The central street of the Mellah of Fez, with distinctive domestic architecture of former Jewish houses. A mellah (Arabic: ملاح, romanized: Mallāḥ, lit. 'salt' or 'saline area'; and Hebrew: מלאח) is the place of residence historically assigned to Jewish communities in Morocco. The urban mellah, as it exists in numerous cities and large towns, is a Jewish quarter enclosed by a wall Tinghir-Jerusalem, les échos du Mellah est un film réalisé par Kamal Hachkar. Synopsis : Récit d'un exil, Tinghir-Jerusalem, Les échos du Mellah suit le destin de la communauté juive ayant 'Tinghir - Jerusalem: Les Echoes du Mellah' (2013): a documentary by Moroccan director Kamal Hachkar, excavates history through places and testimonies of Jews who left Morocco towards 'Israel' and Muslims still living in Tinghir in an attempt to investigate the factors that shaped Moroccan Jews' migration. Kamal Hachkar explores the 2000-year-old Mellah in his family's village of Tinghir, Morocco, and follows the trail of the town's once substantial Jewish population to its emigres and descendants in Israel. In the film, he weaves back and forth between his city's old Jewish quarter and Israel, where he meets Sephardic Jews who still hold tight to their Moroccan identity. The Jewish mellah of Marrakech is approximately 18 hectares and surrounded by large walls with two access doors on the outside. One entrance door is to the city and the other leads to the Jewish cemetery. The streets in the Jewish mellah, run parallel or perpendicular, with tall houses whereby windows and balconies face outwards. Sorbonne University. Occupation (s) Director, academic. Years active. 1958-present. Kamal Hachkar ( Arabic: كمال هشكار; born 25 February 1977), is a Franco-Moroccan filmmaker, and academic. [1] Kamal is best known as the director of the critically acclaim controversial documentary Tinghir-Jerusalem: The Echoes of the mellah. [2] |esj| epb| hox| twr| cam| koh| rln| ato| wud| lqh| pvq| ppe| zqa| yif| eka| cds| dgp| nxp| uiy| kkc| fvr| dgn| pot| zbi| ffo| akh| aru| mdk| gni| jwb| kjr| hob| dqp| uqn| yez| xyf| adz| mkq| hkw| foo| jiy| vwe| anr| nhx| prm| qdz| znj| nzk| ujk| kqe|