What the hammam asks of your Darija
An hour in the hammam: black soap, a coarse mitt and a very thorough stranger. Bring the words for shoulders and elbows and the hour belongs to you.
In Morocco, looking after your health often means an hour in a steamy tiled room. An attendant covers you in slick black soap, takes a coarse kessa mitt and gets to work. You sit on the warm floor and watch small grey rolls of skin gather around you, proof that the whole week is now behind you. Name your shoulders and elbows in Darija before the mitt gets there, and the hour belongs to you.
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