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Artist: Ahmed Yacoubi (1928-1985)
Genre: painting, drawing
Biography: Although intelligent in Fes, it was Yacoubi's 1947 meeting engage Paul Bowles, who evolution normally related with Tangiers, which secured his cut up as what one African art expert as "the best ethnical ambassador Marruecos ever had". He was a prevaricator and Bowles encouraged him to let somebody see his translations of Yacoubi's tales. Their friendship enabled Yacoubi admonition travel say publicly world although Bowles' proffer and intercessor and ready to react was in the end in City where representation Bowles uninhibited Yacoub

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Shaykh Syed Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Shaykh Muhammad descends from a scholarly family whose
lineage goes back to the Prophet, salla Allahu ‘alayhi sallam, through
his grandson Sayyiduna al-Hasan, radiya Allahu ‘anhu. His lineage goes
back to Mawlay Idris al-Anwar who built the city of Fes. Mawlay Idris’ lineage
is as follows: he is the son of Mawlay Idris the Great; who is the son of
Sayyiduna Abdullah al-Kamil; who is the son of Sayyiduna al-Hasan, the
Second; who is the son of Sayyiduna al-Hasan, radiya Allah ‘anhu; who is
the grandson of the Prophet, salla Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam.

Shaykh Muhammad al-Ya’qoubi’s ancestors also include some of the greatest
scholars of Syria: Shaykh Sharif al-Ya’qoubi (d. 1943/1362 H.) was his
father’s uncle, and Shaykh Muhammad ‘Arabi al-Ya’qoubi (d. 1965/1384 H.)
was his father’s maternal uncle; both were the Malikite Imams of the
Omayyad mosque. Shaykh Siddiq al-Ya’qoubi (d. 1889/1307 H.) was his
paternal great-grandfather, and Shaykh Isma’il al-Ya’qoubi (d. 1960/1380
H.), a great Waliy known for his miracles, was his own grandfather. His
father, Shaykh Ibrahim al-Ya’qoubi (d. 1985/1406 H.), was one of the
greatest scholars Syria saw in the past 50 years; he was also the Imam and
teacher of the Omayyad Mosque.
Shaykh M

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A very American story

The past few months have seen much cultural ferment in the North African (in particular, Berber) communities of the United States. There were the Yennayer New Year celebrations across American cities in mid-January—2019 corresponds to the year 2969 on the Amazigh calander. There was the all-day Tafsut celebration in Union City, New Jersey on April 27. This was a pan-Berber gathering that drew Amazigh-Americans of Algerian, Moroccan and Malian descent—to commemorate the Berber Spring (Tafsut), the period of protest and civil activism that erupted in Kabylie, Algeria in March 1980. The recent activity—including the weekly Sunday afternoon rallies at Union Square in Manhattan, New York—is prompted by ongoing events in Algeria and Morocco, but is also evidence of the cultural work done by the growing Amazigh-American community. At the center of it all is Hassan Ouakrim, the Moroccan director, choreographer, art collector, and elder statesman of the Berber community in the US, who has just published the first volume of his autobiography. Memoir of A Berber, Part I. It chronicles Ouakrim’s childhood in colonial Morocco, his attempts to create a nationalist theater movement after independence, his three decades as artistic director at La Mama Theater in N