Van, an award-winning Moroccan producer, composer and DJ, has been working since 2000 to develop his own compositions while launching career-defining hits for major Moroccan singers and rappers. This ...

Moroccan documentary The Magic of The Hajhouj won the Gold Winner in the Cultural Documentary category at the 2026 Telly ...

Most people have never heard of Gnawa. Originally you weren't supposed to. For centuries, the music was only played in secret ceremonies by enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco. Gnawa—an ...

Music festivals can sometimes feel repetitive. If you've gone to a few over the summer, just think about how many times you've seen the same artist perform in different cities. Reinventing the wheel ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For centuries ...

Paul Bowles over a five-month period from July to December 1959. It is a snapshot, or perhaps a time capsule, of a culture then relatively pure and unmolested by the world outside. Paul Bowles lived ...

This post is part of our special coverage Morocco Protests 2011. Each year the capital Rabat is the epicenter of a major music festival, Mawazine. Since its modest launch in 2001, Mawazine has grown, ...

The festival is known for creating unexpected collaborations between artists from different musical backgrounds, and this ...

Composer and author Paul Bowles first went to Morocco in 1931. He fell in love with the country, returning often and eventually moving to Tangier, where he lived from 1947 until his death in 1999.

This 4-disc box set, curated by legendary Beat Generation composer and writer Paul Bowles, offers an eye-opening and immersive introduction to Moroccan music. Long considered a 20th-century literary ...