IBM’s Cookie Class Road to Development
IBM’s Corporate Volunteers work with Tangier NGOs on some grass-roots development projects to build local capacity.
IBM’s Corporate Volunteers work with Tangier NGOs on some grass-roots development projects to build local capacity.
Performing Tangier 2013 was launched at the Legation, with oud concert and book presentation by Dr. Carol Malt.
The Tangier American Legation – the only remaining witness to earliest days of American diplomacy in the Arab world – urgently needs restoration.
“Re-Mapping Tangier” gathered European, American, and Moroccan scholars at TALIM to discuss an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the complex space that is Tangier: African, European, Atlantic, Mediterranean, International, Moroccan.
American Bruce Chalmers, aka Bruce Bourbon de Conde, aka Alfonso Yorba, aka Hajji Abdurrahman… once described by an American newspaper as “a new Lawrence of Arabia,” lived a life of a monarchist philatelic Arabist, and died in Tangier.
In an American historic house in Washington DC, home to DACOR, an association of US Foreign Service Officers, TALIM Director presents the Tangier American Legation, home of centuries of American diplomats in Morocco.
TALIM’s annual April Seminar 2013 had a decidedly strategic angle: the Strategic Dialogue between Morocco and the United States, one of the oldest diplomatic relationships for the US, sometimes strained – as recently over the UN role in the Moroccan Sahara – by regional political events.
American architect Cloe Erickson works to save Morocco’s vanishing rural heritage, often hidden in the high valleys of the Atlas Mountains.
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.
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.