Michael Toler Well, it wasn't really an exhibit, but rather a film of an artist and her exhibit. The artist is Carla Querejeta Roca, a Spanish Tangeroise (or perhaps Tangerina) whose family has strong roots in this city on the Strait of Gibraltar. The filmmaker is Jean-Claude Sussfeld, who has begun to explore Tangier subjects. The exhibit … Read more Instant Art Exhibit: Carla Querejeta Roca
Tangier is home to Morocco's leading institute of higher education in tourism, ISITT, of the Ministry of Tourism. Now in its 40th year, ISITT has an alumni list of thousands, many of whom have made careers in tourism, Morocco's most important source of foreign exchange. Invited to make a presentation on the Legation at ISITT's … Read more Culture, Tourism, and Cultural Tourism
This week marked the 70th anniversary of the creation of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, barely six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. OSS Society President Charles Pinck has penned this article in the Tampa Tribune, "General Donovan's Glorious Amateurs," whose title provides a glimpse of the kind of recruits Donovan gathered … Read more OSS Diplomatic Courier Gordon Browne’s Fateful Pouch Run
Dorothy Weems as her mother, Ruth Wolfe Weems “I was the youngest member of the Legation, the one most newly arrived from America…” There’s a touch of Isak Dinesen’s wistful remembrance of Africa in Ruth Wolfe Weems’ writing on her years in Tangier. A bit of the postwar sense of loss after the adventures, the … Read more Reliving Forties Tangier with Ruth Wolfe Weems
How appropriate to launch The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb, a scholarly work by Khalid Amine and Marvin Carlson, at the Tangier American Legation. Why? Well, for one thing, the Legation property once housed a theatre. "The Theatre Parcel" is noted on historic documents tracing the Legation's growth over … Read more Focus on Theatre in the Maghreb
The Legation is becoming the venue of choice for book presentations, especially books in English or with a connection to the United States. We have done several over the past couple of years, and have two scheduled this week. In partnership with Tangier's premier bookstore Librairie des Colonnes, we feature a book by an American … Read more An American Designs the Moroccan Dream: Bill Willis
This November will mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Torch, when Allied forces converged on North Africa and eventually drove Axis forces from the continent. US Army Photograph by Sgt. Robert A. Edwards, Signal Corps, week of January 17, 1943. From the papers of OSS officer Gordon Browne, Tangier American Legation The barely … Read more On Memorial Day, Reminders of 1942 Allied Landings
Peace Corps Country Director Richard Holbrooke (arrow), dining at the Tangier American Legation Peace Corps training center in 1971 We are very excited to celebrate 50 years of the Peace Corps Morocco program. Initial planning and training of the first group occurred in 1962, in advance of the arrival of the first Volunteers in … Read more When the Legation Rocked: Celebrating Peace Corps
Dorothy Weems (left) as her mother, Ruth Wolfe Weems (right) It started with a simple sentence, a comment on a TALIMblog post about the Legation during the Second World War: My mother worked at the US Legation in the early 1940's. That one-liner from Dorothy Weems blossomed into several months' correspondence, where it emerged … Read more Miss Weems & Miss Wolfe: Tangier Stories from the ’40s
"La Chasse aux Sangliers dans la Plaine de Sahara," Horace Vernet, hand-colored lithograph by Gautier, France circa 1860, Donald Angus Collection, Tangier American Legation Yesterday's jaunt in the Perdicaris Forest west of Tangier brought us more than one reminder of Tangier's heyday as an international city. There was the ruin of Perdicaris' home itself, … Read more The Powers Go Pigsticking: Tangier Tent Club
