The Marrakech Diaries

The Making of Marrakech

Why Marrakech keeps performing itself, Meknes has nothing to prove, and Fez completely unravels you

Jun 18 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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May 2026

The Friction of Belonging

On the uneasy coexistence of memory, development, and daily life

May 14 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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April 2026

Out of Time

Dispatches from spring in Marrakech and what remains out of sync

Apr 25 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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March 2026

Open Ground

On houses that disappear — and the brief instants when Marrakech remembers

Mar 20 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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February 2026

Show me the Banksy!

Myth, market, and the question of what remains of street art once it becomes an attraction

Feb 15 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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December 2025

Between Art and Concrete

Marrakech 2025. Observations from a city under reconstruction

Dec 27, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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Taxi Tales

Understanding a City and Its Power Relations from the Back Seat, and from Stillness.

Dec 12, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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November 2025

Travelling without Moving

On travelling in the age of social media – and on a city’s struggle against its own commodification.

Nov 18, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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A Walk on the Wild Side

How I learned to fall into step with a defiant city. Part I of an ongoing encounter with Marrakech.

Nov 6, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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October 2025

The City That Wasn’t Asked

A travel essay about urbanism, utopias, and the disappearance of public space.

Oct 24, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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Freedom — Who Said That?

On the Simultaneity of Art, Urban Tensions, and the Signs of the Times

Oct 8, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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September 2025

Medina, mon amour. But.

A summer of leaving, longing, and loud streets

Sep 29, 2025 • Emilias Marrakech Diaries

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