1/3 map made by Sanaa F. (28) of the so-called ‘core’ of the Hay Mohammadi district in Casablanca, an infamous quarter once associated with Modernist planning, and nowadays synonymous with socio-economic precarity, marginalization, and contested slum relocation campaigns.
a subjective map by Sara M. (22) of the ‘Cite SOCICA’ and its surrounding quarters in Casablanca. SOCICA is a former factory workers’ housing estate built during the French Protectorate in Morocco.
map by Fatna El Bouih, former political detainee, imagining the future uses of past carceral spaces and colonial architectures in Hay Mohammadi.
1/3 Selections from a disposable camera, photo-diary exercise I undertook with marginalized youth during my PhD research in Morocco.
Derb or small street in Hay Mohammadi, Morocco, 2014.
Home interior, Hay Mohammadi, Morocco, 2014.
This is a short segment from a collaborative video project I was involved with in Morocco - Her Story. Shot, edited and produced together with Courtney Kern, Kawtar Shiryia and Najat El Wafi in 2010, in various locations across Morocco, the video highlights stories of women who have struggled with social, personal, and economic adversity. It portrays their stories as emblematic examples of the struggles and success of women and girls in a developing country setting.
This video was produced while I was a student with the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab in 2008.
It is meant as an experimental and critical response to histories of ethnographic filmmaking and the colonialist, patriarchal gaze of earlier representations of the 'other'.