From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
Women folk singers are preserving one of Morocco’s most cherished culturual traditions, a genre of folk singing known as aita ...
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From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
Women like her are the stewards of one of Morocco’s most cherished oral traditions: a form of folk singing known as aita, which means a “cry” or “lament” in Arabic. From smoky bars and ...
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From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
a genre of folk singing known as aita SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco -- Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love ...
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From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco (AP) — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the ...
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From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive
Women dance as Cheikha folk singer Mbarka ''Thouria'' Moullablad gives a traditional performance known as Aita, in Sidi Yahya Zaer, south of the capital Rabat, Morocco, Monday, Jan. 27 ...