Workshops Cooking School Learn to cook traditional Moroccan food in the heart of the medina with Clock Kitchen. Fez’s first dedicated cooking school. Calligraphy Discover the sacred art of calligraphy with master Mohamed Charkaoui. Fez Download Let us introduce you to Moroccan culture, customs and language with Khalid. In 1:30hrs you will wow your...
Washington Post/Associated Press by Paul Schemm (Marrakech, Morocco, Dec. 8, 2012) — For once, the storytellers, snake charmers and food stalls were gone from Marrakech’s main square and in their place pulsed a crowd of thousands of people waiting to see a legend of Indian cinema who has attained superstar status here in Morocco....
The Tanjazz festival has nothing left to prove. The artistic performances were of very high quality as usual but this 13th edition pushed the envelope even further by allowing the public to discover Karim Kadiri a talented Moroccan oudist. Karim has won the challenge of inserting his Oriental notes into the mix of wind...
Casablanca - HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Wednesday, the Traditional Arts Academy of Casablanca, a new gesture in favor of the craft industry which plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the Moroccan identity. One of the four components of the Hassan II Mosque Foundation, the new Academy mirrors the Sovereign’s insight into the overhauling...
`It doesn’t matter where you live. What matters is that you have a cause to fight for.` When people speak about US-Moroccan relations, they usually invoke politics, war on terror, religious extremism and corrupt politicians. Rarely do they mention individuals, from literature, media and poetry, who work tirelessly to bridge the cultural gap between...
No matter the medium, technique or format, the value of the canvas is found in the event it creates and the emotions it brings. At the intersection of Arabic calligraphy and contemporary painting currents, Mhamed Mrani, in his own words “plays with colours in order to extract the poetic spirit so keeping dreams alive....
