Advocate for the Legation Day
Do Something! for the Legation – advocate, lobby, write a letter – to the editor, or to your Senator.
Michael Toler
Kidnap Scrapbook: Letters on the Perdicaris Affair
A rare book containing the letters written to the wife of kidnap victim Ion Perdicaris has been put up for sale.
Zohra, As She Was: Photos From the Fifties
James McBey’s “Zohra” has been called the Moroccan Mona Lisa, but in the 1950s, she was a young teen posing in Tangier, and friends with the children of Marguerite McBey’s American family.
Madrid 10, Tangier 0: Victory for All
Tanger Gool features women’s teams from Madrid and Tangier, the Moroccan city where Spanish football is king.
Horsemen of an Apocalypse: les Chevaux de Dieu
The human components of suicide bombings, told with great realism and poetry by Moroccan film maker Nabil Ayouch.
The Navy Is Back: USNS Grapple in Tangier
The crew of the USNS Grapple renews the tradition of US Navy ship visits to the port of Tangier.
Museums of American Diplomacy
The US Diplomacy Center in Washington, and the Tangier American Legation museum in Morocco, tell the story of American diplomacy.
Logistics’ Human Side: “Deep Hanging Out”
PhD candidate Janell Rothenberg has worked for years on the socio-cultural dimensions of the transportation and logistics industry in northern Morocco.
Anfa 1943: President Roosevelt’s Geography Lesson
70 years after the historic Casablanca or Anfa Conference of January 1943, American and Moroccan observers discuss the significance for Morocco’s struggle for independence.
Free at Last
We got an early start in marking Martin Luther King day this year. There was great interest in our 2011 screening of Freedom Riders, so we decided that an encore was due for those who missed Stanley Nelson's award-winning documentary. Our monthly "Movie Night" had an added come-on: distribution of the excellent State Department publication … Read more Free at Last
