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Fez Medina, 2009: Our guide meets an old friend and greets him with the traditional kiss on both cheeks. I have the idea that this custom was learned from the French who colonized Morocco for 53 years. Most Moroccans are … Continue reading
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Morocco’s Guir Desert 2006 My guide, Ali Mouni, used to take his friends or family with us when we went to look for nomads near his home village of Merzouga. These men had no vehicle and would jump at the … Continue reading
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I first read about the Barb Horse and Morocco when I was about 8 or 9 years old. I loved to read then, as I still do today, and I checked out Marguerite Henry’s book King of the Wind from … Continue reading
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Sahara Desert 2006 … somewhere in Mauritania. I thought you’d like to see what a nomad’s tent looks like inside. This is a Mauritanian tent and is different from the Moroccan tent I showed you a couple of days ago. The … Continue reading
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Morocco: Circa 1995 A Berber Nomad woman spots us standing on a nearby hill and runs to her tent. Most likely she is not afraid, but she is shy. She will be obliged by custom to let us enter her tent … Continue reading
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A Virtous Woman Morocco, Tafilalet Region A Berber nomad sits in front of her tent and spins. She has been widowed and she no longer travels from one spot to the other. Her home is her tent. The wool she … Continue reading
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Morocco’s desert, near the ancient caravan city of Siljilmassa. I met a Berber boy years ago and through him, his family. I’ve kept in touch with them for nearly 20 years. The boy, now a man, used to take me … Continue reading
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We’d been driving in the desert looking for nomads to photograph when we found this woman and her family. They were breaking camp, well, she was. She was rushing around, her long skirts flying, as she gathered her goats and … Continue reading
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Eastern Morocco, somewhere near Algeria. I went to this market because it was supposed to be frequented by nomads selling their flocks of sheep in this unpopulated area. Many of the men selling had walked nearly a hundred miles with … Continue reading
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This portrait of a Berber man from the Tafilalet region of Morocco didn’t need any special software to make it dramatic. The blood of the tribes who conquered Spain and reached to Tours, France (A.D. 711) runs in his veins. His … Continue reading
