I love Morocco. It is a country I’ve visited often since the early 1980s, and just last summer I went to the wedding of a good friend in Marrakesh. Most…
Letters
My Mother Among Muslims
The day that my mom called me to tell me that she had booked a flight to Morocco, my heart just about stopped. “You did what?” I just couldn’t believe…
Pascual De Cabo & My Grandfather
In a way, entering the Medina Art Gallery in Tangier felt almost like stepping back to the United States because the air in the gallery was just as stale and…
The Gran Café de Paris
Mirrored walls surround the patrons scattered about mostly on the edges of leather booths. Each guest grips their own cup of freshly-squeezed orange juice, coffee, or mint tea with freshly…
Freedom in the Sahara
I felt the sand between my toes and turned to take in the endless hills that met the edge of the setting sky. I couldn’t hear the loud cheers behind…
A Feeling of Toska in Chefchaouen
Landscapes have a funny way of evoking emotions in the people who traverse them. According to The Book of Human Emotions, the Russian word toska is one such phenomenon. Toska is…
The Strays of Tangier
It all started on our third day in Tangier when we went on a scavenger hunt into the Medina. To escape the stress of the hunt, I spotted a pet…
A Pharmacy in Marrakech
“I’m different,” Ayub insisted. “I’m not about money; I’m about experience.”
The Campus Coordinator
And there I was, an American girl taking my first steps out of the Tangier Ibn Battouta International Airport and into Africa. Around me, I saw crowds of people I…
Flares and Fights
Our bus zigzagged in and out of traffic, as we sped toward the game like we were some sort of VIP deserving of special treatment. There were two police motorcyclists…
