(1) Ksar dyal b7ar, August 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(2) Ma3kouda, 2019, Medina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(3) Skatepark Nevada, Casablanca, July 2020, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(4) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(5) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(6) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(7) April 2019, Rue Farhat Hachad, Mers Sultan, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(8) Place Boujloud, April 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(9) 9bl lftour, May 2019, Al Atlas, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(10) Hanout, June 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(11) Fes, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(12) Ecole primaire Ibn Al-Khatib, May 2019, Aïn Sebaa, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(13) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(14) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(15) Hay Mohammadi (Su9 lklb), May 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(16) Niddam et Assuline (ed.), 'Fez. - La Carrosse de Gala de S.M. Moulay-Hafid', Postcard, 1909, find on Ebay.
(17) 'Le Sultan Moulay-Youssef en grande céremonie', in the series: Le Maroc illustré, find on Ebay.
(18) Eugène Fumey, Choix de correspondances marocaines, p. 19 (letter), pp. 119–120 (Translation and commentary by Eugène Fumey).
(19) Rabat, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(20) Flandrin, framed photo of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, 1927, find on Ebay.
(21) Carte de visite, Cadres Nancy, Casablanca.
(22) Carte de visite, Etoile Cadres, Casablanca.
(23) Intersection between Boulevard Brahim Roudani and Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni, December 2018, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(24) Twin Center, January 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(25) Al Hoceima, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(26) Bouskoura, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(27) Rabat, March 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(28) Aïn Diab, June 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(29) La Corniche, 2019, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(30) L'océan, Rabat, June 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(31) Casablanca, July 2020, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(32) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(33) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(34) Carte de visite, Photo Cine Vendome, Casblanca.
(35) Direction de L'instruction publique au Maroc (ed.) : Cent cinquante photographies prises au Maroc à la fin du XIXe siècle (exhibition catalog: Bibliothèque Générale et Archives du Protectorat (Rabat, January 1954), Hôtel Rembrandt (Tangier, February 1954), Biblitohèque du Batha (Fes, March 1954), Collection: Bibliothèque Generale du Protectorat (Rabat), repository: Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM, Rabat), Imprimerie Françaises et Marocaines: Rabat 1954[?].
(36) L’Illustration (ed.), 'Le Sultan du Maroc Photographe', Nr. 3265 (September 23, 1905), p. 198.
(37) Mchta w shita, May 2019, Marrakech, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(38) 9bl lftour, June 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(39) Ramadan, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(40) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(41) 9bl lftour, June 2019, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(42) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(43) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(44) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(45) Ksar dyal b7ar, August 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(46) Ecole primaire Ibn Al-Khatib, May 2019, Aïn Sebaa, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(47) Stamps with a portrait of Mohammed VI, private archive.
(48) Kissariat Lahrizi, Casablanca, 2024.
(49) Aïd al-fitr, 2019, Mdina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(50) Casablanca, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(51) Al Massira (La Marche Verte), Youssef Britel, Morocco 2016. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSenVqK0D4I&t=4875s, screenshot [TC: 01:23:58].
(52) Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-ʿArabī (sales & distribution), 'Allāh. al-Waṭan. al-Malik.' (1960s?), poster for Hassan II's 'Day of the Throne', color offset print on cardboard (59.4 × 42 cm), private archive.
(53) Gezzar, August 2019, Medina 9dima, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(54) Marché Central, 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(55) Sachet dyal Moul Beid, private archive.
(56) Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(57) Bouskoura, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(58) Rabat, June 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(59) Casablanca, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(60) La Viennoise, May 2019, Avenue Houmane El Fetouaki, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(61) Flandrin, 'Le Sultan et sa suite [devant Bab Marrakech, Casablanca]', Postcard with handwritten notes, Edition Tchakérian, find on Ebay.
(62) Ma7laba, April 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(63) Khdar, June 2019, Medina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(64) Street vendor offering framed pictures of King Mohammed VI, 2020, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(65) Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677), Mvley Arsheid Zeriff Prince of Taffeleta. Emperour of Marocco and Fezz (1670), Engraving (h. 16 cm, w. 12 cm), John Ogilby (ed.), The New York Public Library, New York. Licence CC0.
(66) Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān: Aḏ-ḏurar al-fāḫira bi-maʾāṯir al-mulūk al-ʿalawiyyīn bi-Fās az-zāhira, Rabat 1937, first picture (no. 3) after p. 32.
