Chefchaouen
“The men in the café encouraged me to smoke kif and eat majnoun. Daytimes it was kif and work, but at night it was majnoun and fun.”
For Bread Alone, Mohamed Choukri
Essaouira
Marrakesh
“The strident noise of the badly recorded call to prayer emitted five times a day from the loudspeaker: no longer a call to prayer, but an incitement to riot. The noise of the city rising and hanging suspended just above his room, until the wind dispersed or dissipated it.” The Sand Child, Tahar Ben Jelloun
Fez
“It delighted him that this anonymous, barefoot Berber should want to guide him through the darkest, least frequented tunnels of the city… These were a feline, nocturnal people. It was no accident that Fez was a city without dogs.”
The Spider’s House, Paul Bowles
