How appropriate to launch The Theatres of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia: Performance Traditions of the Maghreb, a scholarly work by Khalid Amine and Marvin Carlson, at the Tangier American Legation. Why? Well, for one thing, the Legation property once housed a theatre. "The Theatre Parcel" is noted on historic documents tracing the Legation's growth over … Read more Focus on Theatre in the Maghreb
"La Chasse aux Sangliers dans la Plaine de Sahara," Horace Vernet, hand-colored lithograph by Gautier, France circa 1860, Donald Angus Collection, Tangier American Legation Yesterday's jaunt in the Perdicaris Forest west of Tangier brought us more than one reminder of Tangier's heyday as an international city. There was the ruin of Perdicaris' home itself, … Read more The Powers Go Pigsticking: Tangier Tent Club
CSTM Director Omar Hassein briefing National War College group NESA = Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, part of National Defense University (NDU) NWC = National War College, also part of NDU Last week saw two separate groups representing different aspects of professional military education (PME) converge on TALIM. The historic American … Read more SOG, NESA, NWC: PME Comes to TALIM
April Seminar 2012 TALIM's theme this year – Civic Participation – drew in a range of civic associations, student groups, and academics, both from Morocco and Tunisia. In the wake of the Arab Spring, the idea was to stress the local, homegrown roots of public participation. Not in politics, but in the betterment of life … Read more Civic Participation: Citizenship 101 in Tangier
It's one of those happy coincidences of timing: in the same week, we have had a convergence of human and cultural geographers from two universities in the Netherlands here at TALIM. What is the difference between the disciplines? From the University of Utrecht's Human Geography and Planning website, the answer in a series of questions: … Read more Taking the Cultural and Human Pulse: Geographers at TALIM
Jesse McMath, US Consul Tangier, 1862-1869 Those shoe boxes full of old photos keep on producing historic gems. Thanks to Parisian pediatrician, author, and Tangerine transplant Philip Abensur – who had already provided us a rare image of Civil War era US Consul in Tangier James DeLong from the archives of his great great-uncle, … Read more Consul McMath’s Sentence to Tangier
To be precise, it's actually Moroccans studying the Moroccan-American relationship, through history, in the present, and into the future. That's what the Morocan American Studies Lab is about, part of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities at Hassan II University, Casablanca (Ben M'Sik). Students & Faculty of the Moroccan American Studies Lab Ben M'Sik … Read more Arabs Studying America
Hotel Cecil luggage label circa 1920, from the cover of "No Better Address!" "No Better Address!" A Brief Social History of the Hotel Cecil, Tangier. 2012, Dr. Terence MacCarthy. Note: This guest post by Terence MacCarthy is the foreword (abridged) of his delightful new book, published in Tangier. TALIM and its "invaluable research library" … Read more “No Better Address!” Social Historian Terence MacCarthy’s Hotel Cecil
As a preventive measure, I had to slip this slide into Professor Nile Stanton's excellent presentation on persuasive speaking. Try as we might, a few individuals in his Legation audience of master's business students from Tangier's HEM (Haute Ecole de Management) were not persuaded to turn off their infernal machines. But hey, if some … Read more Professor Nile’s Public Speaking Formula
As a very nice spinoff from last week's Radio Tangier interview, tonight Thursday 9 February will feature a special two-hour Paul Bowles program, midnight – 2:00 AM (Morocco time or GMT; this would be 7:00 to 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time). Listeners across the world can tune into Moroccan National Radio Alidaa-Watania and/or Radio … Read more Midnight Spotlight: Paul Bowles Returns to Moroccan Airwaves
