RABAT, Morocco — For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a handful ...

For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a handful of change ...

Authorities in Marrakech and Casablanca have decided to close traditional Moroccan public baths, or hammams, for three days a week in response to the effects of drought and water stress.

The monuments include the Kahal Synagogue, Asilah's historic Jewish cemetery, and a mikveh (ritual bath ... and hammam. The ...

A Moroccan traditional bath, known as hammam, is empty of customers, in Rabat, Morocco, Monday, March 4, 2024. Climate change and a yearslong drought have forced Morocco's famous public baths to ...

RABAT, Morocco (AP) -- For years, Fatima Mhattar has welcomed shopkeepers, students, bankers and retirees to Hammam El Majd, a public bath on the outskirts of Morocco's capital, Rabat. For a ...

The public baths — hammams in Arabic — for centuries have been fixtures of Moroccan life. Inside their domed chambers, men and women, regardless of social class, commune together and unwind.