Ceuta and the Long Memory of Purity: You are a virus born to die Inside the Line By Mo Hamdouni, Moroccan Epistemologies In everyday usage, ghorba names strangeness and the fact of leaving one’s land under obligation in order to reach another. One hears exile in it immediately, and stops there. But exile presupposes a whole land left behind, a…
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Moroccan Cafe Fight Offers “a Lesson in al-Majdoub”
Mo Hamdouni I almost always take the qahwa bldiya (traditional café) as my observation point when I travel. Not out of exoticism, and not to “watch people” the way one watches an object, but because the qahwa bldiya is a small theatre at the right scale: everything is public and yet discreet; everything is close and yet regulated. The cup,…
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