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📚 We are incredibly proud to celebrate 17+ years of dedicated service to the prestigious Bibliothèque Nationale de France! Since 2007, we've been honored to support the BNF's mission by providing essential periodical resources from the Maghreb and North Africa.

Thank you to the BnF for 17 years of trust and collaboration. Here’s to many more years of preserving and sharing knowledge!

Ketabook is proud to announce a new approval plan partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—America's first public university— bringing essential North African scholarly publications to one of the nation's most distinguished research libraries.

Writer Anissa M. Bouziane's heritage in Morocco reflects in her creative output, from her experiences in film to her 2019 novel, Dune Song. We spoke to discuss her influences and her take on "linguistic polyphony," a literary technique that combines the norms, styles and histories of multiple languages to enrich narrative. Bouziane was born in the US state of Tennessee, but she moved to Morocco while still an infant. Her family left again to the US, but soon thereafter again returned to Morocco, where Bouziane completed her primary education. She eventually returned to the US to attend Wellesley College, where she...

RICHARD HENRY This pierced stone screen at the mosque of Ibn Tulun, Cairo, produced in the ninth century CE, sets a biomorphic, leaf design at the center of each 12-pointed star. For our next journey into the art of Islamic patterns, we visit Marrakesh, Morocco, where we find a stunning carved stucco design on a wall in the Qasr al-Bahiyah. The design is framed within a niche topped by muqarnas, the characteristic stalactite-like forms that often articulate the transition from a wall to a dome, a vault or, as in this beautiful example, the upper span of an interior niche....

Romanticized by Hollywood and toyed with by European architects, Casablanca sprawls along the sea and gnaws steadily at its outskirts, much as other modern metro areas where growth seems to have all happened pretty much in the last century. Known colloquially by both Arabic speakers and others simply as “Casa,” it is a conglomeration of chaos and contradictions, heritage and kitsch; brutal and beautiful, unsettling and inviting, ephemeral and enduring. It is a merge lane for past, present and future that leads to a collision of Moroccan artisanship and European modernism. It’s also a city where 23-year-old author and architect...