Books – Tangier American Legation Museum

Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg: A Tangier Connection?

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 by John Davison

RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, publisher and owner of the famous City Lights Bookstore, who died yesterday at age 101 in his hometown, San Francisco. Described in his New York Times obituary as the “spiritual godfather of the Beat movement,” Ferlinghetti had some indirect links to the city of Tangier, where some Beat Generation authors found … Read more Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg: A Tangier Connection?

AIMS, Books, Cultural Diplomacy, Education, Events, Literacy and Skills Training, Morocco, Museum, Music, Research Center, TALIM, Tangier

January 23-25: Three Busy (and Rainy) Days at the Legation!

November 13, 2020January 26, 2020 Leave a comment by John Davison

Sundays are usually well-earned rest days at the Legation, especially after perhaps 3 of our busiest days in recent memory. On Thursday and Friday, January 23-24, we hosted our first — but we hope not our last — symposium on “Movement and Migration between Morocco and West Africa,” which addressed a broad range of themes … Read more January 23-25: Three Busy (and Rainy) Days at the Legation!

Books, Events, Maghrib, Morocco, Podcasts

Eric Calderwood: Colonial Andalus

July 11, 2018May 26, 2018 Leave a comment by Abdelbaar Mounadi Idrissi

In this episode, Eric Calderwood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) speaks about his recently published book Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press, 2018). Calderwood offers an overview of his book and also reflects on how the time he has spent in Morocco (especially in Tetouan) has shaped his research topic and his understanding of Moroccan history and literature.

Books, Cultural Diplomacy, Events, Tangier

TALIM and the 19th Annual Salon International de Tanger des Livres et des Arts

April 14, 2015 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

TALIM is proud to once again support the Salon International de Tanger des Livres et des Arts. “La Femme” is the theme of this year’s Salon, and TALIM will sponsor the participation of American author/historian Alison Baker, and Tangier-based American publisher, Elena Prentice. Please join us from May 6-10 to support this important celebration in … Read more TALIM and the 19th Annual Salon International de Tanger des Livres et des Arts

Books, Education, Historic Preservation, TALIM

Treasures to be discovered at the Legation

March 15, 2015 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

By Grecia Álvarez, MLIS, Guest blogger

Grecia, Dunya and Majda inside the rare books cage

When we started sifting through our collection to cull our rare books from the regular shelves and put them into their new home in “the cage” we never imagined we would find books dating from 1572, or even a parchment signed by King Philip II of Spain (Philip I of Portugal). In fact, we started out by pulling books dating from 1920 and earlier and soon found that our cage was overflowing, so that we had to cut back to books printed before 1911. Previously, these books were intermingled with our regular collection, which focuses mainly on Morocco, but it was decided that these books required special protection, and thus the cage, a small room with an iron gate, was born. Our rare books cover a breadth of topics, from early accounts of European exploration of the region, to government treatises, geographical studies, books signed by illustrious figures (including a book belonging to former Prime Minister of Spain Antonio Cánovas del Castillo). We even have copies of an 1889 edition of Washington Irving’s The Life of Mahomet and a first edition of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad.

Books, Events, TALIM

Morocco Launch of “A Gardener’s Garden” at the Museum

November 30, 2014November 30, 2014 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

TALIM Board Member Elena Prentice looks on as fellow Board Member Madison Cox signs his book — Another Board Member, Elena Prentice, looks on as Madison Cox signs books

TALIM in partnership with Librarie des Colonnes welcomed landscape architect and Tangier resident Madison Cox to the Legation on November 12 for the Morocco launch of A Gardener’s Garden, published by Phaidon.

Madison, who currently serves on the TALIM Board, spoke of how he and his collaborators had made what must have been the difficult decisions on which of the world’s gardens, great and small, to include in this beautiful book.

Books, Film, Music, TALIM

Enchantment On Sale through the New Year

November 12, 2014 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

If you are looking to get an early start on some Christmas shopping, you can do it and support TALIM by purchasing copies of Enchantment. Pictures from the Tangier American Legation Museum, by Diana Wylie, on sale for $14.99 (regularly $35) in our web store, powered by Amazon. All the proceeds from the sale of … Read more Enchantment On Sale through the New Year

AIMS, Books, Interzone, Morocco, Research Center

Tangier: Guides and Gateways

December 9, 2014June 25, 2014 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

Cover by Robert McDonald, Tangier: The Golden Gateway (Tangier: Mediterranean American Press, 1952). Collection TALIM Research Library.

The following is a guest post by Emma Chubb, who made a presentation on her subject to a group of American, European, and Moroccan researchers and interested members of the public at TALIM on June 17. Emma Chubb is a doctoral candidate in art history at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois USA) and is a 2013-14 American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) fellow in Morocco.

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Guides and Gateways

I spent much of last fall reading through TALIM’s collection of guidebooks and tourism magazines published between the 1940s and 1970s. Perhaps it was because I too was a newcomer to Tangier, but these guides fascinated me. Some folded out like maps, mixing quirky tips for the European or American traveler to Tangier with black-and-white photographs and brightly colored illustrations.

The Skeletons of Portuguese Tangier

December 10, 2014June 19, 2014 Leave a comment by Michael Toler

“Portuguese Tangier” uses the latest GIS modeling technology and 15th century archives to recreate a vibrant image of the city during its two Portuguese centuries.

Books, Cultural Diplomacy, Music, Research Center

Ten Years of “Performing Tangier”

December 10, 2014June 6, 2014 1 Comment by Michael Toler

Several other intervening events prevented me from properly congratulating Dr. Khalid Amine and his circle in the International Center for Performance Studies on the tenth edition of “Performing Tangier.”