Souk Najd
Sprawling flea market of scavenged stalls and a cardboard-minaret mosque, rebuilt after repeated fires.
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This guide to Souk Najd in Casablanca opens with a question: what do you build first once the fire is out? In late 1982 a blaze tore through the old Joutia de Kria market, leaving over seven hundred merchants without a stall, and in 1986 officials simply pointed them to an empty patch of ground with no permit, no deed and no power line. You'll hear how traders rebuilt stall by stall out of tin, zinc and scavenged wood, and built something unauthorized alongside their shops. Listen for the market's own soundscape as you wander between the stalls.
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