Moroccan arts, cinema and music in English: film festivals, Gnawa and Malhun, fashion and the artists shaping Morocco’s cultural scene.
Not every introduction to Moroccan music needs to begin with a festival lineup. Malhun offers another entry point: poems sung with instrumental accompaniment, carrying subjects that range from love and food to social questions and imaginary journeys. For a listener…
Marion Cotillard will chair the jury of the twenty-third Marrakech International Film Festival. The headline brings an internationally familiar name to the event. The more useful clue to the competition, however, is the work the jury will be asked to…
A festival set offers a first encounter with Gnawa, but it is not the whole tradition. The sound sits within a wider world of gatherings, fraternal practices and rituals that connect music with community memory and spiritual life. That distinction…
A photograph of a Moroccan caftan captures the finished silhouette. It usually leaves out the network of work that makes it possible: woven cloth, shaped panels, decorative braid, handmade buttons and embroidery. That hidden sequence is the more revealing way…
