How appropriate to launch The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb, a scholarly work by Khalid Amine and Marvin Carlson, at the Tangier American Legation. Why? Well, for one thing, the Legation property once housed a theatre. "The Theatre Parcel" is noted on historic documents tracing the Legation's growth over … Read more Focus on Theatre in the Maghreb
The Legation is becoming the venue of choice for book presentations, especially books in English or with a connection to the United States. We have done several over the past couple of years, and have two scheduled this week. In partnership with Tangier's premier bookstore Librairie des Colonnes, we feature a book by an American … Read more An American Designs the Moroccan Dream: Bill Willis
This November will mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Torch, when Allied forces converged on North Africa and eventually drove Axis forces from the continent. US Army Photograph by Sgt. Robert A. Edwards, Signal Corps, week of January 17, 1943. From the papers of OSS officer Gordon Browne, Tangier American Legation The barely … Read more On Memorial Day, Reminders of 1942 Allied Landings
Peace Corps Country Director Richard Holbrooke (arrow), dining at the Tangier American Legation Peace Corps training center in 1971 We are very excited to celebrate 50 years of the Peace Corps Morocco program. Initial planning and training of the first group occurred in 1962, in advance of the arrival of the first Volunteers in … Read more When the Legation Rocked: Celebrating Peace Corps
Dorothy Weems (left) as her mother, Ruth Wolfe Weems (right) It started with a simple sentence, a comment on a TALIMblog post about the Legation during the Second World War: My mother worked at the US Legation in the early 1940's. That one-liner from Dorothy Weems blossomed into several months' correspondence, where it emerged … Read more Miss Weems & Miss Wolfe: Tangier Stories from the ’40s
"La Chasse aux Sangliers dans la Plaine de Sahara," Horace Vernet, hand-colored lithograph by Gautier, France circa 1860, Donald Angus Collection, Tangier American Legation Yesterday's jaunt in the Perdicaris Forest west of Tangier brought us more than one reminder of Tangier's heyday as an international city. There was the ruin of Perdicaris' home itself, … Read more The Powers Go Pigsticking: Tangier Tent Club
John Carter Vincent, Tangier 1967, by Marguerite McBey You never know what you're going to find in those cryptically marked boxes. I recently came across a treasure trove of sketch books left to the Legation by Marguerite McBey, Tangier American artist, 1905 – 1999. Though her husband James was a better known artist (his portrait … Read more John Carter Vincent by Marguerite McBey
CSTM Director Omar Hassein briefing National War College group NESA = Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, part of National Defense University (NDU) NWC = National War College, also part of NDU Last week saw two separate groups representing different aspects of professional military education (PME) converge on TALIM. The historic American … Read more SOG, NESA, NWC: PME Comes to TALIM
Legation Pavilion, photo by Elizabeth Gill Lui The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, TALIM, is housed in the only US National Historic Landmark located outside the United States. The Legation includes a research library, museum, Arabic literacy program, and hosts a number of other educational and cultural activities. The Legation museum is … Read more About – Contact Info
Aman te Water & George Bajalia at Moulay Hafidh Palace For most of its 16 years, SIT – le Salon International de Tanger des Livres et des Arts – had been a 100% francophone affair. Then last year we were invited to set up a stand, which was a nice entrée into this annual … Read more Putting the “I” in Tangier’s International Book Fair
