Celebrating Moroccan Art

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Celebrating Moroccan Art *

  • Story 01. Ismail Zaidy

  • Story 02. Eyesofnasser

  • Story 03. Sarah Amrani

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Our platform highlights Moroccan art, and shares it with the world. We celebrate Moroccan art through storytelling. 

Art Auction for Morocco. Picture by Ebru Aydin. Artwork by Karima Choukeri

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Our podcast Radio Atay explores the stories behind artworks, music, books, history, and Moroccan creatives.

View fullsize What do you do when inspiration runs dry? For Moroccan artist Zineb Bouchra, the answer was simple: start with yourself. Faced with an art block, she let go of the pressure to create something deep and began redrawing her own face, again and again.
View fullsize Amine Habti is a self-taught artist living in Amsterdam. His work combines screen printing, digital art, and painting, often infused with nostalgia. Deeply conceptual, his art tells stories rooted in memory, culture, and heritage. He reuses pop cultu
View fullsize BLADI بلادي × STUDIO أَطْلَس Zina and Ayman each show, in their separate self-portrait series, how the legacy of Moroccan migration lives on—through image, memory, and pride. In the 50s and 60s, many Moroccans migrated to Europe to work i
View fullsize Eid ul fitr Mubarak! 🙏🏽❤️ Atik Mouatssim, a young photographer from Salé, Morocco, captures the Eid al-Fitr prayer in his hometown. This visual story documents the celebration marking the end of Ramadan — a moment that embodies the st
View fullsize Did you know there’s a small town in Morocco that turns into an open-air art gallery every summer? Just 30 min from Tangier, Asilah is where murals, music, and community come together in the most magical way. Every July, locals paint the walls
View fullsize Born in France in 1995, Sarah Smahane was raised by her immigrant Moroccan parents in a small, quiet, suburban town in France.
Her artist name is not insignificant. “Smahane” is a middle name given to her by her late paternal grandfather
View fullsize “Tangier is home. It’s where I grew up, where my roots are, and where my inspiration comes from. The mix of cultures, the old medina, the kasbah, the ocean,it all shaped how I see the world. Tangier has many beautiful and inspiring place
View fullsize In 1600, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud arrived in England as Morocco’s ambassador to Queen Elizabeth I. His portrait, the oldest known image of a Muslim in Britain, now hangs in Birmingham. Some believe his presence may have inspired Shakespeare&
View fullsize Morocco isn’t just my heritage: it’s the foundation of my identity, my artistry, and the lens through which I see the world. Even as a baby moving to the U.S., it never left me. In a fast-moving, global landscape, it’s what makes me
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