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The Art Deco heart of the city, where the grandest institutional and corporate art spaces sit among the 1920s-30s architecture that makes Casablanca one of the great modernist cities of the twentieth century. Central Casablanca holds Villa des Arts, the Abderrahman Slaoui museum, and the polished, free-to-enter foundations of the country's big banks, all around Place Mohammed V and the Arab League Park. This is the museum-and-foundation core, distinct from the commercial galleries to the west. The register is institutional and architectural.

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Abstract geometric composition of interlocking angular forms in layered planes of colour.
Editorial

Beirut · Lebanon

Women of Arab Abstraction

The letter set loose, the line woven, the arabesque the West once threw away — and the women who built modern abstraction out of all three, then got written out of it.

Abstraction is usually told as a Western invention that arrived elsewhere late. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Etel Adnan, Madiha Umar and a room of others tell it differently — often as the only woman in the movement, building modern form from the geometry, craft and calligraphy their own culture already held.

A geometric khamsa — an open five-fingered hand with an eye at its centre — in the Kabyle silver style of North Africa.
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Marrakech · Morocco

The Hand That Everyone Named After Their Own

The Khamsa across North Africa — Marrakech, Tunis, Algiers — and why the oldest thing about it is the shape, not the story.

Everyone calls it something different — the Hand of Fatima, the Hand of Miriam, the Hand of Mary. One five-fingered shape, several holy names, each written onto it by a community that made it its own. From a carved hand over the Alhambra's gate to Kabyle silver, synagogue lamps and a boy on a Marseille motorway, this is the story of a symbol older than the names it carries — and shared by more people than any one of them.