Cultural diplomat, communicator, manager, at ease in academic circles – yes, all these are required of the Legation director – and more: the ability to manage the permanent construction site that the maintenance and restoration of a historic building entail.
Gibraltar and Tangier once shared regular shipping and air connections, and were a much bigger feature in each others’ lives.
When your museum is funded on a shoestring, your approach to curating exhibits has to be, shall we say, eclectic?
The Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco is home to the Museum of the Spanish Foreign Legion, tracing the history of Spanish wars in Africa.
Secretary of State John Kerry recalls that Tangier is home to the oldest US diplomatic property, the American Legation.
At the Legation, the place where the Morocco – US dialogue started more than two centuries ago, scholars establish the Moroccan American Studies Association (MASA).
Thanks to multiple acts of kindness, TALIM now has a tool to allow research into more than two centuries of American diplomacy in Morocco.
Rare account by American volunteer Colonel Paul Rockwell who fought Moroccan rebels for the cause of France in the Rif War of the 1920s.
The TALIM – FTAM Arabic women’s literacy program spawned a new set of graduates, ready to take full advantage of the reading and writing skills that will help them and their families.
American world music ensemble Libana – seven women from Boston – bring their joyous sound to Tarab Tanger, Tangier’s annual festival of world traditional music.
