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  • Neighbors chat, clean and repaint their street in anticipation of an aunt's return from a trip to Mecca, Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • A young woman in a pink djellaba poses for a portrait in a narrow blue alley, Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • A bread seller feeds cats from her tiny window storefront in Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • A veiled figure walks through colorful alleyways at nighttime in the Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • Alley at twilight in the Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • Veiled women walk down a dark alley in the Chefchaouen medina, Morocco.
  • View of the Chefchaouen medina at sunset, with the Rif Mountains in the background, Morocco.
  • A shaft of light illuminates piles of dried dates on display in a back alley of Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
  • A veiled woman walks past the ornate doorway to the Medersa Bou Inania in Fes El-Bali, Morocco.
  • Fortified Berber town in the Mougoun Massif region of the Middle Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
  • Berber men cinch down on an imbalanced mule load, Middle Atlas, Morocco.
  • A Berber woman carries home dried wheat and corn stalks from the fields to feed the animals, Middle Atlas, Morocco.
  • The wife and children of my Berber host Mohamed El Mady pose for a portrait in their home in Ait Alla, in the Middle Atlas, Morocco.
  • The smoke of grilling meat surrounds my host Mohamed El Mady at his home in the Middle Atlas, Morocco.
  • Adobe walls, palm trees and power lines are lit by street lights at twilight along a road leading to Ait Bounou, an ancient village threatened by extreme drought in the Moroccan Sahara.
  • Elhussein Sbiti leads an American client on a three-day camel trek to the remote dunes of Erg Zehar, near Mhamid in the Moroccan Sahara. Sbiti, like many berber nomads in the region, has found opportunity in the new tourism trade burgeoning since the settling of tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria.
  • Nut and dried fruit vendors keep tidy in their stall at a market in Marrakech, Morocco.
  • A veiled Muslim woman walks by a garbage collector holding up a broom along a well maintained painted sidewalk in Fes El-Jdid, Morocco.
  • A metalsmith hammers out bent rebar and scraps for reuse at his street-side shop, Meknes, Morocco.
  • Smoke rises from the dazzling array of eateries bustling every night until late on Djemaa el-Fna square, the beating heart of Marrakech street life, Morocco.
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