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Soulaimane Bakbach

Healing with music: A Moroccan NGO revives the spiritual practice

Morocco has a rich musical culture that intersects arts with spirituality, mental healing and is still widely celebrated today [Courtesy: Fennich Foundation]  

Rabat, Morocco – At the Ibn Sina public hospital, Abdelmajeed says tells Al Jazeera how his teenage son now no longer dreads the wait for the four-hour kidney dialysis sessions he needs to undergo three times each week.

The 14-year-old has been taking guitar and piano lessons for the past two months at the hospital, after having been”stripped of childhood” by kidney failure that drove him out of school and into 14 surgeries since infancy.

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