DERB OMAR

This guide to Derb Omar in Casablanca starts with a boy named Omar Tissir, selling eggs one by one between weekly markets in the Haha hills, small enough that bus drivers charged him for half a seat. It follows him into the earthquake that flattened Agadir in nineteen sixty, the sudden shift from laborer to contractor, and the Marocanisation-era deals that built him a stake in a major French construction firm and the country's first motorway. Traders from Fez were already selling silk and tea along these lanes long before he ever arrived, and their kissarias still anchor the district's narrow streets today.