| Description |
This article documents my personal journey as a female storyteller in Marrakech, doing a profession that is traditionally reserved for men. Hailing from an Amazigh family, my earlier exposure to storytelling was via my grandmother. As an indigenous group, storytelling has been a way we carry and transmit our collective history. Later, when I moved to Marrakech, my experience with storytelling evolved by being professionally trained to be a storyteller by the master of storytelling, Hajj Ahmed Ezzarghani, in Café Clock Marrakech, where I performed storytelling under his guidance. Café Clock plays an important role in safeguarding Moroccan storytelling heritage through its cultural activities and storytelling programs. Thanks to work in the field of girls’ education by NGOs such as Project Soar, such opportunities are now also accessible to women and girls. In addition, this article also talks about how storytelling is used as a means of peace-building and conflict transformation by creating a space for mediation, reconciliation, and inspiration. |
