A special edition of Le Nouvel Observateur, titled Les Arabes, has been banned in Morocco on the grounds that it contains images of Mohammed. However, the magazine, published on 28th December, does not actually include any depictions of Mohammed's face. There have been inaccurate press reports about the magazine, as some articles have confused it with
L'Express, which was also recently banned in Morocco and does feature images of Mohammed.
Le Nouvel Observateur did, however, publish unveiled cover images of Mohammed on 10th March 2005 and 30th November 2006. (Other foreign publications - Courrier-International in
2009 and
2011,
El Pais in 2009, and
L'Express International in 2008 - have also been banned in Morocco, and the Moroccan newspaper
Akhbar Al Youm was closed down in 2009.)
