Arabic: Speaking 5, Reading 0

Imagine this: you reach the age of, say, 35, and you’re driving down the expressway with the kids in the back seat. You get hopelessly lost a half hour from home.  You decide, then and there, to sign up at the program offered by the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, TALIM. The course?  … Read more Arabic: Speaking 5, Reading 0


Gibraltar Shrouded in Fungus, or the Cat Who Ate the Legation

The Legation's door, that is. This is a story of a fine building, the "Old American Legation" in Tangier, home to TALIM, the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.  Our new home. A fine building that has seen better days – sometime between when it was given to the United States of America by … Read more Gibraltar Shrouded in Fungus, or the Cat Who Ate the Legation


Tangier Bids Farewell to the Kuniholm Era

When they arrived in Tangier to run the American Legation, Thor and Elizabeth Kuniholm knew they were embarking on an adventure.  It was 1991, when the world was about to witness the fall of the Soviet Union, and Francis Fukuyama was drafting the End of History.  In Tangier, history wasn't ending, it was just taking … Read more Tangier Bids Farewell to the Kuniholm Era