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Mustapha’s Sefrou Story
Mustapha, a kind weaver from the heart of the medina, spoke to us about the Sefrou of his childhood – a Sefrou where Jews and Muslims lived and worked as […]
Subsaharan Migration in Sefrou
Though much attention in recent years has focused on sub-Saharan Africans attempting to reach Europe, migration within West Africa is roughly nine times larger than movements from the region toward […]
Arts-based engagement ethnography
Here at the Sefrou Association for Multidisciplinary Arts – SAMA – we are always looking for new ways to gather and present knowledge and research with and about Sefrou and its community. One current […]
Memories of Sefrou
Le Maroc, pour moi, né à Fès en 1947, c’est d’abord Sefrou où nous avons habité de 1949 à 1958. Mon père vient d’être nommé directeur de l’antenne locale de […]
Zettata and Nisba: the Makings of Multiculturalism
The zettata In the narrow sense, a zettata (from the Berber tazettat, “a small piece of cloth”) is a passage toll, a sum paid to a local power (Arabic: zettāt; […]
The Sunday Market of Guigou
Above is a short film we made of visiting the market of Guigou. For the narration of the video, I used material from the celebrated Sefrou anthropologist, Professor Clifford Geertz. […]
Trade and Turn-of-the-century Sefrou
Though Sefrou is today essentially a regional market, a place where half-commercialized tribesmen meet super-commercialized shopkeepers on free if somewhat less than equal ground, it has not always been thus. […]
Contemporary Poetry from the Heart of Sefrou (Part II)
Last week, we posted a video of Soufiane Elouahhabie performing his poem, titled Sefrou. In this week’s video, below, Soufiane guides us through what this poem is about. He also […]
Contemporary Poetry from the Heart of Sefrou
Soufiane Elouahhabie is an oral and written poet from Sefrou. He has published his work in print (click here for a link to an earlier post of two poems by […]
Inspired by the Museum Collection: Mezuzah
In our museum collection is a mezuzah scroll, formerly used by a Jewish household in Sefrou. A mezuzah also once hung on the right-hand post of the bridge to the […]