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Souqs
In Morocco, souqs - the market streets of a medina - are often covered with palm fronds
for shade and shelter, and criss-crossed with smaller streets lined with food stalls, store-
rooms and cubby-hole-sized artisans' studios carved into thick mudbrick walls. Unlike
souqs, these smaller streets often do not have names, and are together known as a
qissaria
.
Most
qissariat
are through streets, so when (not if) you get lost in them, keep heading on-
ward until you intersect with the next souq or buy a carpet, whichever happens first.
Medinas: Morocco's Hidden Cities
explores the shadows of ancient Moroccan walled cities, with
painterly images by French photographer Jean-Marc Tingaud and illuminating commentary by
Tahar ben Jelloun.
