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  • Brice Bottin and Yousra Mansour lead the French-Moroccan band Bab L’Bluz
    French-Moroccan band Bab L'Bluz

    Morocco's electrifying abundance

    Swaken is the title of the second album from French-Moroccan quartet Bab L'Bluz. The band based around singer Yousra Mansour delves even further into the facets of the music found between the Atlantic coast and the Sahara

  • The village of Tikht saw most of its homes flattened in Morocco's earthquake.
    Morocco earthquake

    'Finished here' – a village vanishes

    It was delicate work for the searchers to remove the woman's body from the rubble of a village that effectively ceased to exist in Morocco's deadliest earthquake in over six decades

  • In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the Algerian Sahara.
    Berber ritual survives millennia

    Tuareg flock to Algerian desert oasis for ancient festival

    In a riot of colour, music and dance, thousands of Tuareg have flocked to the Sebeiba festival that marks the end of an ancient tribal feud and which once a year transforms an oasis town deep in the Algerian Sahara

  • The Tuareg: literature, language and culture

    "The journey of the princess"

    The term "Tuareg" refers to tribes and nomads who speak dialects of Tuareg and live in Targa, an area in south-west Libya recently renamed Wadi Al-Hayat but previously known as Wadi Ajal. By Mustafa Abdullah Abdulrahman Bashir

  • The album's title is taken from a line of a poem by revolutionary poet Ahmed Fouad Negm: "Who are you and who are we" is repeated over and over again by Biafra, reminding listeners of exactly where they stand in the hierarchy of things.
    Al Qasar’s "Who Are We"

    A hard message for a hard world

    Welcome to the world of Al Qasar, where Arabic music collides head-on with punk and psychedelic to create something powerful and beautiful. "Who Are We" is a raucous, subversive trip into the urban landscapes inhabited by a new generation of Arabs around the world. By Richard Marcus

  • "The number of teaching hours delivered in Morocco in Arabic has dropped from 6,290 to just 3,468 hours. By contrast, the language of Moliere continues to dominate teaching time; teaching hours delivered in French have jumped from 2,788 to 5,610 hours, which is almost two-thirds of the total," writes Taifouri.
    Standard Arabic, Darija, French or English?

    Morocco – a linguistic cold war

    A conflict rooted in identity is currently gaining traction in Morocco. It began with demands to relieve the "burden" of Fusha (classical Arabic) by implementing a linguistic 'shift', thus allowing the use of Darija (Moroccan dialect) in education and teaching. But this approach has backfired massively on its proponents. Commentary by Mohamed Taifouri

  • Women's rights in North Africa

    "The headscarf is losing its religious edge"

    Moroccan sociologist Fatima Sadiqi believes that women's movements in North Africa have changed over the past ten years. Today, women from all social classes are fighting together for more rights, regardless of whether they are "secular" or "Islamic" feminists. Claudia Mende spoke with her for Qantara.de

  • Muslim racism and imperialism

    Power and exclusion

    The outpouring of solidarity worldwide following the violent death of George Floyd should prompt us to step back and fundamentally question racist structures and privileges based on injustice – wherever they exist in the world. An essay by Tayfun Guttstadt

  • Indigenous rights in the Maghreb

    An uphill struggle for Tunisiaʹs Amazigh

    The Amazigh claim that the regimes of Bourguiba and Ben Ali stole their finest asset, namely their culture. Is Tunisiaʹs Jasmine revolution on the way to restoring their rights? By Lina Shanak

  • Social media fosters creative writing in the Maghreb

    Published by Facebook

    Social media has democratised literary publishing, paving the way for young Moroccan writers to publish works which previously would not have enjoyed publication through traditional outlets. By Ismail Azzam

  • Moroccan school curricula

    French, Arabic, Moroccan, Amazigh?

    The debate about the status of Arabic in Moroccan schools continues unabated. With many of the existing colloquial dialects jockeying for recognition, Morocco faces a tough task when it comes to offering effective, balanced linguistic education for all. By Ali Anouzla

  • The Maghrebʹs Moorish-Spanish legacy

    Andalusia begins in northern Morocco

    Any journey to southern Spain, to Al-Andalus, is akin to the start of a dream that finds its beguiling continuation beyond the Pillars of Hercules, in the Andalusian cities of northern Morocco – Tangiers, Chefchaouen, Tetouan, Fes, Meknes, Larache and Asilah. The relationship between Morocco and Spain is closer than we think. By Mourad Kusserow

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