El Jadida - Among Muslims, charity is not a matter of courtesy. It is a religious injunction. God enjoins all...

On the tenth of Muharram, the custom goes that women like men are on course for cemeteries to visit their...

El Jadida - The Internet revolution has produced new social identities and relations our offline so-called postmodern world does not...

Ashura seems to be the most convenient ritual occasion in Moroccan lore to practice charming spells by some women on...

El Jadida - Generally, Moroccan women are not invested with continual cultural authority like men. In popular culture, they are...

El Jadida - Historically, Ashura does not belong to the solar agrarian calendar. It is held on the tenth of...

El Jadida - Anthropologically speaking, the popular Islamic ritual of Ashura has been approached as a pagan survival in Morocco. There...

El Jadida - Taking our cue from the Frankfurt school’s anti hegemonic political stance against the consumerist de-educating culture of capitalism,...

El Jadida, Morocco - The social representation of the other in the Moroccan popular culture of Islam is mainly grounded...