March 14
Egypt: Zakariah Ibrahim - 1952_2024
On February 12, Egypt lost one of its greatest champions of traditional culture. Zakariah Ibrahim, director of the El Mastaba Center for the Preservation of Egyptian Folk Music,… Read more »
January 10
Morocco: Beyond Borders: "Jarama" Fuses Gnawa Traditions with Dub, Funk, and Rock
Saïd Tichiti is a Morrocan-born musician based in Hungary since 1998. There he founded the fusion ensemble Chalaban, which released six albums over a 20-year span. Their music… Read more »
December 08, 2023
Morocco: Deborah Kapchan On the Gnawa of Morocco
Deborah Kapchan is a professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and the principle voice for Afropop Worldwide's Hip Deep program, Traveling Spirit Masters: The Gnawa… Read more »
Morocco: The Lure and Lore of Gnawa
The Gnawa musical healers of Morocco are a perennial fascination within the broad tableau of the Afropop story. They bring together potent themes--slavery and its legacy of… Read more »