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Background: In 788, about a century after the Arab conquest of North Africa, successive Moorish dynasties began to rule in Morocco. In the 16th century, the Sa'adi monarchy, particularly under Ahmad AL-MANSUR (1578-1603), repelled foreign invaders and inaugurated a golden age. In 1860, Spain occupied northern Morocco and ushered in a half century of trade rivalry among European powers that saw Morocco's sovereignty steadily eroded; in 1912, the French imposed a protectorate over the country. A protracted independence struggle with France ended successfully in 1956. The internationalized city of Tangier and most Spanish possessions were turned over to the new country that same year. Morocco virtually annexed Western Sahara during the late 1970s, but final resolution on the status of the territory remains unresolved. Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997. Parliamentary elections were held for the second time in September 2002 and municipal elections were held in September 2003.




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Time flies when you're having fun and blog posts are slow to catch up. I will post this in three parts for those of you afraid of long paragraphs of text. The trip got off to a great start. Saturday, my dad and I drove to New York for a 8:00 flight out of JFK. It was a nice weather for the drive and I made the bad idea of sleeping for most of it. I got to JFK with plenty of time. As I went through the check point and waved goodbye to my dad I had a strange feeling. [View Full Entry]

Trey - Trey Goggins | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 27th 2009 | 101 Views | [diary=402658]

Arrival at Amideast
Where is my fish?
Ma Chambre

"We think you are insulting us," said Akmed, the blind Moroccan, "when you say that time is no problem in Morocco". As the Technical Coordinator for the Peace Corps Orientation and Mobility program (Stage, '93) I was hosting a seminar for the administrators of the blind schools from all over Morocco. I had been given two days notice to coordinate it. My first response: a PANEL! I figured if I got a panel of people together to discuss blindness issues, spoke real slowly, and used complex American jargon that would take the translator thrice as long to find an Arabic equivalent, [View Full Entry]

MJJM - Michael Meteyer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 2nd 2009 | 110 Views | [diary=395690]

By the Bou Regreg
Scheherezade
Marabout

DAY 2 We take the train to Rabat this morning about 1 hour. The good thing is we have paid a little extra about 2-3 dollars more to travel 1st class, that only means we have a seat and don't have to stand all the way there. We took our food with us - things that we bought in the market yesterday - strawberries, raspberries and dates. We played GIN and Francine won most of the games. We ate lunch at a restaurant that had a lot of local character with very good food, we had turkey brochettes and veggie tajine. [View Full Entry]

2 BLONDES ON HOLIDAY - ANGIE FRANCINE | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 19th 2009 | 244 Views | [diary=391886]

RABAT MEDINA
RABAT FORTRESS
FRANGIE

Why Time Is No Problem in Morocco (Part 1) In the 1990s I was hired by the Peace Corps to be the Technical Coordinator in the Orientation and Mobility/Visually Impaired program. The school was located on a campus in Rabat, the capitol, in the northwest tip of Africa. In Arabia, language not only is used to describe dreams and reality: language IS dreams and reality. Experience is a poor relative. The river that divides Europeanized Rabat from its mystical, gleaming whitewashed citadel of magic, Sale (pronounced "Sah'LAY") is named the Bou Regreg: "The River of the Father of Reflections". [View Full Entry]

MJJM - Michael Meteyer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 29th 2009 | 44 Views | [diary=385674]


We slept at Stansted Airport. I say we, but in truth Seth slept and I woke up every fifteen minutes freezing cold and wondering why my wrist was in so much pain. Realising that this was in fact due to vigorous cleaning of the oven before moving out of our flat the previous afternoon, I knew it was my most pathetic war wound to date. Such banalities, I thought, will at least be left behind for the next six months, while in Africa... yet here I am hand washing my clothes and hanging them out on the balcony to dry. I [View Full Entry]

LuBarnham - Lu Barnham | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 25th 2009 | 316 Views | [diary=384650]

Tafraoute
Tafraoute
Cascades DOuzoud

dear all, you will have to excuse the wait, i arrived back from marrakesh on wednesday evening, and had a rubbish day yesterday with only 2 students in the morning class and one in the evening one, but today i made sure i had a really well planned lesson etc., and the two hours flew by! now have the weekend off again to plan more lessons, but i don't like staying in rabat, as you may have gathered, so i think this may be done en route to the place with lots of flamingoes that i will be seeing with dassy... [View Full Entry]

Finbar - Anderson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 15th 2009 | 101 Views | [diary=373986]


I wrote the previous entry at 10:00 this morning on the bus ride back to the ship. It is now 6:15, and my day has taken quite an ironic turn… Our tour guide, Majid, agreed to drop me off at the American Consulate in Casablanca on our way back to the ship around 11:00. So I hopped off the bus with my bag, clutching my passport and security clearance forms tightly as I walked toward the security guards by the barricades. There I encountered hurdle number one: they weren't accepting Americans at that time; hours were 8-9:30 and 1:30-3. That was [View Full Entry]

BethL410 - Tbilisi, Georgia for the summer | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 6th 2009 | 303 Views | [diary=370991]


I have been in Morocco for three weeks now. It has definitely been a very different experience already from my semester in France. The food is amazing here, not to say that in France it isn't, but the tajines and couscous are so good. Moroccans are really nice...with a few exceptions of one cab driver who told me my French was really bad and a few other incidents. But they are crazy drivers. They shouldn't be allowed to have horns...they use them all the time and when we are walking down the street we almost get hit on a daily basis. [View Full Entry]

emma serianni - Emma Serianni | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 1st 2009 | 128 Views | [diary=369356]


By Finbar
February 1st 2009
Morocco Africa » Morocco » Rabat-Salé-Zemmour-Zaer » Rabat
dear all, excuse the negligence over the last week or so, and any poss mistakes, i am in a bit of a hurry to get back to dinner... ive had an intense couple of weeks, going to chefchaouen last weekend and ive just got back from a night in casa. chefchaouen was very good fun; it is a lovely little town in the rif mountains, which have long been associated with kif. we saw no reason to dispute that fact while we were there, and large amounts of the time there i probably have to tell you in person when i [View Full Entry]

Finbar - Anderson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: February 2nd 2009 | 29 Views | [diary=369541]


After a week or so, Drew and I departed from Tagazuit on a solid mission to achieve a visa for India . During our stay in the surf town, Drew blew out his eardrum in a gnarly surf fall. Our good friend, Sylvain gave us a lift to Agadir so we could visit the hospital and request a diagnosis. The effect was not too harsh, but would have to keep Drew out of the water for at least a month. After obtaining (medicament), we found the bus station and carried on our way to Rabat . We stayed in Rabat for [View Full Entry]

Talia Atkins - Talia | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 7th 2009 | 75 Views | [diary=384071]