As the dust settles in the wake of the earthquake in Morocco, people are assessing how deep the damage goes. Some cultural sites and traditional Berber and Amazigh buildings have been destroyed, all of them with a story behind them. The World’s Carol Hills talks to Abdelatif Ait M’barek, a trekking guide in the town of Imlil in the Atlas mountains who knows the area well.
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