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THE MEDERSA BEN YOUSSEF

A KORANIC SCHOOL   The architecture of the Medersa Ben Youssef in Marrakech is so delicate and …

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IN THE PORT OF ESSAOUIRA

  One could spend hours looking at the boats, watching and listening to the seagulls The howlin…

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THE MELLAH OF MARRAKECH

  ELIAS CANETTI, IMPRESSIONS OF THE MELLAH In 1953, the writer Elias Canetti, Nobel Price in Li…

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BAHIA PALACE…OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY

“Bahia” The beautiful, the magnificent, the brilliant, the radiant…The list of the…

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MECHOUI ALLEY

At the corner of an alley, once passed the Olive Souk, very close to the mosk on Jemaa El Fna Square…

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WORD BOX 3 Tlata

Communicate, understand each other… Exchange words, gestures and, above all, smiles! Moroccans lov…

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MOROCCAN PASTRIES

The alleys of the medina are always perfumed with the scent of the Moroccan pastries which are celeb…

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MOROCCAN MEDINAS

WHAT DOES MEDINA MEAN? How could we define a medina? We could say it is just the ‘old townR…

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ARGAN OIL: REALLY MIRACULOUS?

AN ELIXIR The Argan oil is such a successful product! One must admit it is particularly interesting …

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CRAFTMEN’S SONGS

MAKE BEAUTY   “Wow, look at that!”  Exclamations of surprise and amazement arise in the va…

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