Anfa 1943: President Roosevelt’s Geography Lesson
70 years after the historic Casablanca or Anfa Conference of January 1943, American and Moroccan observers discuss the significance for Morocco’s struggle for independence.
American Studies
Free at Last
We got an early start in marking Martin Luther King day this year. There was great interest in our 2011 screening of Freedom Riders, so we decided that an encore was due for those who missed Stanley Nelson's award-winning documentary. Our monthly "Movie Night" had an added come-on: distribution of the excellent State Department publication … Read more Free at Last
“Because this is his country” – FDR & Mohammed V
Americans, from diplomats in Tangier to President Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference, met with Moroccan nationalists in defiance of French colonialists.
American Studies in Arab Universities
Experts on American Studies in the Arab world gather in Marrakesh, Morocco to gauge the discipline in the wake of the Arab Spring.
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
Bowles & Kerouac and the Legation
Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.
On the West Side of Tangier…
Thanks to a young American Fulbright scholar, West Side Story meets Isli and Tislit – in Moroccan Arabic.
Tangier 1949: Gore Vidal Ambushes Truman Capote
Arch literary enemies Gore Vidal and Truman Capote meet on the docks of Tangier.
Washington to Sultan: “Great and Magnanimous Friend”
Thankfully, someone remembered to mark the 225th anniversary of one of America's oldest treaties, the 1787 Treaty of Marrakesh – "The Treaty of Friendship & Amity" – between Morocco and the United States. Appropriately, the event was celebrated by the Amity Series, an interfaith dialogue initiative between Muslims and Christians, and took place last week … Read more Washington to Sultan: “Great and Magnanimous Friend”
