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Timitar Festival in Agadir
Timitar Festival has placed Amazigh, or Berber, culture at the center of an international musical exchange since the Timitar Association launched it in 2004 in Agadir. Held every July at Place Al Amal and Theatre de Verdure with every performance free, the festival's lineup spans chaabi, Amazigh folk, gnawa, Arab music, African rhythms, and Moroccan pop, drawing crowds that have topped 800,000 across expanded editions.
Amazigh, or Berber, culture predates the modern Moroccan state by millennia, yet for much of the twentieth century it rarely occupied center stage in the country's major cultural events.