TALIM

Community Outreach Expanding:  Thanks to the volunteer efforts of six students from the American School of Tangier (AST), the core “curriculum” of Arabic literacy classes and manual skills  instruction, now includes art and computer classes for neighborhood youth. Other AST volunteers are teaching French and English to medina women—and a Spanish volunteer is teaching Spanish.  The Legation’s community outreach program, remains popular, attracting new members each year.  

                                                                  Manual  Skills Class 2009

Conference and reception for Tangier Author: A book-signing and reception was held at the Legation for community leader and social activist, Rachid Tafersiti, author of several books on Tangier. His latest book and first novel, “Retou rà Tanger,”describes the reminiscences of a former Tangier  resident now living in Belgium.       

The Legation along with Abdelmalek Essadi University in nearby Tetouan and the National Institute of Applied Sciences held book-signing events for Tafersiti.  The event at the Legation attracted a full house.

Standing room only for Tangier author

People-to-People Visit: The Legation hosted the visit of a large People-to-People delegation from across the U.S. This program, initiated by President Eisenhower, seeks to promote contacts among young people around the world.  The Legation cooperates with the Tangier chapter. 

                                    
                                                     People to People Delegation at The Legation

 Syndicated Cartoonist Jan Eliot: The Legation hosted a talk by Jan Eliot whose cartoon, Stone Soup, appears daily in 200 newspapers including the Los Angeles Times. She was visiting Morocco under U.S. State Department auspices and in cooperation with the American Embassy Public Affairs Office in Rabat.  

                                                                                           
                                                         Explaining the Life of a Professional Cartoonist

                                                    Signing the Legation Guest Book

 Visitors: In addition to several hundred drop-in visitors, the Legation hosted six groups in October that included  two American study-abroad groups, one from Rabat sponsored by AMIDEAST and the other from Seville.  We also hosted a group of Swedish university students traveling by sailing ship.

                                                TALIM Director Briefing Swedish Students on the roof

Newly-Arrived U.S. Ambassador, Sam Kaplan, and Mrs. Kaplan, dropped by for a visit while in the area for the weekend. 

Welcome Visitors