Alexander Jusdanis investigates how champions of Morocco’s traditional gnaoua music are adapting their practices to stay fresh and keep up with current trends
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Crosstown Traffic
Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili tackles issues of migration, language, and conflict in her ongoing untitled solo exhibition at London’s Lisson Gallery
Meat is Murder
Zoë Hu hangs out with Soukaina Joual in the cafés of Fes to chat with the young Moroccan artist in the flesh about the central place occupied by Morocco - and meat - in her oeuvre
Vicious Circles
Samannaz Kourang Pishdadi talks to Moroccan artist Mounir Fatmi about his upbringing, the Beat writers of America, his philosophies, and his current projects
Maroc and Roll
Find out how Morocco’s Master Musicians of Joujouka have been presenting a heady blend of music and rituals to privileged, select audiences in the heart of the Rif Mountains
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’
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
With references to Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee, among others, Iraqi-Moroccan director Tala Hadid tells tales of hope and hopelessness in her feature-fiction debut film
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
Punk Rock au Maroc
‘Think Siouxsie Sioux and Johnny Thunders, guitars in tow, meet Hindi Zahra in the burned-out basement of a seedy Moroccan haunt …’