Riad Salam

... with machine guns. "Quineitra? Yes!" I walked into the steel box outside the office, hand extended and shook everyone's hand. "A Salam A Lakem" I greeted all. "A Lakem A Salam" They all took turns replying. The permit came after only 15 minutes ...

Salam!   This past week, my dad came to visit me in Morocco for the first time since I've been here in eight months. I was overjoyed to show him around my site, where I work, be his tour guide, show off my Arabic skills. While we only stayed a night ...

Bonjour!!! Salam!!!! First, I must apologize for not updating this in over a month......Part of the reason why is because I have been working on college applications. I have completed most of the tedious work-sending transcripts, letters of ...

Just a quickie tonight to show you some contrasts between my downtown digs and my beachfront resort hotel that I transferred to today to meet my tour group.  It was a beautiful, sunny morning on my downtown balcony but I was very happy to check out ...

 We had grandiose plans of getting up early today to ride the train to Rabat and maybe Sale before we were due to meet up with the gang we would be spending the remaining couple weeks with.  Remember the previous entry about sleeping ...

Blasted by the heat and humidity when we landed, we knew we had arrived.  While it would be awesome to say it was relatively uneventful getting here, we are hard pressed to do that although it wasn't THAT bad.   Before leaving Seattle ...

We got an early start this morning because it will be a long day's drive as we cross the Middle Atlas Mountains and reach the Sahara Desert.  Our first stop was in the village of Ifrane which looked like it had been transplanted from the Swiss ...

Salamu Alaikum! Ich grüße euch von der Dachterrasse meines krass stylischen Hotels in Marrakesh (wieder einmal ein großes Danke an booking.com). Ich genieße die letzte Abendsonne, freue mich, dass ich die Probleme der Internetverbindung nun schon ...