MOROCCO | Wednesday, 12 December 2012 | Views [511] | View Smaller Image
During the day of the Eid, neighborhood boys congregate in the streets of the medina (old city) to roast ram heads on bonfires built out of bed frames and wooden crates. This street, usually crowded with goods and shoppers, becomes an apocalyptic landscape. Smoke rises from bonfires on the unnaturally empty and boarded up street, while gangs of teenage boys compare the size of their ram’s horns and poke at the heads roasting in the fire. This boy inspects his charred ram head, perhaps imagining the taste of the brains that will show up in the couscous the next day.
