Among the most distinctive works of Russian artist Zinaida Serebriakova are the paintings she created in Morocco. She made two trips to the North…

The poet T.S. Eliot famously described April as the “cruellest month”, but the writer Ray Bradbury may be nearer the truth. He named his collection…

As a child, my love for football began to blossom, but the 1986 World Cup in Mexico turned it into a full-blown passion.It was purely by chance that…

In the wake of each Israeli mass exile of Palestinians, the haunting masterpieces of Ismail Shammout reverberate in our mind’s eye.At the forefront…

It’s the love story of a filmmaker and a city: American visionary director Orson Welles partially shot Othello in Morocco’s Essaouira, firmly placing…

Why have short films been forgotten, despite the fact that they started it all?Cinema began with shorts (before moving on to full-fledged feature…

Franz Kafka's letters to Phyllis Bauer, his fiancée, reveal that he only needed 20 days to finish "The Metamorphosis," between November 17 and…

From the title to the storyline and their characters, Moroccan writers seem to be obsessed with featuring animals in their novels.The fascination can…

Novels and cinema may seem to exist on parallel lines, but they can be much more intertwined than it first appears, with occasional clashes erupting…