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 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.
The infinite variety of cultural, educational, exhibitional, and sundry other activities at the Tangier American Legation.
Silvia Cristina Bechet applies horse handling lessons to managing potentially unruly classes. Student Whispering, in other words.
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.
Why just talk about Morocco’s Street Food, Abdelkrim Raddadi’s new book, when you can eat some caliente too, strait off the burner?
Do Something! for the Legation – advocate, lobby, write a letter – to the editor, or to your Senator.
A rare book containing the letters written to the wife of kidnap victim Ion Perdicaris has been put up for sale.
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.
Tanger Gool features women’s teams from Madrid and Tangier, the Moroccan city where Spanish football is king.
