After three days of conferencing, the Legation's fountains and birds are again audible in the relative calm of the medina. Not that we're complaining: a better group of participants couldn't be found. We have just hosted an illustrious group of experts on Berber Societies, the theme of this year's AIMS – American Institute for Maghrib … Read more Berber Societies: AIMS Conference 2012 at TALIM
For the past 62 years, there has been an American campus in this city – the American School of Tangier (AST), the first such school in Morocco, offering classes K-12. Now, with the announcement by UNE – Maine's University of New England – of plans to establish a presence at AST, there will be a … Read more An American Campus in Tangier
This week marked the 70th anniversary of the creation of the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, barely six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. OSS Society President Charles Pinck has penned this article in the Tampa Tribune, "General Donovan's Glorious Amateurs," whose title provides a glimpse of the kind of recruits Donovan gathered … Read more OSS Diplomatic Courier Gordon Browne’s Fateful Pouch Run
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
