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Tag: Morocco

29 May, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.

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9 January, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

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 on diversity."

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15 December, 2022 • Samia Errazzouki

Moroccans Triumph at World Cup While Press Freedom Suffers

Samia Errazzouki recounts personal experience as a Moroccan American journalist working in Morocco.

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15 December, 2022 • Brahim El Guabli, Aomar Boum

Everyone has a Stake in Morocco’s Football Team

The Moroccan team's World Cup wins have galvanized their Arab and African fans and inspired millions around the world.

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5 December, 2022 • Melissa Chemam

Love Has Everything to Do with Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan

Melissa Chemam reviews the new taboo-busting feature film from Moroccan director Maryam Touzani.

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15 October, 2022 • Abdellah Taïa

“Malika,” an excerpt from Abdellah Taïa’s Vivre à ta lumìere

In this excerpt from a chapter in his latest novel in French, Abdellah Taïa pays homage to his mother, his favorite heroine.

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26 September, 2022 • Nora Ounnas Leroy

Three Ways to See Morocco from Across the Mediterranean

Nora Ounnas Leroy talks to three Moroccan artists participating in a Montpellier incubator project through the Festival Arabesques.

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4 May, 2022 •

A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

Register Here.   The Markaz Review presents a roundtable conversation on Middle Eastern cuisine among contributors to the TMR • 20 FOOD issue, featuring personal stories and family recipes. This… Continue reading A Middle Eastern Food Roundtable, with TMR Writers, Sunday, May 8, 1 PM Eastern

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15 February, 2022 • TMR

LA Sketches: Sneakers and the Man From Taroudant

A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe design.

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24 January, 2022 • Justin Stearns

Arabic and Latin, Cosmopolitan Languages of the Premodern Mediterranean and its Hinterlands

Justin Stearns, a scholar of the pre-modern Muslim Middle East, reviews the new book by Karla Mallette on the fascinating history of two of the world's great languages.

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8 November, 2021 • Deborah Kapchan

A Street in Marrakesh Revisited

In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life in Marrakesh.

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1 November, 2021 • Jordan Elgrably

Victims of Discrimination Never Forget in The Forgotten Ones

TMR reviews a film on discrimination in Israel and the original Jews of the Middle East and North Africa. The Forgotten Ones screened in October’s annual CINEMED festival in Montpellier and screens in the DOC NYC Fest on 11/09 (press screening), 11/14 and 11/15. More info.

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15 September, 2021 • Brahim El Guabli

My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

Brahim El Guabli   I am Amazigh, Black, and Sahrawi. Amazigh language is my mother tongue. My mother is Black, and my father is Sahrawi. The only picture I own… Continue reading My Amazigh Indigeneity (the Bifurcated Roots of a Native Moroccan)

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15 September, 2021 • Karima Ahdad

“Tattoos,” an excerpt from Karima Ahdad’s Amazigh-Moroccan novel “Cactus Girls”

In this excerpt from the Amazigh-Moroccan novel "Cactus Girls" by Karima Ahdad, a fierce small-town girl from the Rif named Sonya remembers what it was like growing up under the spell of heroic women. Like the cactus of the title, Ahdad’s women are survivors in a barren landscape, one filled…

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15 August, 2021 • Aomar Boum

Why COMIX? An Emerging Medium of Writing the Middle East and North Africa

TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.

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