Joobin Bekhrad catches up with Hassan Hajjaj to discuss being decorated by King Mohammed VI, growing up in Morocco and England, and a recent exhibition about black dandyism
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Karima
Joobin Bekhrad’s take on Hassan Hajjaj’s fly-on-the-wall documentary about a day in the life of Karima, a henna girl in Marrakech’s Djemaa El Fnaa
The Reed Flute
‘Morocco was not a place that would give you the luxury of forgetting it; it seeped, slowly but surely, into your bones, and burned its image between your eyes’
Voices of Marrakech
After sojourns in Alexandria and Beirut, German audiophiles Julia Tieke and Berit Schuck turned their ears towards the historic Medina of Marrakech
The Masked Man of Morocco
Sarah Quinn on the works of Moroccan artist Yassine Balbzioui, who will be performing at this year’s edition of the Marrakech Biennale
Cheikh, Rattle and Roll
A chat with record producer and audiophile Dave Murray about a recent compilation of ‘raw’ tracks from the ‘Golden Age’ of the Moroccan record industry
Redefining the Rock Star
‘This is a being unshaken by the ravages of time, defying practice, medium, and creed … The rock star is dead. Long live the rock star’