by Geoff | Jul 4, 2023 | Chefchaouen, Chefchaouen, Kif, Morocco, Ouezzane
The green medina of Ouezzane contains an area of small workshops where artisans produce a range of products for the consumption of mostly local inhabitants. Around this artisanal area the haunting tapping of hammers, low drone of power tools and the...
by Geoff | Jul 4, 2023 | Art, Artist, Chefchaouen, Fes, Marabout, Medina, Morocco, Ouezzane, Sufi, Wazzan
This post describes a continued interest in the role and relevance of street art, on this occasion in Morocco. I have visited Morocco on at least 6 occasions over the last decade, and for an extended period of time rented a house in the medina in...
by Geoff | Feb 12, 2020 | Aisha Qandisha, Essaouira, Gnaoua, Hamadcha, Morocco, Moulay Idriss Zerhouna, Northern Africa, Ouezzane, Sherif, Shrine, Sufi, Wazzan, Zaouia
UNFINISHED POST We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. Little Gidding T.S. Elliott It may seem incongruous to entitle a page about Islamic and African culture with...
by Geoff | Dec 1, 2019 | Cemetery, Dâr Damânah, Emily Keene, Morocco, Ouezzane, Tangier
Several weeks ago I wrote a blog post regarding Emily Keane, the Sharifa of Ouezzane, an English woman who, in a remarkable story, married one of the most powerful and spiritual men in Morocco. The post can be read here. Her husband was the Sharif of Ouezzane, ...
by Geoff | Nov 5, 2019 | Medina, Morocco, Ouezzane, Sherif, Sufi, Wazzan
Green is the colour of Islam and olives; Ouezzane has both in abundance. Its ancient medina, painted green throughout, is testament to both its Sufi heritage, and associated Quranic link with olive trees, and its cultivation of olive trees locally. In the Quran...
by Geoff | Nov 3, 2019 | Dâr Damânah, Hadj Ahmed Ben Abdeslam, Morocco, Ouezzane, Sherif, Sufi, Wazzan, Zaouia
Below are extracts from ‘My Life Story, Emily the Shareefa of Wazan’, the remarkable account of Emily Keene’s marriage to the Sharif of Wazzan, Hadj Ahmed Ben Abdeslam, an exalted and powerful religious leader in Morocco directly descended from...
