Visual dictionary
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All residents
This is a reminder that we will be posting our banners and banner ads for three days at the end of the next week, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, to make our concerns heard. This is a long, tedious, and unfair battle, as the authority of the city of Mohammedia is making aloof from the situation; therefore, we will need the assistance of each and every one of you to get what is ours by the law. To put you in the picture, the real estate developer, who built the residence Nour here in Beni Yakhlef, Luizia, has no right to keep managing and changing the residence in any way. This is because he sold all of his apartments; he does not own the majority; thus, he must go, and he must go now.
Recently, he has brought his workers to alter many things in the residence. His workers have changed the main entrance front door of many buildings from opening outward to inward. In addition, they have appalingly decorated the facade of some buildings with something that is completely unrelated and different from the common decor of the rest of the buildings in the same residence and from the original look and design of the entire residence that was submitted to the city prior to construction. This real estate developer did not stop there but keeps saying that he is the syndicate of our residence still. The law is clear, and it is clear to everyone except he does not want to understand it nor his workers.
We need to make sure that banners are posted where people are most gathered for them to see them. We hope this will give him a wiser thinking of the situation and a better understanding of the law. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this crucial work.
Banners
The residence
A worker
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What does Aziz do in his spare time?
Aziz’s job is never a fancy job but a reliable source of income for him. His job as a Moroccan teaman is to pour the Moroccan mint tea to many patrons of the restaurant he works in. The tea, or “atay b’naanaa,” must be prepared and served in a special way, and he is the master of atay b’naanaa preparation. Boiling water, dried green tea leaves, fresh mint leaves, and sugar. It seems like basic ingredients, but the secret is in the brewing time, and after that is in the mixing process before the final pouring of the tea. In his spare time, Aziz reads books, especially English books, and writes short stories mainly about the people of Morocco. Sometimes, in his notebook, he writes essays and summarizes radio conversations. Aziz’s little secret is that he hates anything that is French, including the language. It reminds him of the killing of his parents in Morocco and how he was orphaned at 9. One day, Aziz will publish a book about his parents’ deaths, but for now he is enjoying the English reading and writing in his free time.
A teaman
Tea leaves
Essays
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The Sunday Souk
During the weekdays, the place is an empty space filled with nothing but earth, litter, and street dogs. Yet, on the weekend, it is a magical marketplace called the Sunday Souk in the city of Mohammedia. Sellers come from faraway places to peddle their things, trying to sell them and make some profits, but the competition is always very tough. In order to compete in the Sunday Souk, peddlers need to advertise well their products. In fact, with the use of portable megaphone speakers, vendors can advertise their products all day long by playing an exciting recorded voice ad that loops over and over and over again informing customers, for instance, about product prices or about detailed recipes of how to get rid of flies or about the steps of how to use a kitchen machine. Though a portable megaphone speaker is used basically for advertising goods, it is also used to find a kid who lost his mother in the crowds of the souk.
A place
A marketplace
A peddler