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Amazigh

30 August, 2024 • Laëtitia Soula

Festival Arabesques Fetes Arab Arts for Cultural Diversity

Celebrating the 19th Rencontre des Arts du Monde Arabe, Festival Arabesques will be held from September 10 to 22, 2024, in Montpellier.

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12 July, 2024 • Brahim El Guabli

Morocco’s Bīylmawn Festival and the Threat of Cultural Attrition

The Bīylmawn festival has recently made a comeback but not everyone is pleased with the highly stylized and artistically reimagined carnival.

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1 April, 2024 • Benjamin Jones

Nass El Ghiwane’s Moroccan Folk, Radical Politics, Forged in Paris

Paris provided the grit and opportunity for Nass el Ghiwane to hone a new sound that would rock the Magreb and Europe, writes Benjamin Jones.

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15 January, 2024 • Brahim El Guabli

Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

As a solar power plant overtakes a Moroccan desert town, reconfiguring its visual and territorial makeup, there are worries it might overshadow its rich cultural history.

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5 November, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Experimental Saharanism: Exploiting Desert Environments

Brahim El Guabli urges us to studying deserts to push our thinking beyond ordinary notions of space and place.

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9 October, 2023 • Sophie Kazan Makhlouf

The Tate Embraces Morocco with The Casablanca Art School

Sophie Kazan reviews a colorful exhibition that conveys Moroccan history and culture via paintings, ceramics, photographs, 1960s and 1970s film footage, woven textiles and posters.

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25 September, 2023 • Aomar Boum

Donkeys and Mules—Motors of the High Atlas Mountains

Aomar Boom describes the centrality of donkeys and mules to life in the unforgiving earthquake-shattered terrain of the High Atlas Mountains.

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25 September, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

Brahim El Guabli argues that Morocco's disaster survivors must be able to communicate in their mother tongue.

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11 September, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Death is a Traitor: Living the Morocco Earthquake from the US

Moroccan Amazigh scholar Brahim El Guabli learned that his family in Ouarzazate lost their home in the earthquake that hit Friday night.

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11 September, 2023 • Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Resilience Amidst the Ruins: Nfis Valley Endures After the Quake

A Moroccan scholar from the earthquake region, Aomar Boum, and his UCLA colleague Sarah A. Stein, provide more context on the Atlas Mountains communities hit by the temblor.

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4 September, 2023 • TMR

World Picks: Festival Arabesques in Montpellier

The largest festival of Arab and North African music takes place each year in Montpellier: Arabesques is quite the two-week extravaganza.

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14 August, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

Brahim El-Guabli identifies how Amazigh activists have engaged with translation to revitalize their threatened language and culture.

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