The Ed Wood School of Museology
When your museum is funded on a shoestring, your approach to curating exhibits has to be, shall we say, eclectic?
Diplomatic History
Moroccan Roots of the Spanish Foreign Legion
The Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco is home to the Museum of the Spanish Foreign Legion, tracing the history of Spanish wars in Africa.
TALIM’s Magical Microfilm Machine
Thanks to multiple acts of kindness, TALIM now has a tool to allow research into more than two centuries of American diplomacy in Morocco.
When Americans Bombed Chefchaouen: L’Escadrille Chérifienne
Rare account by American volunteer Colonel Paul Rockwell who fought Moroccan rebels for the cause of France in the Rif War of the 1920s.
The Man in the Bicorne
Man in bicorne hat, in the days when Tangier’s “diplomatists” would go pig-sticking in the “Diplomatic Forest.”
What Would the Sultan Think? Save the Legation
The Tangier American Legation – the only remaining witness to earliest days of American diplomacy in the Arab world – urgently needs restoration.
Historic Houses of American Diplomacy
In an American historic house in Washington DC, home to DACOR, an association of US Foreign Service Officers, TALIM Director presents the Tangier American Legation, home of centuries of American diplomats in Morocco.
Morocco – US Strategic Dialogue at TALIM April Seminar
TALIM’s annual April Seminar 2013 had a decidedly strategic angle: the Strategic Dialogue between Morocco and the United States, one of the oldest diplomatic relationships for the US, sometimes strained – as recently over the UN role in the Moroccan Sahara – by regional political events.
TALIMonth: CNN, Cartoons, Carnivals – a Cornucopia
The infinite variety of cultural, educational, exhibitional, and sundry other activities at the Tangier American Legation.
Kidnap Scrapbook: Letters on the Perdicaris Affair
A rare book containing the letters written to the wife of kidnap victim Ion Perdicaris has been put up for sale.
