Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Susan Ossman

Susan Ossman is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain in Rabat and the author of Picturing Casablanca (University of California Press, 1994).

MER Article

Boom Box in Ouarzazate

In 1987, during one of my first visits to Morocco, I attended a series of rock concerts in Marrakesh with a group of friends who had been invited to the event to represent their youth group. The organizers of the concerts, the local Grand Atlas association, invited us to tour the medina. During one

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