“For every language, there is a person”. So runs a well- known Arabic proverb. Each language has its own distinctive personality which at one and the same time is a […]

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the […]

صفرو جود یا لجؤاد ربي حن عليا جود یا جواد احسب لي خطواتي دیر لیا عداد ف رجليا ونتوما يا مواليا بیکم نشم ريحة البلاد حبي ليكوم الجواد قلبي فرضو […]

There are wonders that await you, wherever you may go in Morocco: in particular the artisanal crafts and traditional ways of life which have survived into the present. For those […]

In their opus entitled “Meaning and Order in Moroccan Societies: Three Essays in Cultural Analysis” Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz and Laurence Rozen discuss life in Sefrou, where Jews, Amazighs, and […]

Multiculturalism can be simply defined as the practice of acknowledging all the cultural constitutive elements and parts of humanity. This includes in essence guaranteeing that different groups have equal chances […]

Sefrou was known as the “little Jerusalem of Morocco” because of its rich religious life and many rabbis who served or learned there. The community itself is thought to have […]

For three days in June each year, the local population of Sefrou celebrates the natural and cultural beauty of the region, symbolized by the cherry fruit and that year’s newly […]