The New York Times has a brisk tourist guide to Casablanca.
April 2006 Archives
Laila Lalami has won a Fulbright to go back to Morocco for nine months to study Islamic extremism and secular movements. Based in Casa, she will also do volunteer work in a poor neighborhood. Godspeed.
The Morocco Foundation is making new efforts to aid children with Down's Syndrome. In addition to providing material aid, board members are acting as Big Brothers and Big Sisters to the children.
Starting Over in a Caliph's Castle - New York Times
SETTING up house in a North African slum is not at the top of many wish lists. But as the writer Tahir Shah explained recently, his family's relocation from a cramped apartment in London to a 10-bedroom mansion in this sprawling coastal city was partly to help his two children escape the cultural insularity of his own youth.
The New York Times reviews Tahir Shah's The Caliph's House. Not the least interesting part of the review is the photographs.
