Moroccan Jewish musical heritage is taking center stage at SIEL 2026, as the Mimouna Association—founded in 2007 by Muslim ...

Music festivals can sometimes feel repetitive. If you've gone to a few over the summer, just think about how many times you've seen the same artist perform in different cities. Reinventing the wheel ...

Moroccan musician, composer, and actor Abdelwahab Doukkali has died at the age of 85, closing a career that lasted more than five decades and helped shape modern Moroccan music. Doukkali was born in ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

What happens when you combine Spanish, French, African and Arabic music? Bedouin shepherds frequenting the Algerian port of Oran first dived into this mixing bowl in the early twentieth century. What ...

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 ...

Rabat, Jun 12 (EFE) .Rabat, Jun 12 (EFE) . — Artists performing at the Mawazine Festival in Rabat, the venue of the scantily clad U.S. singer Jennifer Lopez controversy on May 29, received a letter on ...

This 4-disc box set, curated by legendary Beat Generation composer and writer Paul Bowles, offers an eye-opening and immersive introduction to Moroccan music. Long considered a 20th-century literary ...