TALIM hosted Dr. Anouar Majid of the University of New England, back in his native Tangier to move forward his plan to establish a UNE center in the city. For the very respectable Friday evening crowd of academics, students, and bookworms, Dr. Majid provided a summary of his latest book: Islam and America: Building … Read more Islam, America, and Anouar Majid
Hotel Cecil luggage label circa 1920, from the cover of "No Better Address!" "No Better Address!" A Brief Social History of the Hotel Cecil, Tangier. 2012, Dr. Terence MacCarthy. Note: This guest post by Terence MacCarthy is the foreword (abridged) of his delightful new book, published in Tangier. TALIM and its "invaluable research library" … Read more “No Better Address!” Social Historian Terence MacCarthy’s Hotel Cecil
The old adage about prevention being the best cure can clearly be applied beyond the healthy diet. In the case of Transparency Maroc, it's the very title of their book. The Morocco branch of the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International – Morocco appears to be the only Maghreb country with such an independent watchdog … Read more A Proverb A Day To Keep Corruption Away
François Beaune wants your (true) story. Your Mediterranean story, in whatever language (French, Arabic, Hebrew, English, Spanish… the Med is a melting pot of languages too) you choose. And though the invitation is open – "I believe in copyleft, and want stories to be shared" – there are some conditions for submissions. Inspired … Read more Copyleft Your True Story: Histoires Vraies de Méditerranée
Poster adapted by Serena Epstein, American School of Tangier As we walked, I showed Tennessee the Arabic translation of his play, and explained that the title in Arabic meant: A Cat On the Fire. Mohamed Choukri, Tennessee Williams in Tangier (1979, Cadmus Editions, translated by Paul Bowles) Choukri's little book recounts one of the playwright's … Read more Tennessee Williams’ A Cat On The Fire
For the last couple of months, settle into a Royal Air Maroc airplane seat, reach for the inflight magazine, and you'll see the cover story – the Museums of Tangier. Featuring, along with our friends the Kasbah Museum, the Tangier American Legation (TALIM) museum. We are thrilled that RAM, with its six million passengers per … Read more Read All About It: Legation & the Press
Lucy Melbourne, American writer on Morocco, Fulbright scholar, and comparitive literature professor has done us a singular honor, with the publication of her poem "TALIM" in MLM – Le Magazine Littéraire du Maroc. It's in the Autumn 2011 issue. As Lucy says, it's further proof that English has become a language of literature in Morocco. … Read more A Poem Entitled TALIM
1961… Fifty years ago, a modernist architectural edifice in "New Tangier" replaces the Gift of the Sultan. [T]he Tangier Legation was an exception. Before 1821, and for a long while after, the United States owned no property abroad… [In the 1950s and 60s] Projects such as Tangier… designed by young "stars" such as Hugh Stubbins, … Read more The Modernist Tangier American Consulate General
There have been Shahs in Morocco. Of Iran, and of Afghanistan. We speak of the latter. Tahir Shah (official site) In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams (Bantam, 2008) Tangier holds a special place in my heart. It was there that my grandfather lived, then died, knocked down outside his villa on the steep … Read more A Shah’s Triumphant Return To Tangier
Note: In our continuing series of posts touching on the long history of Moroccan-American relations, we reproduce below the text of a passport issued to the “Prince Among Slaves,” Abd al Rahman Ibrahima Sori. Passports in those days were not what we think of today; they were basically safe conduct letters. The President at whose … Read more His Emancipation From Slavery Would Be Agreeable To Morocco’s Emperor
