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.
A young artisan from Taroudant, Morocco now calls Los Angeles home and brings a particular flare to shoe design.
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.
In which the editor of "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" remembers her introduction to life in Marrakesh.
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.
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)
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…
TMR’s guest editor Aomar Boum admires the growing movement of political cartooning in North Africa and the Middle East.
Aomar Boum, guest editor of TMR’s COMIX issue, heralds the work of master cartoonist Abdelaziz Mouride in mentoring a new generation of Moroccan artists.
The Lebanese cartoonist and BD historian George “Jad” Khoury gives an in-depth overview of contemporary comix across the Arab world.
Algeria’s leading cartoonist reminisces on his start in bandes dessinées in Algeria, Poland and France.
Brahim El Guabli writes about the Amazigh leader and resistance fighter Abdelkarim who inspired great Moroccan graphic novels.
Anthropologist and comix author Sherine Hamdy provides a brief overview of new and recent Arab & Middle Eastern women’s political cartooning.
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
There are some walls we can't discuss freely and openly without inviting censure. This is one of them.
BookFabulous' Rana Asfour delivers capsule reviews of three recent North African novels from Libya and Morocco.