Medinas
Subtitle: Morocco's Hidden Cities
Contributors: Jean Marc Tingaud (Photographer)
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: October 1998
Language: eng; ara
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9782843230516
Subjects: Photographs: collections; Places & peoples: general interest; Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; Documentary Photo Collections; Photography; History - General History; Photo Essays; Africa; Africa - General; Photoessays & Documentaries; Morocco; Photography, Artistic; Pictorial works
Description: Photographs of the Moroccan medinas, or Muslim districts, of Marrakech, Essaouira, Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Tetuan, Fez, and Meknès, capturing the historic past of a country over a thousand years old. Photos are accompanied by a series of poems by Morocco's foremost author, Tahar Ben Jelloun, who used the images as a direct source of inspiration for his writing.