Maârif

Maârif or El Maârif (المعاريف) is a neighborhood of Casablanca, in the Anfa district of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. As of 2004 it had 180,394 inhabitants.

History
In 1949, the musician Salim Halali settled in Morocco and transformed an old café in Maârif into a prestigious cabaret, Le Coq d'Or, where Warda Al-Jazairia and El-Haja El-Hamdaouia performed. In the neighborhood is also located the Mohammed V stadium which holds room for 44'000 spectators. The novelist Mohamed Zafzaf also lived in the neighborhood.