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
April Seminar 2012 TALIM's theme this year – Civic Participation – drew in a range of civic associations, student groups, and academics, both from Morocco and Tunisia. In the wake of the Arab Spring, the idea was to stress the local, homegrown roots of public participation. Not in politics, but in the betterment of life … Read more Civic Participation: Citizenship 101 in Tangier
It's one of those happy coincidences of timing: in the same week, we have had a convergence of human and cultural geographers from two universities in the Netherlands here at TALIM. What is the difference between the disciplines? From the University of Utrecht's Human Geography and Planning website, the answer in a series of questions: … Read more Taking the Cultural and Human Pulse: Geographers at TALIM
Tangier American Legation circa 1910 Over 100 years ago, in 1910, an organization called the American Embassy Association published an illustrated book entitled American Embassies, Legations, and Consulates Mean Better Foreign Business. You can leaf through the book here, courtesy Cornell University Library. The above photo – which we have in our collection of … Read more Better Legations Mean Better Image Abroad
