Where Are the Maghrebi Artists?
Women artists from the Maghreb, part of the diaspora crisscrossing the Mediterranean, mix media and identity to create a “neo-Orientalist” school which challenges stereotypes and nationalisms of all sorts.
Research Center
Club Elixir, Then & Now
TALIM’s collection of digitized glass negatives provides rare glimpses of life in Tangier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and here “Club Elixir” has metamorphosed into a lively – non-alcoholic – square.
TALIMonth: CNN, Cartoons, Carnivals – a Cornucopia
The infinite variety of cultural, educational, exhibitional, and sundry other activities at the Tangier American Legation.
Merja Zerga: Pilgrims of the Blue Lagoon
Christiane Delongueville, Belgian nature photographer and mollusc expert, turns her lens on the fantastic collection of birds gathered at Morocco’s Merja Zerga lagoon at Moulay Bousselham.
Advocate for the Legation Day
Do Something! for the Legation – advocate, lobby, write a letter – to the editor, or to your Senator.
Logistics’ Human Side: “Deep Hanging Out”
PhD candidate Janell Rothenberg has worked for years on the socio-cultural dimensions of the transportation and logistics industry in northern Morocco.
Performing the Political in Tangier…
The annual “Performing Tangier” performance studies conference in Tangier goes political in 2013.
Etched in Memory: Historic Glass Negatives
An invaluable collection of late 19th and early 20th century glass negatives was partially scanned at the Tangier American Legation.
American Studies in Arab Universities
Experts on American Studies in the Arab world gather in Marrakesh, Morocco to gauge the discipline in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Saharan Crossroads: Views From the Desert-Edge
Herein we broadcast the Call for Papers (CFP) from the joint AIMS (American Institute for Maghrib Studies, of which TALIM is the research center in Morocco) WARA (West African Research Association) conference for June 2013. Please note that the deadline for submission of applications and abstracts is December 30, 2012. – – – – – … Read more Saharan Crossroads: Views From the Desert-Edge
