Long desired by lovers of this rich musical culture, the inscription of Gnawa this Thursday in Bogota in the Unesco heritage is only justice. Ritual and initiatory music, Gnawa is indeed carried by the descendants of former slaves from sub-Saharan Africa.
’’La Granada Zirí del siglo XI y el universo Bereber’’, this is the name of the exhibition inaugurated by the Queen of Spain Letizia, on Thursday, at the Palacio de Carlos V in the Alhambra in Granada. This opening, which was attended by several personalities from the cultural and political world, aims to promote Berber culture.
On the sidelines of the first edition of the Youth Theater event, an exhibition dedicated to the Riffian Amazigh heritage opened in Al Hoceima. Since Saturday, the various craft products of the Rif region have been honored.
The coexistence between Jews and Muslims in Morocco in the 1940s is a happy bygone era that those who lived it are trying to remember, which brings back to the forefront an emblematic neighborhood of the Mellah of Marrakech.
Morocco continues to attract the greatest directors who choose this destination for the filming of their productions. This is the case of the famous French director, Eric Bacos, who has chosen Marrakech and Ouarzazate, among others, to shoot, from October 22 to 24, documentaries on Morocco as part of his "Horizons-Flavors" series, produced by Ananda Pictures, for the international French-speaking television channel, TV5 Monde.
The first French auction house, Artcurial, announced on Wednesday the opening of a subsidiary in Morocco. It will be exclusively dedicated to the sale of Orientalist paintings and contemporary African art. A strategy to get closer to its clients on the African continent.
35,000 ethnographic pieces consisting of stone tools and organic remains, illegally removed from Morocco and seized by French customs, are about to return home. The Ministry of Culture and Communication is finalizing the procedures to recover them.
With all the cultural potential that Morocco has, its Oued Noun site could be proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List, said the head of the UNESCO Maghreb Office’s "Culture" program, Karim Hendili.
The University of Bordeaux in France has returned to the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage (INSAP) of Morocco 20 objects representing human remains, in the form of bone residues, discovered during excavations in the Rouazi cemetery in Skhirat.
The work of conservation, restoration and enhancement of the Merinid Medersa and the Chellah necropolis has been launched, under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, in partnership with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS).
The demolition of the Holocaust Memorial by the Moroccan authorities for lack of authorization has provoked the anger of the NGO behind the project. It has just demanded compensation of 100,000 euros from the Moroccan state for the losses suffered.
To her great surprise, a researcher in tangible and intangible heritage discovered a house built right in the middle of the outer walls of the city of Marrakech, at Bab Doukkala. Outraged, she took photos that she published on social media to launch an appeal for the protection of heritage.