After Eid el-Adha, I took a day or two to rest. Eight hours slaughtering and eating and visiting with folks will tire you out, let me tell ya. Then, yesterday, my landlord rolled in with a few younger looking guys who were visiting their family from Meknes and Chefchaouen. He showed them the house and […]
Tag: Arabic language
Thirty Days
Thirty Days. It’s like America is so close but so far away at the same time. You may as well be dangling a giant cheesy gordita crunch in front of me and saying, “One month. You have to stare at it for one month, but you can’t eat it yet.” Sick, sad world. I think […]
Hassan.
So, here’s a few thoughts about a man who has had a big impact on my life the past two years, but I don’t know that I’ve ever even mentioned him, so it just seemed fitting to say a thing or two. When I arrived in my village, Hassan – the director of my youth […]
What it’s like to feel new again, or What’s all this Berber Stuff?
I spend a lot of time on my blog talking about the so-called Arab World, which really just describes countries where Arabic is the chief language. That makes sense, because I live in a community where Arabic is spoken almost exclusively outside of the home, and I rarely encounter anything else. But Morocco isn’t exactly […]
