To support Why Morocco, please consider buying me a coffee nouss nouss.
This week I’m joined by Abderrazak Houdzi, owner of Ateliers D’Ailleurs, a company that encourages its clientele to roll up their sleeves and learn a Moroccan craft or trade in Marrakech. Through the workshops Ateliers D’Ailleurs organizes, I’ve had the chance to make a pair of traditional Moroccan slippers, piece together a mosaic tile and hammer a copper bowl during the three-hour sessions that take place in artists’ studios throughout the medina. But it’s about more than just the craft. It’s the opportunity to meet the maker and hear his or her story. To chat about his trade and understand how he became master. It’s the chance to meet the person responsible for the goods you might find for sale in the souks. It’s the opportunity to laugh and share a couple cups of tea in between producing something to take home. In fact, I always leave feeling so grateful for the opportunity to gain some insight in to local artisan life.
To support Why Morocco, please consider buying me a coffee nouss nouss.
For more Morocco ideas and advise, follow me on Instagram at @ms.mandy.sinclair
My other projects include:
Why Morocco bonus – Author Adrienne Chinn on creative writing and the energy of Marrakech
Why Morocco 033 – Life coach Ray Beach on Drift and Design
Why Morocco 032 – Amino Belyamani on Moroccan Tapes
Why Morocco 031 – Touria El Glaoui on the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Why Morocco 030 – Lonely Planet travel writer Helen Ranger on Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains
Why Morocco 029 – Meryam Demnati on Amazigh culture in Morocco
Why Morocco 028 – Aziza Chaouni on architectural restoration projects in Morocco
Why Morocco 026 – Imad Dahmani on modernist architecture in Casablanca
Why Morocco 025 – Justina Tulloch on living, visiting and doing business in Casablanca
Why Morocco 024 – Shiraz Ksaiba on leaving London and pursuing a creative life in Taghazout Morocco
Why Morocco 022 – Aida Alami on reporting from Morocco
Why Morocco 021 – Richard Hamilton on writing Tangier: From the Romans to the Rolling Stones
Why Morocco 020 – Rose Button on experiencing the holy town of Moulay Idriss, Morocco
Why Morocco 019 – Cris Martinus from Sun Trails on summer holidays in Morocco
Why Morocco 018 – Alice Morrison on trekking along the Draa River
Why Morocco 017 – On visiting Morocco during Ramadan
Why Morocco 016 – Fulbright Scholar David Packer on Moroccan ceramics
Why Morocco 015 – Artist Christo on his Femmes exhibition at the Yves Saint Laurent museum in Marrakech
Why Morocco 014 – Author Saeida Rouass on historical fiction and her Moroccan-British heritage
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Concrete Pastures Podcast
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
Points Talk with the Travel Mom Squad
Travel with Rick Steves
Frequent Miler on the Air