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 ...

In 1959, Paul Bowles traveled around Morocco to record as much traditional music as he could. A new box set of those recordings tells almost as... Composer and author Paul Bowles first went to Morocco ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The wealth of rap talent bubbling up in Morocco is far from a secret. The North African country has been churning out some of the finest in Arab-speaking rap for quite some time now, but the West is ...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced a major musical event in Morocco ahead of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, featuring globally renowned artists including Moroccan-American rapper ...

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 ...