Although I’ve only just passed the midway point of my program, it’s beginning to look as if my time in Morocco is coming to a close. Arabic and migration studies classes end this Friday, and on Saturday I travel with my group to Northern Morocco and Andalusian Spain for a week. When I return, I have one week to prepare for a month-long independent study project. While I’m still fine-tuning my research question, my plan is to interview sub-Saharan migrants at the Moroccan-Algerian border about their clandestine migration experiences. I hope to produce a short-form documentary, melding photographs and audio. Here’s an example of the medium: Common Ground.
Since I last wrote, two weeks of classes have transpired. Last weekend, with a group of five other students I traveled to Fes. Fes is located in the Middle Atlas Mountains, and has the largest medina (a portion of the city dating back to medieval times) of any city in Morocco. The medina is fourteen square kilometers in area, and has approximately 9400 streets. I don’t have time to write a detailed account of our time there, but I do have photographs from my last two trips. The first page has photos from a group excursion to a rural village at the foot of the High Atlas mountains. I’m writing a more polished piece reflecting on my time with the Loteshina tribe that I hope to share in the coming month.
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