The Best Ever Book of Moroccan Jokes: Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who

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Moroccan stories have simple names reflecting the oral tradition. The King and The Thief ; The Lion, the Hedgehog and the Donkey ; The Teacher and The Woman are three very common stories. They’re similar in style to parables, illustrating moral or spiritual lessons. Throw in a good dose of drama to keep it entertaining and a couple of Moroccan jokes to keep it light (they do sometimes get lost in translation), and storytellers can keep crowds entertained for hours. It’s Not (Just) About the Story Coquelin Cadet said in his book Laughter, “We have written much about laughter, but we have not in any aspect defined what makes [a person] laugh.” It is, however, generally accepted that there are universal themes that inspire all comedians and fabricators of jokes: Just like in the rest of the world, the trinity of sex, religion, and politics is considered to be the most important inspiration for jokes. It represents the desire to break taboos and reject all boundaries. Jamal Khalil writes on this that “the Moroccan joke has always circled around taboos but has not truly overcome them.”

At the Djemaa el-Fna, you can still catch many of the sage Masters working their magic to crowds of transfixed listeners. Storytellers work nightly at the square. All stories are told in Arabic. It is customary to tip the teller a few dirhams. In this series, we explore the importance of traditional storytelling and the storytellers that tell them, across various cultures. Moroccan culture

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What I love about the Moroccan stories is that they are full of wisdom and they all have morals.” Ben Allal shared, “And of course because I enjoy listening to a story. I think all people love stories.” One can, however, generally notice that this kind of joke is beginning to be spread less. Instead, Moroccan jokes cover other topics: mental hospitals, the mother-in-law (and/or the old woman), alcoholics, marital relations or marriage to foreigners, encounters with the police or the authorities in general . . . . The largest encyclopedia of Moroccan jokes on the Internet in one place, the application contains another new jokes and is renewed daily, also cool jokes are divided and according to classification, the application contains many sections of Moroccan junk hospital, Moroccan idiots, Moroccan stingy, Moroccan hashish, Moroccan animals , Moroccan sports jokes, Moroccan girls' jokes, Moroccan Al-Shafara, Moroccan jokes for married couples, Moroccan school, Juha jokes, Moroccan jokes about drunken people, Moroccan jokes and goblins, Moroccan fast with zerba, Moroccan political jokes about jokes about love, Moroccan general jokes. ... and also jokes in Arabic. The power of the word in Morocco beloged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women."

You can copy and share jokes with your friends on Facebook, WhatsApp and others directly from the application. Amazighs respect the Arab language because as people we separate valuable civilisations’ symbols from the acts of occupation and invasion. But we as Amazighs consider Arabic our second language and Tmazight our first,” Ahmed Aasid, a leading figure of the Moroccan Amazigh movement, said during a recent interview. Morocco: A Place Where Getting Lost is Half the Fun, and Finding Your Way is the Other Half!” Some Final Talk It feels like we were never Arab enough to be accepted by the Arab world. The moment we made it in a sports competition they wanted us to be only Arab and nothing else"At best, women play their socially accepted role in sexual jokes. There is the role of the “bashful, yet willing” woman who rarely initiates. In contrast, men appear as strong studs with insatiable appetites who know how to achieve their aims. They are the doers, the decision-makers. Since Moroccan Arabic is essentially a spoken language, the emphasis is on speaking. However, we believe that learning the Arabic alphabet is very helpful. It may seem to slow you down in the beginning (even though at the first level we also use phonetics), but it will help you later. Phonetics is only a limited aid that cannot do the job as well as the Arabic alphabet. Moroccan music and dance transport you to a world of rhythm and celebration – it’s an auditory feast. Here, everything is subject to joking. Comedian Mohamed El Jem confirms this when he says that “everything encountered in daily life can be fodder for jokes.” In this regard, Hassan Nraies asks: “Is there a limit for laughter or humor? Yes—the criterion is not to violate the respect for human dignity.” Through it all, Moroccans have maintained their ability to laugh at everything. Do we not have a well-known proverb that says, “Too much worrying makes you laugh?”