(67) Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān: Al-ʿizz wa-ṣ-ṣawla fī maʿālim niẓām ad-dawla, vol. 1, Rabat 1961, p. 57.
(68) Portrait of King Mohammed VI at Aïn Diab, June 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(69) Portrait of King Mohammed VI in a private courtyard in Tangier, Summer 2022, Tangier, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(70) Meknes, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(71) Société du Petit Parisien Dupuy & Cie (ed.), verso of a postcard with several stamps, handwritten notes ('abd+El-aziz. ex-Sultan du Maroc') and the remains of a label with picture description, 1913[?], find on Ebay.
(72) A. Arévalo (ed.), 'S.M. Muley Abd-El Aziz, Sultan de Marruecos', postcard, No. 17, ca. 1910[?], Librería Española y Extranjera, Tangier.
(73) URL: https://portrait-smlr.barid.ma, screenshot.
(74) Marche verte au Maroc (1975), Les archives de la RTS, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMz-gCa3kw, screenshot [TC 00:05:52].
(75) Royal portraits in a tent on the occasion of the Tbourida spectacle for the royal wedding of King Mohammed VI, MatchTV report (2002). URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPu-li8H80Q, screenshot [TC: 00:36:26].
(76) Marche verte au Maroc (1975), Les archives de la RTS, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMz-gCa3kw, screenshot [TC 00:02:06].
(77) Siyad 3la sakhra, March 2019, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(78) Benjdia, July 2021, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(79) Casablanca, August 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(80) Casablanca, August 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(81) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(82) Mers Sultan, Casablanca, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(83) Mers Sultan, Casablanca, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
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(1) Ksar dyal b7ar, August 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(2) Ma3kouda, 2019, Medina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(3) Skatepark Nevada, Casablanca, July 2020, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(4) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(5) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(6) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(7) April 2019, Rue Farhat Hachad, Mers Sultan, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(8) Place Boujloud, April 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(9) 9bl lftour, May 2019, Al Atlas, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(10) Hanout, June 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(11) Fes, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(12) Ecole primaire Ibn Al-Khatib, May 2019, Aïn Sebaa, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(13) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(14) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(15) Hay Mohammadi (Su9 lklb), May 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(16) Niddam et Assuline (ed.), 'Fez. - La Carrosse de Gala de S.M. Moulay-Hafid', Postcard, 1909, find on Ebay.
(17) Le Sultan Moulay-Youssef en grande céremonie', in the series: Le Maroc illustré, find on Ebay.
(18) Eugène Fumey, Choix de correspondances marocaines, p. 19 (letter), pp. 119–120 (Translation and commentary by Eugène Fumey).
(19) Rabat, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(20) Flandrin, framed photo of Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, 1927, find on Ebay.
(21) Carte de visite, Cadres Nancy, Casablanca.
(22) Carte de visite, Etoile Cadres, Casablanca.
(23) Intersection between Boulevard Brahim Roudani and Boulevard Mohamed Zerktouni, December 2018, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(24) Twin Center, January 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(25) Al Hoceima, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(26) Bouskoura, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(27) Rabat, March 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(28) Aïn Diab, June 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(29) La Corniche, 2019, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(30) L'océan, Rabat, June 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(31) Casablanca, July 2020, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(32) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(33) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(34) Carte de visite, Photo Cine Vendome, Casblanca.
(35) Direction de L'instruction publique au Maroc (ed.) : Cent cinquante photographies prises au Maroc à la fin du XIXe siècle (exhibition catalog: Bibliothèque Générale et Archives du Protectorat (Rabat, January 1954), Hôtel Rembrandt (Tangier, February 1954), Biblitohèque du Batha (Fes, March 1954), Collection: Bibliothèque Generale du Protectorat (Rabat), repository: Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (BNRM, Rabat), Imprimerie Françaises et Marocaines: Rabat 1954[?].
(36) L’Illustration (ed.), 'Le Sultan du Maroc Photographe', Nr. 3265 (September 23, 1905), p. 198.
