Moroccan superstar, Manal, to talk about her return to music, navigating motherhood, activism in her home country, and ...

A joint Italian-Moroccan concert presented at the 2025 Fez Festival of World Sacred Music has received the “Mercurio Alato” prize.

Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...

Always without formulating the concept, I had based my sense of being in the world partly on an unreasoned conviction that certain areas of the earth’s surface contained more magic than others. Had ...

Morocco’s 2025 festival season is kicking off, offering a vibrant mix of genres from pop and rap to sacred and traditional music across cities like Casablanca, Rabat, Fès, and Essaouira. Yabiladi ...

Lamiae Naki (left) and Nat Hulskamp, shown here in a provided photo, founded the Portland-based ensemble Seffarine. The band's show at the Alberta Rose Theatre on Nov. 5 will benefit earthquake relief ...

Said Tichiti, founder of the Budapest, Hungary-based band Chalaban, is excited to lead the group on its first tour of North America, from Montreal to New York, Miami and Los Angeles — with a stop in ...

Gnawa music is often likened to American blues and gospel. Gnawa music is a mixture of African rhythms and Islamic poetry created by enslaved West Africans brought to Morocco. For centuries, it was ...

“My Winter Term trip to Morocco was truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” says Megan “Meg” A. Benedict ’13. “I learned so much from being there. Now, I have firsthand knowledge of another culture’s ...

For centuries after the expulsion from Spain, Morocco’s Sephardic Jewish women sang of love, loss and identity. Now, they’re almost all gone. By Aida Alami TANGIER, Morocco — They sang to put their ...

Arabs, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Sufis, sub-Saharan Africans and miscellaneous remnants of colonialism all inform “native” Moroccan culture. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the country’s music ...