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 ...

The Alliance Française of New Orleans (AFNO) is excited to announce a vibrant collaboration with the New Orleans Public Library, offering a series of free workshops designed to introduce children to ...

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 ...

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RABAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Morocco's Gnawa, heirs to a musical and spiritual tradition brought north across the Sahara centuries ago by black slaves, are enjoying new fame as their hypnotic rhythms ...

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 ...

Atlas Studios, located in Ouarzazate, Morocco, has served as a shooting location for Game of Thrones, Gladiator, and Martin Scorsese’s Kundun. But at about 3 AM on a Sunday in October, it was home to ...

Arabic music videos became the hot topic of the week when blogger Cat in Rabat became ill and was forced to watch TV for a few days. She wrote a fantastic critique of the Lebanese and Egyptian style ...

Brussels - The prestigious Henry Le Boeuf Hall in Brussels resonated on Saturday evening with the rhythms of Arab-Andalusian music and the art of samaa during a memorable performance that highlighted ...

The Olympia will be bathed in the vibrant colors of Morocco for a special evening celebrating music and cultural heritage, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Green March. Scheduled for November 9 ...

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 ...

French Montana continues to show love to his home country. The 38-year-old rapper returned Wednesday with “Morocco,” an anthemic record celebrating the national soccer team’s historic World Cup run.