Mohamed Kabbaj: "All traditions give importance to the symbolism of the tree. According to Ibn Arabi, the tree is the symbol of Man - above all in its universality (Kulliya) and identity (Mitliya). The tree of which Adam and Eve ate the fruit, is mentioned in the Koran as a 'Tree of Immortality' (Shajarat Al-Khuld). The tree is located, according to Genesis, in the middle of Paradise...

When I first came to Morocco and traveled from Casablanca to Fez on the train, what I saw from the window were hundreds of black plastic bags littering the landscape. They were stuck to the scrub brush, blowing around the fields and even flying high in the air. It looked like somebody had dropped a bomb of bags on the countryside.