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Shoes accumulate in piles outside of the mosque while worshippers go in to pray.
Locals sit around at cafes as usual, but tea, coffee and snacks are notably absent from the tables.
The windows on the minaret in the middle of Al Akhawayn University stay lit well into...
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I’ve always been a bit concerned about how my religious views or lack thereof would be received by my Moroccan classmates. Nuri Omar, the Arabic and chemistry instructor at ISU, advised me to keep my opinions to myself and, if someone pried, to claim some uninteresting variety of...
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Almost immediately after returning from the Fez trip the students at Al Akhawayn were in a hurry to make preparations for the next weekend, which would be three days long thanks to the Moroccan elections.
In terms of planning the Fez trip was simple. All one needed was...
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I returned from Fez via taxi an hour ago and I’m still trying to digest the sensory overload that I experienced this weekend.
Morocco is a country full of amazing cities: Fez, Casablanca, Marrakech, Tangier and Rabat to name the big ones. Everyone seems to have their own opinion as...
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