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

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...

APRIL 1, 2024 • By Benjamin Jones
Reconciling Ouarzazate with Solar Energy in Our Desert Town

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...

JANUARY 15, 2024 • By Brahim El Guabli
The Tate Embraces Morocco with The Casablanca Art School

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...

OCTOBER 9, 2023 • By Sophie Kazan Makhlouf
Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

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.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

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.

AUGUST 14, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Sudden Journeys: Morocco Encore

Sudden Journeys: Morocco Encore

Jenine Abboushi in her latest travel essay, returns to Morocco for a long-overdue visit.

JANUARY 9, 2023 • By Jenine Abboushi
The Afro-Amazigh World Cup Debate Revisited

The Afro-Amazigh World Cup Debate Revisited

A Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco, Brahim El Guabli sees Amazigh identity as embracing "unity based...

JANUARY 9, 2023 • By Brahim El Guabli
Vocalist Samira Brahmia Bridges France and Algeria with Love

Vocalist Samira Brahmia Bridges France and Algeria with Love

For her 11th TMR music column, Melissa Chemam interviews the Algerian-French diva Samira Brahmia.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022 • By Melissa Chemam
Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Al-Koni’s Tuareg Perspective on Islam’s Conquest of North Africa

Iason Athanasiadis reviews the new Ibrahim al-Koni translation of a story that recounts Islam's conquest of North Africa.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022 • By Francisco Letelier
My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

My Amazighitude: On the Indigenous Identity of North Africa

Brahim El Guabli explores his Amazigh roots while championing the struggle of all indigenous peoples.

JUNE 6, 2022 • By Brahim El Guabli
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