Moga festival celebrates 10 years: how essaouira shaped a moroccan festival that went global

Born in Essaouira in 2016, MOGA has grown from an electronic music festival into a platform connecting artists, collectives, communities and destinations, while keeping its Moroccan roots at the centre of the experience.

Ouidad x Trinix: you don’t need to understand Darija to feel DIMA

How Dima brought together two artistic universes through instinct, language and a shared creative connection.

MOHAMED MEHDI BENSAID

On cultural ambition, a new creative generation, and Morocco's next chapter

Tawsen turns CHOKRAN into a webtoon

Created with Papegaai, the two-episode webtoon gives life to Aïna and Sara, two characters born from the visual world of Chokran.

MOHAMED SOUIDID

A creative reimagining moroccan culture through design and image

A room for the work

Twelve years in one studio, and a discipline built on slow looking

The grain of the wall

Marrakech's pink walls hold forty summers of repair in every hand

WANT TO CREATE VISUALS IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?

Three things this week

A record, a rooftop, and a typeface — three things worth your week

A new wing in Casablanca

Villa des Arts expands with a wing built for post-2000 work

Against the aesthetic postcard

Why postcard Morocco keeps arriving pre-composed, and who allows it

MOROCCO, NETHERLANDS AND IDENTITY

When Morocco faces the Netherlands, identity becomes more than a choice

How zellige is cut

One hammer, six centuries — watching a maâlem cut a single tile

Sound before language

Amine T. samples gnawa without turning it into a souvenir

Six metres of indigo

Indigo vats turn cloth green before blue — nine dips, one afternoon

Openings: the autumn slate

What's opening from Tangier to Essaouira, and which shows to catch