General George S. Patton – larger than life, and forever etched in our memory by George C. Scott’s role in front of a monumental American flag – was the focus of the audience at Casablanca’s Villa des Arts, thanks to the people of Dar America.
The Moroccan storytelling tradition – Al-Halqa, title of Thomas Ladenburger’s documentary – is a dying art, and should not be labelled “begging,” just because they pass around the hat.
The Moroccan Jewish diaspora’s longing for their ancestral home is matched by Moroccans’ nostalgia for their former neighbors.
Cut up though it might have been, last weekend’s Colloque à Tanger, devoted to Beats Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, succeeded in evoking that era when Tangier was the Interzone of politics and poetry.
A rare book containing the letters written to the wife of kidnap victim Ion Perdicaris has been put up for sale.
Tanger Gool features women’s teams from Madrid and Tangier, the Moroccan city where Spanish football is king.
The human components of suicide bombings, told with great realism and poetry by Moroccan film maker Nabil Ayouch.
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
West Side Story, for the first time in darija or Moroccan Arabic, in Tangier.
Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.
