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The Many Faces of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM)
Tuesday March 9, 2010 6:30 pm-Networking; 7:00 pm-Program; 8:00 pm- Networking
Location: Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) 1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20036, Kenney Auditorium.
Panelists:
Dr. I William Zartman, President, TALIM
Dr. Diane Ponasik, Secretary, TALIM
Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Smithsonian Institution.
The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) is the only historic landmark of the United States located abroad, designated as such by the U. S. Department of the Interior. From 1821 until 1956, the U.S. diplomatic mission to Morocco was located here in the old walled Medina of Tangier. With the end of the French and Spanish Protectorates in 1956, all diplomatic missions moved from Tangier to the capital, Rabat. The American Legation building continued as the Consulate General for another five years until a new Consulate General was built outside the old Medina. For the next fourteen years, the historic building served as an Arabic language school for American diplomats and then as the Peace Corps training center. With the US Bicentennial Celebration in 1976, the Old American Legation (as it is known in Tangier) was renovated and twenty-five of the Legation's rooms, furnished with maps, prints and paintings from collections by Donald Angus and Marguerite McBey. Now at 45 rooms, 500 works of art, a library of 8000 volumes, and 15 public galleries, the Legations serves as a museum, research Center, Conference facility, and Community center for the American and Moroccan communities. The Tangier American Legation Museum Society (TALMS) changed its name in 2008 to Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM).
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Welcome and Introduction by Dr. I William Zartman, President
The Legation as a Historical Property and Museum by Dr. Diane Ponasik, Author of Tangier, a historical novel about Morocco. It is set at the Legation in Tangier and covers the period 1880-1912, just before the establishment of the French Protectorate.
The Legation is the only National Historic Trust Property outside the U.S. From 1821 to the end of the French protectorate in 1956, the American Consulate in Tangier served as our diplomatic mission to Morocco. The 45 room complex is filled with engravings and paintings that are attractively displayed in its well-appointed public galleries.
The Museum preserves the heritage of America and Morocco, reminding visitors of the long and friendly relationship with this moderate North African nation.
The Legation as a research Center by Dr. Mary Ellen Lane, Executive Director of Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Smithsonian Institution.
The TALIM Research Library is one of the most important libraries specializing on Morocco. It consists of 8,000 works: 40% in English; 30% in French; 10% in Spanish and 5% in Arabic as well as a collection in Portuguese. The library is comprised of: books, theses, monographs, periodicals, microfilm, maps, newspapers, and photographs. Of particular note are: the collection of more than 100 antique maps on the Mediterranean region; a bound newspaper collection covering the period 1884-1960; American consular correspondence with the Department of State (1797-1906); foreign travel accounts (17th to the 19th century); the official bulletin of the Protectorate period (1913-1942); a section on Operation Torch (the Allied landings in North Africa in 1942); and the Western Sahara Issue. In Morocco the TALIM Research Library is considered a primary reference library for university faculties in the area. (law, economics, science, literature). As the representative of The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) in Morocco, TALM has hosted many AIMS conferences on a wide variety of subjects -the status of women in North Africa, the walled Arab city in history, environmental issues, language in North Africa, North African literature, and in 2004 a conference on Rethinking the Jewish Presence in North Africa . The AIMS Maghribi scholar program administered in Morocco by TALM, compliments this objective by offering short term grants to Tunisian and Algerian scholars to conduct research in Morocco.
The Legation as a Community Center by Dr. I William Zartman, President, TALIM
The Tangier American Legation Museum (TALIM) has conducted a popular program for neighborhood women consisting of Arabic literacy instruction, sewing/handicraft classes for profit, foreign language classes taught by volunteers, and a lecture series on health, civic responsibilities, and culture. TALIM cooperates with a number of local associations such as Rotary Club, Micro-credit Foundation of the North, and the Tangier Medina Foundation-who have contributed to the activities.
For more Information: contact Tim Resch at timresch@gmail.com or phone: 703 470 3166
This event is one of many celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Washington Moroccan-Ameican Club. Details at http://wmc20.org
When & Where
Johns Hopkins University, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Kenney Auditorium.
1740 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington,
DC 20036
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)
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Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) and Friends of Morocco
The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM): Museum, Research Center, Conference Facility, Community Center and the only US Historic Landmark outside the United States. TALIM is housed in a spacious historic building in the Tangier medina that functions as a museum open to the public, a public research library, a conference facility, and a community center, and hosts a language program.
Friends of Morocco (FOM) is an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs), with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America united with in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America.