Mint, from Greece to Morocco
Mint is one of the most appreciated and exploited plants in the whole Islamic world and especially in Morocco, whose origins, however, are to be found in Ancient Greece The…
Khaled, The Raï
Few musicians are able to become, willy-nilly, the face of their own musical genre. This is the case of Bob Marley, the Beatles and Khaled, the face of the Raï.…
“The Italian” by Shukri Al Mabkhout
A love story during the Tunisian Revolution, Shukri Al Mabkhout enchants and drags into a world that no longer exists. The Italian The story features Abdel Nasser, a young student…
“La Mecque-Phuket” by Saphia Azzedine
Saphia Azzedine's is a simple and clean novel that has no problem in plucking Arab-Muslim society in France and laughing at its oddities. Fairouz The book tells the story of…
“For the Bread Alone” by Mohamed Choukri
A book that has entered, willingly and unwillingly, into the history of Moroccan literature. Mohamed Choukri's biography fully shows what post-WWII Tangier used to be, a text that can only…
From left: Rachid Taha, Cheb Khaled e Faudel
1,2,3 Soleil, the best of Raï
In 1998 the biggest Raï concert ever was staged at the Palasport in Bercy, Paris. Cheb Khaled, Rachid Taha and Faudel ready to celebrate the music of their Algeria, in…
Wish list: books from the Maghreb
To celebrate our two years of activity with you, we offer you our wish list; you chose the theme on Instagram Preamble On June 16, the Middle East and Surroundings…
5 books for the summer
For many, summer represents a moment of relief, a magical period of time to spend as relaxed as possible, perhaps enjoying something beautiful. Precisely for this reason we have chosen…
“The lion of desert” by Mustafa Akkad
The film that most of all highlights the abominations operated by colonialism in Africa, with an eye to fascism, probably the most bleak and abject invention that humanity has been…
“The message” by Mustafa Akkad
The only case of a film as much Hollywood as Islamic, "The message" by Mustafa Akkad tells how the Quranic revelation and the developments that faced the Muslim community in…
