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((short description|Moroccan official news agency))
((More citations needed|date=November 2023))
((Infobox government agency
| name            = Maghreb Agence Presse
| native_name     = 
| native_name_a   = ((lang|ar|وكالة المغرب العربي للأنباء))<br>((lang|ber|ⵜⵙⵏⵓⵕⴰⵢⵜ ⵜⴰⵎⵖⵔⴰⴱⵉⵢⵜ ⵏ ⵉⵏⵖⵎⵉⵙⵏ))
| motto           = "News are sacred, comment is free" or "The value of information"
| logo            = Logo map.png
| chief1_name     = Fouad Arif
| chief1_position = Director General
| parent_department = Department of Communication of the [[Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication (Morocco)|Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication]]
| formed          = ((start date|1959|05|31|df=yes))
| headquarters    = 122 Avenue Allal Ben Abdellah, [[Rabat]], [[Morocco]]
| website         = ((url|https://www.map.ma))
))

'''Maghreb Arabe Presse''' ('''MAP'''), also known as '''Maghreb Agence Presse''', is the government-owned official [[news agency]] of the [[Morocco|Kingdom of Morocco]].<ref>((Cite web|title=Organismes relevant du Département de la Communication|url=https://www.mincom.gov.ma/organisme-relevent-du-ministere/|access-date=2022-02-15|website=Ministère de la Jeunesse, de la Culture et de la Communication - Département de la Communication|language=fr))</ref>

==History and profile==
The agency was founded on 31 May 1959 by [[Mehdi Bennouna]] in [[Rabat]].<ref>((cite journal|title=A Comparative Study on the Pan-Arab Media Strategies: The Cases of Egypt and Saudi Arabia|date=February 2012|volume=5|issue=1&2|url=http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kias/pdf/kb5_1and2/07chiba.pdf|access-date=13 February 2014|author=Chiba Yushi))</ref><ref>((cite web|title=Country profiles - Morocco|url=http://www.journalismnetwork.eu/index.php/_en/country_profiles/morocco/|publisher=Journalism Network|access-date=13 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615045356/http://www.journalismnetwork.eu/index.php/_en/country_profiles/morocco|archive-date=15 June 2017|url-status=dead))</ref><ref name="ParkBoum2006">((cite book|author1=Thomas K. Park|author2=Aomar Boum|title=Historical Dictionary of Morocco|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8KiCl5-MxMMC&pg=PA243|access-date=8 October 2014|date=16 January 2006|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6511-2|page=243))</ref> It was nationalized in 1973.<ref name=ParkBoum2006/>

The director is Fouad Arif, and headquartered in [[Rabat]]. The agency has official international services in five languages: [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[English language|English]], [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and [[Tamazight]]. In 1960, the agency launched an [[Africa]]n bulletin. It launched a [[Middle East]] service as well as an English service on 14 October 1975.

Abdeljalil Fenjiro served as the director of the agency for more than twenty years until 16 November 1999 when Mohammed Yassine Mansouri replaced him in the post.<ref>((cite journal|title=Democratisation and the press: the case of Morocco|journal=Nord Süd Aktuell|year=2002|url=http://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/openaccess/nordsuedaktuell/2002_4/giga_nsa_2002_4_ibahrine.pdf|access-date=29 January 2014|author=Mohammed Ibahrine))</ref>

In addition to providing news, the agency co-founded a national charter for the improvement of women's images in the media with the Ministry of Social Development and Family and Solidarity and the Ministry of Communication and Culture in 2005.<ref>((cite journal|author=Loubna H. Skalli|title=Constructing Arab Female Leadership Lessons from the Moroccan Media|journal=Gender & Society|year=2011|volume=25|issue=475|pages=473–495|doi=10.1177/0891243211411051|s2cid=145483355 |url=http://gas.sagepub.com/content/25/4/473|access-date=9 October 2014))</ref>

On 19 May 2023, [[King Mohammed VI]] appointed Fouad Arif as the new Director General of MAP, following the death of [[Khalil Hachimi Idrissi]].<ref>((Cite web |last=Kasraoui |first=Safaa |title=King Mohammed VI Appoints Fouad Arif as Director General of MAP |url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2023/05/355535/king-mohammed-vi-appoints-fouad-arif-as-director-general-of-map |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=moroccoworldnews |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web |date=2023-05-20 |title=Fouad Arif Installed as MAP Director General |url=https://en.hespress.com/64461-fouad-arif-installed-as-map-director-general.html |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=HESPRESS English - Morocco News |language=en-US))</ref> 

==International offices==
The agency has international [[office]]s in [[Abidjan]], [[Algiers]], [[Bonn]], [[Beirut|Beyrouth]], [[Cairo]], [[Dakar]], [[Geneva]], [[Jeddah]], [[Lisbon]], [[Madrid]], [[Mexico City]], [[Montreal]], [[Moscow]], [[New Delhi]], [[Nouakchott]], [[Paris]], [[Rome]], [[Tunis]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]]. In addition, the agency is reported to have a "large network in Asia".<ref>((cite news|title=MAP one of the rare Arab news agencies to have large network in Asia, Chinese official|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-201258150.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611035612/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-201258150.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|access-date=4 February 2014|newspaper=UMCI News|date=6 June 2009))</ref>

==National and regional offices==
The agency has national and regional [[office]]s in [[Agadir]], [[Casablanca]], [[Tangier]], [[Dakhla, Western Sahara|Dakhla]], [[Fez, Morocco|Fez]], [[Kenitra]], [[Laayoune]], [[Nador]], [[Oujda]] and [[Settat]].

==Correspondents==
The agency has [[correspondent]]s in [[Abu Dhabi]], [[Addis Ababa]], [[Ankara]], [[Baghdad]], [[Buenos Aires]], [[Beijing]], [[Caracas]], [[Damascus]], [[El Jadida]], [[Essaouira]], [[Málaga]], [[Marseille]], [[Mexico City]], [[New Delhi]], [[Ouarzazate]], [[Pretoria]], [[Tan-Tan]], [[Taza]], [[Tehran]], [[Tétouan]] and [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]].

==See also==
* [[Media of Morocco]]
* [[Federation of Arab News Agencies]] (FANA)

==References==
((Reflist|33em))

==External links==
* ((Official website|https://www.map.ma/))

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