This week on Global Note we bring you music from a place in Morocco; Jemaa El Fna, which can be translated to mean “the rendezvous of death." But the music is very much alive. Some of the instruments ...

Marrakech's ancient Jemaa el Fna Square is a delicious melting pot of exquisite local cuisine by night and a bustling shopping plaza by day. When in Marrakech, eat where the locals eat. And they're ...

Marrakech fest jury prexy, Martin Scorsese, was visibly delighted to screen “Hugo” in Marrakech’s most famous landmark – the world heritage square, Place Jemaa el Fna. As an ode to storytelling and ...

Stories are everywhere in Morocco, land of the Thousand and One Nights and origin of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ala Baba. And Morocco’s legacy of storytelling remains alive from Jemaa El- Fna, ...

When the Marrakech film festival was launched in 2001 it received a somewhat lukewarm reception from certain quarters of the local film industry and media, because it was viewed as an alien implant ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 1998 UNESCO started a new programme for the declaration of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, a pre-project for ...

RABAT, March 26 (KUNA) -- Jemaa El-Fna Museum, located in the heart of Marrakech, exhibits a riveting display of the UNESCO world heritage site, Jemaa El-Fna's square history. The museum allows ...

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Video maker Hisham Mayet spends an evening strolling through Jemma El Fna, a huge public square in Marrakech, and capturing impromptu performances by an assortment of street musicians. This low-budget ...

December is a tempting month in which to visit Marrakech, with its mild temperatures and blue skies. Sitting on the rooftop terrace of the Café de France – the history of which stretches back to 1912, ...