Morocco
My name is Badr, and I'm a freelance writer based in Casablanca. I write mostly about arts, culture, and music
In his latest collection titled Lost in Morocco, Hakim Benchekroun attempts to capture the uncanny effect of the liminal spaces between presence and absence, and the gradual transition into decay. What he calls "transitional territories", offer a new perspective on motifs that have been recurrent in Moroccan photography.
Saturday morning on the last week of summer, just a few kilometres off the Blondin Bridge, linking Mohammedia and Mansouria across an estuary covering a small gulf on the coast, a medium-sized but committed community of skateboarders, musicians, surfers and street artists are helping put together the first edition of l'Classic Invitation Festival .
La MENART Fair, dont la 2ème édition s'est tenue du 19 au 22 mai à Paris, est désormais l'une des plus grandes manifestations artistiques dédiées aux scènes artistiques de la région MENA (Moyen-Orient et Afrique du nord). Lors de cette édition, la MENART Fair a mis à l'affiche les oeuvres de...
بالعربي Words by Badr Sellak Images: Samia Gamal photographed by Loomis Dean, at The Latin Quarter Club, New York, 1952This article is part of the " Ya Leil Ya Eyein " issue Belly dancing has seen both revival and deep crisis over the past few decades.
Despite still to even release a first album Morocco's ISSAM has, in the last two years, stood as a symbol of his home country's burgeoning rap scene, as well as that of its North African neighbours. But what is it about the artist that has drawn in millions of views online?
Pour la dernière édition du Salon International de l'Edition et du Livre, la littérature africaine est à l'honneur. De par sa diversité linguistique et culturelle, et son récent essor artistique et littéraire, l'identité africaine se réinvente et remet en cause sa position de périphérie du monde contemporain.
Casablanca 1907 - 1965. Démesure d'un Urbanisme est le dernier livre de l'essayiste et chercheur Ahmed Chitachni. Publié par La Croisée Des Chemins, cet ouvrage traite l'issue d'un aménagement disproportionné, et l'étalement urbain qui caractérise Casablanca, en retraçant ses origines et l'époque coloniale ; la genèse de sa reconstruction.
La publicité marocaine et les jeunes consommateurs... C'est une longue histoire ! Petit tour d'horizon des changements, des dernières tendances et de leurs impacts sur les médias. Et puis surtout, ce qui manque par rapport aux marchés internationaux.
In recent years, a growing number of indie rock bands have begun writing their songs in Darija, the dialect of Arabic used in everyday conversation in Morocco. The result is music inspired by both contemporary art and local heritage.
Raskas is an independent post-rock/experimental electronica music group formed in Casablanca in 2013, and consisting now of only two members. According to the their bio: "the name [Raskas] comes from a rare kind of "fish" that stays alive around 72 hours after being taken out of the water.