Lord Bute’s Palace: Historic Minzah Hotel
The Minzah Hotel is the subject of a social history, with plenty of period gossip from Tangier’s heyday.
Site-Specific: Legation History Comes To LIfe
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
Radio Medi 1 Across the Maghreb
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
Our New Two-Century Timeline
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
Bowles & Kerouac and the Legation
Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.
The Last of the Forbes Toy Soldiers
James Bond aficionados, on his 50th anniversary, will find the toy soldiers from “The Living Daylights” at the Tangier American Legation museum.
RIP, Ambassador Christopher Stevens
US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens served in the Peace Corps in Morocco in the 1980s, when he worked on a project at the Tangier American Legation Museum.
The Wind, the Lion, and Rosita Forbes
Early 20th century explorer and writer Rosita Forbes may have been an inspiration for Hollywood’s taking liberties with the true story behind “The Wind and the Lion.”
John Blake: Growing Up at the Legation
John Blake, who grew up at the American Legation, was witness to the march of history in mid-twentieth century Tangier.
