“Dear Mrs. Perdicaris”
Going viral, 1904 style: hundreds of letters of sympathy in the kidnapping of Ion Perdicaris, an American held hostage by Raisuli, played by Sean Connery in “The Wind and the Lion.”
Legation Tales
Quasi-Monopoly On the Legation Brand
We’re happy to learn that there is another legation museum out there – the French Legation Museum in Austin, from the 1836-46 Republic of Texas.
Bruce Condé – Enigmatic Tangier American
American Bruce Chalmers, aka Bruce Bourbon de Conde, aka Alfonso Yorba, aka Hajji Abdurrahman… once described by an American newspaper as “a new Lawrence of Arabia,” lived a life of a monarchist philatelic Arabist, and died in Tangier.
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.
The Class of ’62 Learns Arabic
In 1962, American diplomats study Arabic at the American Legation in Tangier. Most eventually become US Ambassadors.
John Blake: Growing Up at the Legation
John Blake, who grew up at the American Legation, was witness to the march of history in mid-twentieth century Tangier.
Tangier’s Long Transition: Interzone to Moroccan City
From the blog "Space and Place," Dr. George F. Roberson The Frontline Diplomacy collection of oral histories, part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, offers priceless insights into the practice of US foreign policy over the latter half of the twentieth century. The collection was compiled by ADST, the Association for … Read more Tangier’s Long Transition: Interzone to Moroccan City
Consul, Wrapped In Flag: Odd Legation Tales
On this Fourth of July, when across the United States, and in those places overseas where Americans meet, the red, white and blue decorates many a barbecue and picnic, we display this gift of Moroccans to Americans, dating back to the late 1950s. American flags haven't flown over the Legation in, what, more than 50 … Read more Consul, Wrapped In Flag: Odd Legation Tales
Reliving Forties Tangier with Ruth Wolfe Weems
Dorothy Weems as her mother, Ruth Wolfe Weems “I was the youngest member of the Legation, the one most newly arrived from America…” There’s a touch of Isak Dinesen’s wistful remembrance of Africa in Ruth Wolfe Weems’ writing on her years in Tangier. A bit of the postwar sense of loss after the adventures, the … Read more Reliving Forties Tangier with Ruth Wolfe Weems
When the Legation Rocked: Celebrating Peace Corps
Peace Corps Country Director Richard Holbrooke (arrow), dining at the Tangier American Legation Peace Corps training center in 1971 We are very excited to celebrate 50 years of the Peace Corps Morocco program. Initial planning and training of the first group occurred in 1962, in advance of the arrival of the first Volunteers in … Read more When the Legation Rocked: Celebrating Peace Corps
