From urban bars to country weddings, Moroccan folk singers break barriers and keep traditions alive

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the melodies of her ancestors under the stage name “Thouria.”Women like her are the stewards of one of Morocco’s most cherished oral traditions: a…

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