In this project, Yassine Rachidi, the publication's editorial coordinator, weaves myth through past, present and future, bringing it into dialogue with port cities and their urban imaginaries. Conjugating myth with the past and the future, the conversations and essays in this editorial explore the imagined and the imaginable when brought into the present of African port cities.

Yassine Rachidi is an artist and researcher living and working between Montreal, Basel and the Maghreb region. His practice is research-based, space-focused and multidisciplinary, including fiction writing, photography and sound work. He is particularly interested in exploring the complex intersections between spatial imaginaries and built frameworks.

Laila Hida is a Moroccan artist and cultural worker based in Marrakech. She is primarily interested in images and photography, exploring their use both as archival material and as fictional triggers. Her recent work, "Le Voyage du Phoenix", explores the use of photography, literature and cinema as tools to distill regimes of desire in the 20th century.

In 2013, she founded LE 18 Marrakech, a multidisciplinary cultural space and artistic residency located in the medina of Marrakech, which extends her long-term intention to question and explore the impact of the environment on artistic production, mediation and research approaches.