Resolution 2013: Lobby for the Legation
Money is good, but an investment of time to rally resources for the Tangier American Legation should be our 2013 resolution.
Historic Preservation
Echos of the Irish Battery: David Asbury’s Guitar
Dr. David Asbury performs the works of Turlough O’Carolan in the shadow of Tangier’s Irish Battery.
Lords & Loafers at the Hotel Continental
Tangier’s best-preserved “grand hotel” has been home to more than a century’s worth of adventurers.
Tangier: International, Interzonal… Intercultural
Tangier’s UNESCO Club put on a day-long symposium on Tangier as a city of intercultural dialogue.
Moulay Hafid Palace: 100 Years Young
The restored Moulay Hafid Palace 1912 – 2012 and the centenary of the establishment of protectorate Morocco has had its occasional magazine article, but so far I haven't seen any mention of the 100th birthday of what has been called Tangier's most beautiful building. Moulay Hafid Palace, also known locally as the Palais des … Read more Moulay Hafid Palace: 100 Years Young
Summer of Scaffolding
When you have a two-century old building, you better devote resources to keeping it from falling down.
The Rooms Still Have a View
Art critic and social historian Terence MacCarthy has done it again: another historic hotel, another book. The title choice A Room With a View may disturb E.M. Forster and Merchant-Ivory fans, but the subtitle shows that this is not plagiarism: A History of the Grand Hotel Villa de France. And it's MacCarthy's Tangier, not Forster's … Read more The Rooms Still Have a View
Legation Pavilion: Endangered National Treasure
The Tangier American Legation Pavilion; photo by Elizabeth Gill Lui Though it is emblematic of the entire institution, the Pavilion was the last of the historic Legation buildings erected in this collection of structures built around and over pedestrians-only America Street in Tangier's medina. Here's what Honor Bigelow wrote of the building 80 years … Read more Legation Pavilion: Endangered National Treasure
Culture, Tourism, and Cultural Tourism
Tangier is home to Morocco's leading institute of higher education in tourism, ISITT, of the Ministry of Tourism. Now in its 40th year, ISITT has an alumni list of thousands, many of whom have made careers in tourism, Morocco's most important source of foreign exchange. Invited to make a presentation on the Legation at ISITT's … Read more Culture, Tourism, and Cultural Tourism
Better Legations Mean Better Image Abroad
Tangier American Legation circa 1910 Over 100 years ago, in 1910, an organization called the American Embassy Association published an illustrated book entitled American Embassies, Legations, and Consulates Mean Better Foreign Business. You can leaf through the book here, courtesy Cornell University Library. The above photo – which we have in our collection of … Read more Better Legations Mean Better Image Abroad
