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Women who are unable to find a husband resort to spiritual consultation to solve their problems or simply act as an emotional outlet. Also, the sinister ceremonies that hang around or inside the mausoleums are prostitution and sorcery.In a book that hinges on Smith and Menesse’s emotional reaction to the events around them, he does an excellent job of portraying that through the art. Usually, these people are illiterate, ignorant, and unaware of the dangers of the spread of these beliefs within the community. Illuminating these many different meanings of the square’s name alone saves us the trouble of explaining its effects on the literature that surrounds it. This literary form draws on the cafe culture embedded in the public squares densely peppered throughout Moroccan cities; in these spaces intertwine all varieties of social interaction and engagement. Ailsa Sachdev spent several months in Morocco on an SIT Study Abroad program and produced this story in association with Round Earth Media, a non-profit organization that mentors the next generation of international journalists.

Others attend mausoleums hoping the saint to discharge their current issues such as sterility, epilepsy, demon possession, insanity, joblessness, spinsterhood, and lack of success and so many other issues. What I once thought was purely a self fulfilling prophecy has time and time again been proven as western arrogance. Unmodified photograph of the Sidi Chamharouch shrine taken by James Handlon in 2014, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC-SA 2.

Until these days, since pre-Islamic times, pilgrims travel to Sidi Chamharouch to cure themselves or their loved ones from illnesses or exorcism, bringing animals to sacrifice.