You have a job that pays you to travel around the world and think you’ve got nothing at all to be ashamed of, but then you spend a few nights with three Fulbright scholars and feel about as useful as a three-legged camel on the erg (as the old saying goes). Lizzie’s working on a project that studies the influence of English-language learning on Moroccan education, while her roommate, Nichole, is on her way to Rabat to play for a woman’s soccer team, examining how the sport is helping to reshape gender roles in the country. Danny, the third roommate, is looking at the effects of urban migration on Morocco’s Berber peoples. He’s spent two years with the Peace Corps in a small village in the south, learning an obscure local dialect that’s all but
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