Narrating the Marrakesh Civilization video series

The Ihyae Foundation’s Marrakesh Civilization programme was one of the first web platforms built to carry the history of the city — its walls and palaces, its scholars, and the people around them. I was asked to narrate the video series that went with it.

The shooting was done in a properly equipped studio, which takes care of the sound and nothing else. In the days before each recording I read the script through several times until the ideas were mine to say rather than lines to read off a page — the difference is audible, and over ten episodes it is the whole thing.

The episodes I narrated

• The great Marrakesh wall

• The ’Ibn Yusuf’ mosque

• Aghmat, the forgotten city

• Masaouda Alwazgitia, the first Saadi royal bride

• The El Badi palace

• Ibn Ruchd the grandson

• The development of philosophy and medicine

• The rock castle

• The Qastali initiatives

• The Morabit woman