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Sunrises, side streets, and swindlers in Fes

After deciding to slowly make our way up through Europe to arrive in Sweden for Christmas, we also decided that we would slowly make our way through Morocco before we arrived in Europe. We'd been living in Casablanca for a month, but hadn't made time to visit Marrakech, Fes, Tangier, Essaouria, the …

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Rabat conference notes — Part 2

See my previous post, Rabat conference notes -- Part 1, for my notes from the Les Ateliers de la Terre conference. The second conference I went to in Rabat was hosted by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), a global association of municpal policymakers, academics, and political figures. Held …

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Rabat conference notes — Part 1

In mid-September and early October, I attended two conferences in Rabat, a short train ride from Casablanca. As Morocco's political capital, it's a comparatively sleepy government town where lots of important people decide important things. Playing host to dignitaries and heads of state certainly …

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A tramway's transformative influence

Jeune Afrique, a weekly magazine that covers current affairs and politics across Africa, has published an excellent article chronicling the success of Casablanca's tramway system. The trams have been rolling for less than a year, but they're already absorbed into the city's daily life. As Waterloo …

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