(37) Mchta w shita, May 2019, Marrakech, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(38) 9bl lftour, June 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(39) Ramadan, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(40) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(41) 9bl lftour, June 2019, Aïn Diab, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(42) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(43) Tiznit, 2024, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(44) Photos by Khadija, Hiba, Maria, Najwa, Yassine, Aimad, Simo & Mounir, as part of the photography workshop with disposable cameras (led by Elodie Sacher) at the Lalla Meryem summer camp, Casablanca, project: 'Dérives de bord de mer' (A. Giacomini, A. Hassak), funded by the African Culture Fund, L'Atelier de l'Observatoire, July-August 2019.
(45) Ksar dyal b7ar, August 2019, Plage Pepsi, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(46) Ecole primaire Ibn Al-Khatib, May 2019, Aïn Sebaa, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(47) Stamps with a portrait of Mohammed VI, private archive.
(48) Kissariat Lahrizi, Casablanca, 2024.
(49) Aïd al-fitr, 2019, Mdina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(50) Casablanca, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(51) Al Massira (La Marche Verte), Youssef Britel, Morocco 2016. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSenVqK0D4I&t=4875s, screenshot [TC: 01:23:58].
(52) Muḥammad ibn Sālim al-ʿArabī (sales & distribution), 'Allāh. al-Waṭan. al-Malik.' (1960s?), poster for Hassan II's 'Day of the Throne', color offset print on cardboard (59.4 × 42 cm), private archive.
(53) Gezzar, August 2019, Medina 9dima, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(54) Marché Central, 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher
(55) Sachet dyal Moul Beid, private archive.
(56) Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(57) Bouskoura, 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(58) Rabat, June 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(59) Casablanca, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(60) La Viennoise, May 2019, Avenue Houmane El Fetouaki, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(61) Flandrin, 'Le Sultan et sa suite [devant Bab Marrakech, Casablanca]', Postcard with handwritten notes, Edition Tchakérian, find on Ebay.
(62) Ma7laba, April 2019, Fes, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(63) Khdar, June 2019, Medina 9dima, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(64) Street vendor offering framed pictures of King Mohammed VI, 2020, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(65) Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677), Mvley Arsheid Zeriff Prince of Taffeleta. Emperour of Marocco and Fezz (1670), Engraving (h. 16 cm, w. 12 cm), John Ogilby (ed.), The New York Public Library, New York. Licence CC0.
(66) Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān: Aḏ-ḏurar al-fāḫira bi-maʾāṯir al-mulūk al-ʿalawiyyīn bi-Fās az-zāhira, Rabat 1937, first picture (no. 3) after p. 32.
(67) Ibn Zaydān, ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān: Al-ʿizz wa-ṣ-ṣawla fī maʿālim niẓām ad-dawla, vol. 1, Rabat 1961, p. 57.
(68) Portrait of King Mohammed VI at Aïn Diab, June 2019, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(69) Portrait of King Mohammed VI in a private courtyard in Tangier, Summer 2022, Tangier, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(70) Meknes, Morocco, 1965, 8.8 × 13.8 cm, photographic print, photo album of J. L., private archive.
(71) Société du Petit Parisien Dupuy & Cie (ed.), verso of a postcard with several stamps, handwritten notes ('abd+El-aziz. ex-Sultan du Maroc') and the remains of a label with picture description, 1913[?], find on Ebay.
(72) A. Arévalo (ed.), 'S.M. Muley Abd-El Aziz, Sultan de Marruecos', postcard, No. 17, ca. 1910[?], Librería Española y Extranjera, Tangier.
(73) URL: https://portrait-smlr.barid.ma, screenshot.
(74) Marche verte au Maroc (1975), Les archives de la RTS, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMz-gCa3kw, screenshot [TC 00:05:52].
(75) Royal portraits in a tent on the occasion of the Tbourida spectacle for the royal wedding of King Mohammed VI, MatchTV report (2002). URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPu-li8H80Q, screenshot [TC: 00:36:26].
(76) Marche verte au Maroc (1975), Les archives de la RTS, URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbMz-gCa3kw, screenshot [TC 00:02:06].
(77) Siyad 3la sakhra, March 2019, Rabat, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(78) Benjdia, July 2021, Casablanca, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(79) Casablanca, August 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(80) Casablanca, August 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(81) Wra9 moul zari3a, private archive.
(82) Mers Sultan, Casablanca, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.
(83) Mers Sultan, Casablanca, May 2019, Photo: Elodie Sacher.