Today, Remembrance Day in Britain, Armistice Day in France, and Veterans Day in the US, has a special resonance here in the Maghreb. 70 years ago today, American and British forces were in the midst of a battle to free Vichy-held French North Africa. Operation Torch. 70 years ago today, General Patton's representative in Fedala, … Read more 1942 – 2012: Operation Torch, 70 Years On
West Side Story, for the first time in darija or Moroccan Arabic, in Tangier.
The following guest post is by Eric Branholm, of the West Side Story team in Tangier. Eric is a recent alumnus of Loyola University Chicago where he earned bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Communication Studies. Since graduating from Loyola, he has been working with different youth development programs in and around Chicago. – – … Read more Universal, Timeless, Tragic: Romeo & Co. in Tangier
The Minzah Hotel is the subject of a social history, with plenty of period gossip from Tangier’s heyday.
For text of entire letter, click here Dr. Khalid Amine, member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), President of the Tangier-based International Center for Performance Studies (ICPS) and professor at Tetouan's Abdelmalik Essaadi University, presented a lively, illustrated talk at the Legation on site-specific performance. More on that … Read more Site-Specific: Legation History Comes To LIfe
Though its studios are in a pleasant old villa in central Tangier, Medi 1's antenna farm in Nador, near the Moroccan-Algerian border, points east (photo, right). Medi 1 is shorthand for Radio Maghreb International, and its broadcasts in Arabic and French cover a wide audience all across North Africa. With US presidential elections only weeks … Read more Radio Medi 1 Across the Maghreb
What's a Legation? Why is it in Tangier? Really, it's the only US National Historic Landmark overseas? These are but a few of the recurring questions we get at TALIM, from Americans, Moroccans, and visitors from around the world. So we have finally gotten around to installing "backlit transparencies" in a previously unused staircase that … Read more Our New Two-Century Timeline
Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.
James Bond aficionados, on his 50th anniversary, will find the toy soldiers from “The Living Daylights” at the Tangier American Legation museum.
