Tangier Edition

MAKAN #1: Informal Utopias is the first issue of MAKAN, a cultural journal dedicated to questions of art, urbanism, and architecture. Conceived as an open space — makan ma, “a certain space” — the journal explores the urban, social, political, artistic, and imaginary dimensions that shape our territories and lived experiences.

Dedicated to the utopias of the informal, this first issue is the result of two years of research, exchanges, residencies, and workshops organized by Think Tanger. Bringing together artists, researchers, urbanists, activists, and collectives from Tangier to Cairo and Lomé, it proposes narratives grounded in the territorial realities of the region.

Contributors : Hicham Bouzid, Amina Mourid, William Kutz, Anna Benarrosh-Orsoni, MF Kalfat, Eugénie Denarnaud, Hicham Gardaf, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Yolande Benarrosh, Salima Ben Moussa, Omar Nagati, Soraya El Kahlaoui, Abderrahim Benattabou, Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, Aliocha Tazi, Kevin Witkow

MAKAN #2: Manufacturing Narratives examines how narratives shape our understanding of reality and truth, and the mechanisms through which societies define — or choose to accept — these notions in the contemporary world. Human life has always been embedded within networks of stories that allow individuals, communities, and nations to express who they are, where they come from, and what they aspire to become.

At the core of this production of narratives lie questions of authority, legitimacy, and collective belief: how do certain narratives establish themselves as truth, and what realities do they claim to represent? Through essays, research, and artistic contributions, this second issue of MAKAN explores the structures through which discourse is produced, as well as the power relations that shape the circulation and reception of narratives.

Contributors include : Ali As'adAbari Abbassi, A. George Bajalia, Ala Younis, Ali T As’ad, Karim Kattan, Karima Kadaoui, Kenza Sefrioui, Lahbib El Moumni, Laila Hida, Maureen Mougin, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Monica Basbous, Nadia Tazi, Sénamé Kouffi Agbodjinou, Sonia Terrab and Soufiane Hannouni, and Yto Barrada.

MAKAN #3: Synthetic Agencies is the third issue of MAKAN, Think Tanger’s journal of culture and space. Emerging in a moment shaped by technological acceleration and global uncertainty, this edition examines the invisible systems—digital, political, economic, and ideological—that structure contemporary life. Through essays, conversations, artistic contributions, and visual research, Synthetic Agencies explores how power operates in an increasingly mediated world, and asks what forms of agency, resistance, and collective imagination remain possible within it.

Bringing together writers, researchers, artists, and practitioners from different geographies and disciplines, the issue reflects on themes of control, surveillance, abstraction, infrastructure, and the architectures of the unseen.

Contributors include : Ali T. As’ad, Amine Houari, Driss Ksikes, Fehras Publishing Practices, Hamed Sinno, Helga Tawil-Souri, Hicham Bouzid, Lada Hršak, Mayada Madbouy, Myriam Ababsa, Nzinga Biegueng Mboup, Ola Hassanain, Omer Shah, OPPA, Salma Barmani, Samia Henni, Tarek El-Ariss, and Zaidoun Hajjar.