half-crazy desperation type: nonfiction  date: August 2, 2006  location: Essaouira, Morocco  rating: [not rated] To understand Morocco, it is necessary to spend time in bus stations at strange hours of the night. loss of identity type: nonfiction  date: July 31, 2006  location: Essaouria, Morocco  rating: 9.00 (1 vote) Yesterday I was told, not for the first time, that Europeans have lost their identity.... play somewhere else type: nonfiction  date: July 27, 2006  location: Essaouira, Morocco  rating: [not rated] "Play somewhere else" is what a French girl said to Nabil.... young entrepreneurs type: nonfiction  date: July 27, 2006  location: Essaouira, Morocco  rating: [not rated] When young Moroccans dream of escape.... fishermen type: nonfiction  date: July 25, 2006  location: Essaouira, Morocco  rating: 2.00 (1 vote) Moroccans are accomplished fishermen. They bait the hook and wait.... no surprise type: nonfiction  date: July 18, 2006  location: Marrakech, Morocco  rating: [not rated] My mother saw poverty and ignorance, noise and dirt. burdened with hope type: nonfiction  date: April 20, 2006  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] In Morocco one can understand a phrase like "burdened with hope." waiting for the rain type: nonfiction  date: August 15, 2005  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] During my last visit to Essaouira, I sat for a few hours with my friend Mohamed.... commander of the faithful type: nonfiction  date: Summer 2005  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Nabil was upset the other day because the king decided to come to a mosque in Fez. brilliant improvisers type: nonfiction  date: May 10, 2005  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] As a rule Moroccans are intelligent, a bit high-strung... uprising type: nonfiction  date: March 25, 2005  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I asked Boumedian how uprisings traditionally happen in the Arab world. young societies type: nonfiction  date: February 15, 2005  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Morocco is like a poor, crowded America.... traffickers type: nonfiction  date: August 6, 2004  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Sometimes I think that nearly all Moroccans are traffickers in something. guests of the police type: nonfiction  date: June 14, 2004  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] As Nabil and I were walking back to his house after midnight, a police van pulled up next to us.... downbeaten type: nonfiction  date: May 25, 2004  location: Sevilla, Spain  rating: [not rated] What gets to me is how much I've internalized the downbeaten Moroccan way of thinking. death of an artist type: nonfiction  date: May 24, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Boumedian told me the story of the most talented student he's ever had. casa barata type: nonfiction  date: April 11, 2004  location: Tangier, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Casa Barata is a jumble of low concrete buildings tacked onto each other.... late night type: nonfiction  date: March 30, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I’m in the restaurant where the late night buses stop on their way through town. downtrodden elves type: nonfiction  date: March 24, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I love Moroccans, really, no matter what some of them may say about the others. girlfriends type: nonfiction  date: March 20, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I know Hayat, Saloua and Zahra because they are the girlfriends of male friends of mine. foreign aristocrat type: nonfiction  date: March 16, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Sometimes I don't know whether I'm better off playing the foreign aristocrat.... twist of fate type: nonfiction  date: March 16, 2004  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Ali prepared himself to study at a German university. hidden masters type: nonfiction  date: March 13, 2004  location: Chefchaouen, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I hiked with Aziz up the mountain behind his house.... posters of the kings type: nonfiction  date: March 12, 2004  location: Tangier, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I keep forgetting to mention the posters of the kings. feudal society type: nonfiction  date: February 21, 2004  location: Tangier, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Morocco remains a feudal society.... minor madness type: nonfiction  date: November 8, 2003  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] I've been told more than once that Larache is a magical city, especially at night.... public streets type: nonfiction  date: October 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Nabil lives with his extended family in a three-room apartment.... predatory mentality type: nonfiction  date: September 27, 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] One thing I'm having trouble with is the social consequences of the money gap. those who hurry type: nonfiction  date: September 27, 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] The Arabs have a saying that "Those who hurry are dead." meet as brothers type: nonfiction  date: September 22, 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Why is it embarrassing to be asked for money? then what? type: nonfiction  date: September 22, 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] My curse is that it's hard for me to remain a tourist. morocco, a cruel country type: nonfiction  date: September 20, 2003  location: Fez, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Morocco is poor because the rich keep everything for themselves.... without a slave type: nonfiction  date: September 18, 2003  location: Larache, Morocco  rating: [not rated] Larache was the home of Jean Genet in his later years.... moroccan style type: nonfiction  date: September 5, 2003  location: Tangier, Morocco  rating: [not rated] In Tangier I didn't get to see the Qasbah.... leaving europe type: nonfiction  date: September 2, 2003  location: Algeciras, Spain  rating: [not rated] The police on the boat ask, "What will you be doing in Morocco?" not in the script type: nonfiction  date: March 29, 2003  location: San Francisco  rating: [not rated] What makes us so passive, I want to know? front lines type: nonfiction  date: March 24, 2003  location: San Francisco  rating: [not rated] I am sitting in a cafe on the front lines.... shock and awe type: nonfiction  date: March 20, 2003  location: San Francisco  rating: [not rated] Last night was the first attack, a "pinpoint strike".... hit the wall type: nonfiction  date: March 2003  location: San Francisco  rating: 7.00 (1 vote) I feel that the world is racing away from me. emerald kingdom type: nonfiction  date: February 2003  location: San Francisco  rating: 8.50 (2 votes) Now that I am finally ready to leave here....
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