Textile and Handcrafts Books
African-Berber Culture – Bert Flint
Amazigh Arts in Morocco; Women shaping Berber Identity – Cynthia J Becker
Arts and Crafts of Morocco – James F. Jereb
Berber Memories: Women and Jewellery in Morocco – Michel Draguet, published 2021
Keepers of the Sheep: Knitting in Morocco’s High Atlas and Beyond – Irene Waggener
Moroccan Carpets – Brooke Pickering, Ralph Sandlin Yohe, and W.R. Pickering
Moroccan Textile Embroidery – Isabelle Denamur
The Fabric of Moroccan Life – Edited by Niloo Imami Pyadar, Curator of Textiles and Costumes at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Ivo Grammet
Women Artisans of Morocco: Their stories, their lives – Susan Schaeffer Davis
General Reading
A House in Fez (non fiction) – Suzanna Clark
A Life Full of Holes – Paul Bowles
A Year in Marrakech – Peter Mayle
Adventures in Morocco: from the souks to the Sahara (non fiction) – Alice Morrison (make sure to follow Alice on Instagram too)
Casablanca Blues – Tahir Shah
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Lords of the Atlas – Gavin Maxwell (out of print, may be hard to get)
Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure (non fiction) – Alice Morrison
Patience and Power: Women’s Lives in a Moroccan Village – Susan Schaefer Davis
The Last Storytellers – Richard Hamilton
The Sheltering Sky – Paul Bowles
The Spider’s House – Paul Bowles
The Sultan’s Wife – Jane Johnson (fiction)
The Tenth Gift – Jane Johnson (fiction)
The Voices of Marrakech: a record of a visit – Elias Canetti
Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue (non fiction) – Paul Bowles
Walking with Nomads – Alice Morrison
Year of the Elephant – Leila Abouzeid
Watch
Babel
Casablanca
Hideous Kinky
Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure (BBC2)
Naked Lunch
The Sheltering Sky
Note: The above lists are by no means exhaustive. If you’d like to recommend a book or movie that you’ve enjoyed or found informative and inspiring, please email us at retreatrecreate@gmail.com
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