Program dates: 01/12/2015 – 04/18/2015
The 15 students studying in Morocco spent the majority of the semester living with host families in the cities of Marrakesh and Fez with excursions to the rural areas of southern Morocco and other cities throughout the program. Prior to departure, students study Modern Standard Arabic and a more intensive Moroccan Arabic course is taken while abroad. Some of the key topics considered are the diverse religious heritage of the region, Morocco’s distinctive architecture and urban landscape, colonial and post-colonial experiences, modernization and globalization, and women and gender relations.
Below is the link to a video one of the students made from the Morocco program.
http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7o9oEvc9vQ
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From Lesedi Khabele-Stevens - It’s the second to last to prayer of the day, and the moon is clear in a cloudless, gray-tinted sky. I am standing on the rooftop of a road. The air is cold and motionless. Off to my left, smoke is rising from the dinner prep downstairs. The windless air doesn’t (soak) up the scent […]Troyes - 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 […]
There’s Room for a Little More - 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 […]
Nostalgia and Loss - 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 […]
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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 […]
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