBR London, United Kingdom
• ESP San Sebastián, Spain
• ROU Bucharest, Romania
• CZE Prague, Czech Republic

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