For five days, Troyes had sun and even a little heat.  Then, yesterday, it started to rain, and it’s been off and on ever since. In 48 hours, I will be in the middle of my trans-Atlantic flight back to the US.  Sometimes in Morocco, to pass the time, Ryan and I talked about what […]

Officially, the Spring 2015 Lewis & Clark Study Abroad Program to Morocco is over.  We’ve turned in all of our papers and have gone our separate ways.  As I write this, I am sitting in an apartment in Troyes, France, where I’ll be for the next nine days. In the past five days, I’ve spent […]

The following is my final essay that I turned in for Dr. Ennaji’s class on Moroccan Social Movements. The literature surrounding Moroccan Independence and Colonialism spreads over multiple formats, genres, and, most importantly, languages.  The legacy of French Colonialism has been recorded by both Western and Moroccan voices, with different opinions regarding the outcome.  This […]

The following is the essay I wrote for my class with Dr. Fatima Sadiqi on gender issues in Morocco: From the first day of this class, we have greatly discussed the Moroccan-patriarchy as a space-based patriarchy.  In this model, patriarchy exerts its control through dictating appropriate places for men and women to be and act.  […]

This is going to be a short post.  For all the students here, life has focused in on writing essays while still finding ways to see the last bits of the city that we can.  We have three major projects due– a research paper on gender for Dr. Sadiqi, a research paper on social movements […]