It's hard to miss Jemaa El Fna. Sitting at the center of the medina, this open-air square stands as the city's main gathering spot. By day, Jemaa El Fna hosts dozens of entertainers, from snake ...

This week on Global Note we bring you music from a place in Morocco; Jemaa El Fna, which can be translated to mean “the rendezvous of death." But the music is very much alive. Some of the instruments ...

This 5-star hotel sits very close to the heart of the Medina, delivering the amenities I wanted in a stay without sacrificing a traditional Moroccan feel. The post How this Marrakesh hotel gave me a ...

MARRAKESH — As the afternoon sun radiated onto Jemaa el-Fna square in the old medina quarter of the city, nine bodies emerged before me on the ground, beatboxing and gyrating, surrounded by curious ...

Marrakech fest jury prexy, Martin Scorsese, was visibly delighted to screen “Hugo” in Marrakech’s most famous landmark – the world heritage square, Place Jemaa el Fna. As an ode to storytelling and ...

When the Marrakech film festival was launched in 2001 it received a somewhat lukewarm reception from certain quarters of the local film industry and media, because it was viewed as an alien implant ...

Perhaps one of the most lively squares in the world even though its name means 'Place of the dead'. The barrows of the orange-juice squeezers and nut vendors encircle the square within which musicians ...