World Heritage Day: Morocco’s Rural Treasures
American architect Cloe Erickson works to save Morocco’s vanishing rural heritage, often hidden in the high valleys of the Atlas Mountains.
Michael Toler
Where Are the Maghrebi Artists?
Women artists from the Maghreb, part of the diaspora crisscrossing the Mediterranean, mix media and identity to create a “neo-Orientalist” school which challenges stereotypes and nationalisms of all sorts.
Club Elixir, Then & Now
TALIM’s collection of digitized glass negatives provides rare glimpses of life in Tangier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and here “Club Elixir” has metamorphosed into a lively – non-alcoholic – square.
Colloque à Tanger: Francophones Cut Up the Town
Cut up though it might have been, last weekend’s Colloque à Tanger, devoted to Beats Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, succeeded in evoking that era when Tangier was the Interzone of politics and poetry.
Vanessa Paloma & the Spirit of Moroccan Jews
Vanessa Paloma sings, writes, and lives for the music of her Sephardic forebears who left Morocco for the New World. Now she’s back in Morocco, one of the preeminent scholars – and performers – of Morocco’s Jewish musical heritage.
TALIMonth: CNN, Cartoons, Carnivals – a Cornucopia
The infinite variety of cultural, educational, exhibitional, and sundry other activities at the Tangier American Legation.
Whispering With Horses, Students, Bosses
Silvia Cristina Bechet applies horse handling lessons to managing potentially unruly classes. Student Whispering, in other words.
Merja Zerga: Pilgrims of the Blue Lagoon
Christiane Delongueville, Belgian nature photographer and mollusc expert, turns her lens on the fantastic collection of birds gathered at Morocco’s Merja Zerga lagoon at Moulay Bousselham.
Legation Courtyard Cookoff: Moroccan Street Food
Why just talk about Morocco’s Street Food, Abdelkrim Raddadi’s new book, when you can eat some caliente too, strait off the burner?
Advocate for the Legation Day
Do Something! for the Legation – advocate, lobby, write a letter – to the editor, or to your Senator.
