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. […]
Essays Essays Essays
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 […]
Time Change
Our group went to Cetua this weekend, a Spanish enclave on the Northern Coast. We spent one night so that we could renew our visas the next morning. When Ryan and I woke up in our hotel room, things got confusing quickly. Both of our Moroccan throw-away phones told us that it was 6:15 in […]
What a Weekend
Today, March 22nd, is my father’s birthday. I spent the weekend driving from Fez to Sidi Ifni with Pauls, Karissa, Emma, Ryan, and Sam for the opening of Dar Si Hmad’s fog water system. We spent Friday driving down, making a stop in Marrakech to visit the CLC and all the old faces, before arriving […]
Dama versus Sheque
Morocco is only the second outside of the US that I have been to, the other being China. Early on in the trip, I decided that a life goal of mine would be to have a chess board from every country I spend time in. I already had one from the US and from China, […]