Guiding the group are Alex von Tunzelmann (L) Alexandra Pringle (C) and Faiza Khan (R) [Photo credit: Ayman Bardi]

Over a final dinner at Jnane Tamsna, participants shared reflections on the journey [Photo credit: Ayman Bardi]

The morning November sun cast a warm glow over the embroidered yellow tablecloth, where notebooks lay open, their covers stamped with Silk Road Slippers, and pens hovered over fresh, lined pages [Ayman Bardi]

Kamila Shamsie gives a reading of her short story Churail in the lounge at Jnane Tamsna as a guest [Photo credit: Ayman Bardi]

A group of writers gather around a long table in the Mossafir area beside the pool at Marrakech's Jnane Tamsna estate [Photo credit: Ayman Bardi]