The Morocco of I. William Zartman
We like love stories, and this is one of a French woman about her American husband, who meet in Morocco and devote the rest of their lives to Moroccan-US understanding.
Tangier
Putting Tangier In the News
Journalists still cling to the Tangier Sin City image, though the International Zone ended more than a half century ago.
Revolution, King, and People: Morocco 1953
Sixty years ago today, August 20 1953, France deposed and exiled the popular sultan Mohamed V, setting into motion the nationalist struggle that brought independence to Morocco in 1955.
When Tangier & Gibraltar Were “Tan-Gib”
Gibraltar and Tangier once shared regular shipping and air connections, and were a much bigger feature in each others’ lives.
Libana Lights Up Tarab Tanger
American world music ensemble Libana – seven women from Boston – bring their joyous sound to Tarab Tanger, Tangier’s annual festival of world traditional music.
The Man in the Bicorne
Man in bicorne hat, in the days when Tangier’s “diplomatists” would go pig-sticking in the “Diplomatic Forest.”
Tarab Tanger 2013
World traditional music performed by the American all-woman group Libana will be a highlight of Tarab Tanger 2013, June 27 to 30.
ZohraLiza: A Painting Inspires a Novel
Tangier journalist Abdelouahid Stitou writes the first Facebook interactive novel in Arabic, inspired by James McBey’s portrait of Zohra, “the Moroccan Mona Lisa.”
IBM’s Cookie Class Road to Development
IBM’s Corporate Volunteers work with Tangier NGOs on some grass-roots development projects to build local capacity.
Re-Mapping Tangier: National Geographic Workshop
“Re-Mapping Tangier” gathered European, American, and Moroccan scholars at TALIM to discuss an inter-disciplinary approach to understanding the complex space that is Tangier: African, European, Atlantic, Mediterranean, International, Moroccan.
