Moroccan/American

May 16 2024 5 ep. 44 mins 11

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Moroccan/American is a podcast about Morocco and the United States. These two countries have maintained a consistent and long-term friendship over centuries, even while their common interests have not always perfectly aligned. What started this relationship and what has sustained it? Diving into the fields of diplomacy, literature, trade, and art, in this podcast, we’ll dissect different parts of the Moroccan-American friendship and try to understand better this fascinating, complex, and close relationship.

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The Seduction of Morocco in American Anthropology

May 16 2024 45 mins

Students of Morocco, particularly those with experience in the American academy, are often struck by the volume of anthropological research conducted in Moroccan towns, cities, villages, and tribes. The 1960s witnessed an explosion of ethnographic interest in Morocco, spearheaded by Clifford and Hildred Geertz but certainly shaped by a longer trajectory of ethnographic work on Moro

The US and Morocco in the Age of Decolonization

May 07 2024 38 mins

Moroccan-American friendship is an old story, but an underappreciated chapter of that story came during the Moroccan movement from independence from France and Spain in the 1940s and 1950s. During this period, a handful of vocal Americans--most of them private citizens--began to advocate for Moroccan independence at home and abroad. At the same time, as the home to the new United N

American Orientalist Painters in Morocco, with Khalid Chaouch

Jan 23 2023 45 mins

The term "Orientalism" recalls both a Western artistic movement focused on depictions of an exotic "East" and reaching its apex in the 19th century, and Edward Said’s landmark book of the same title, which, of course, criticizes that very movement.You may know some of the iconic names of Orientalist painting: Delacroix, Gerome, Gericault, but less talked about is the work of Amer

Edith Wharton Goes to Morocco, with Stacy Holden

Jan 20 2023 50 mins

In this episode, we return to the theme of travelers. One of the most famous Americans to write about Morocco was Edith Wharton. Wharton was a popular and acclaimed author whose work focused primarily on New York City elite society at the turn of the twentieth century. She spent a great deal of time in Paris, spoke French fluently, and was intimately connected to important artists

The Moor's Account with Laila Lalami

Jan 20 2023 44 mins

In the summer of 1527, an expedition of approximately 600 men and women set off from Spain to explore what is now the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico and claim it for the Spanish crown. Among this group was a Moroccan slave by the name of Estebanico, from the city of Azemmour, just south of Casablanca, on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.The Narvaez Expedition, as it’s now known, was an