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WORLD- WIDE WEB: P.4 ASH KHABARNA1: p.16 FOM Souk: . p.24 ~ . " A Newsletter Another Holiday on the Horizon Ramadan, celebrated by the world's 1.2 billion Moslems, will begin around 21 January, this year, with The 29th of February through 3 Presentations will include the partici- the exact time and date depending March 1996, are dates to mark on pation of Peace Corps, the Embassy on local time zones and lunar condi- your calendaras soon as possible. of Morocco, the U. S. State Depart- tions. ment, USAID, the Tangier-American 1 March 1996 will be the 35th an- Legation Museum Society, W. Res- The traditional month of fast in Is- niversary of the signing of the act sell Pickering of Moroccan Rug and lamic beliefs, it is celebrated in by that authorized the Textile Insti- the faithful in nearly every country on Peace Corps. tute, the the globe. new English Friends of Morocco language AI The Council on American-Islamic will be there, and we . Akhawayn Relations says that some people hope that you'll be University may loose weight during Ramadan, able to join us there, at Ifrane, ; but most wi II not. The Council said in too. We are planning the VOA It an intelView with Scripps Howard a Saturday 2, March and Arab )r News SelVices that "it is recom- 1996, assembly be- Network of al mended that meals eaten during Ra- tween 1 hOO and 8hOO, America, as madan be light, but most people for films, music, pre- well as can't resist sampling special sweets sentations, and a Mo- many others ~\j.1 and food associated with Ramadan." roccan meal. The theme is or~C Moroccan education and cu"ure in A 1 March dinner honoring Sargent ~ the United States. ...&1\ "ti~ \ , Frl.nd- «>f' ~«>r«>cc«> 6 Winter 95/96 Talis Productions has announced Moroccans through their weaving between Moroccans and South- a multimedia event that is being traditions; the culture and family western Native Americans; developed for public television life of American Indians in the African, Jewish, and Middle East- entitled Threads of Two Cultures. Southwest U.S. through their ern influence on Moroccan weav- weaving traditions; and a compar- ing; and Moorish influence on It is a cross-cultural study of rural ative study of those cultures. Navajo weaving. Moroccan and Southwestern Amer- The project is ican Indian weaving currently in the traditions, with a fund-raising goal of educating phase,develop- millions of children ing major corpo- and adults through- rate production out the Western support, a pro- world. cessthat should be completedby The project includes April. a two-hour film doc- umentary hosed and For more infor- narrated by Morgan mation (or if you Freeman, with the would like to un- heart of the film derwrite the pro- being expeditions to Morocco and Also covered in the program, will gram, contact Jefferson Hyde, the American Southwest. Three be the history and present-day Talis Productions, 308 Alta integrated museum exhibitions culture of Morocco; the Moroccan Street, Santa Fe NM 87505, will also be created, one of those tradition of racial tolerance; the 505.984.5052. being -an exhitjtion on the Inter- histories, customs, and music tra- net. ditions of the specifi c tri bespeople visited; the religious traditions of Also included will be a companion Morocco and Southwestern art book, an interactive CD, a American Indians; the historical music CD from the soundtrack, connections betNeen the U. S. and an electronic field trip broad- and Morocco; the Spanish link be- cast to U.S. schools. tween Morocco and the South- west U.S.; the similarities The three main subjects of The between Moroccan and South- Threadsof Two Cultures,will be western Native American beliefs; the culture and family life of rural possible pre-Columbian contact -~ ~A Richard Holbrooke (Rabat 69:'71, .and if they don't release the his return to New York is behind PC Country Director) has contin- hostages,bomb them to hell." his original schedule. ued his not-50-low profile over the past year. as head of the negotia- A Washington Post editorial, re- Dick will continue to play an advi- tions team for the Bosnian/Serb sponding to the constant "digs" at sory role on Bosnia, possibly un- peace. Dick, said that, "it's not as though dertaking diplomatic missions to Dick Holbrooke had offended the the region after his resignation. Making front page and lead story sensibilities of a modest, re- appearances in The New Vorl< strained, self-effacing community Times Magazine, Newsweek, and here. This is Newt Grigrich'stown about every other current events and yours, too. Yes, Mr. Hol- publication, as well as on all of the brooke is a tough customer. Evi- wire services, television, and dently that's what the diplomacy radio, Dick has come a long way called fro. Always including the since her wrote, as called by the Balkan caveat-things could go Washington Post, an "admiring from bad to terrible at a moment's magazine profile of Henry notice-we think he has done one Kissinger" twenty years ago. De- heck of a job and should be com- scribing Kissinger as "an ex- mended for it-period." tremely difficult man, difficult to trust, difficult to work for..." Hol- Since the negotiations, it has brooke has been described by been rumored that Dick will leave similar phrases by both admires the State Department, going back and detractors within and without to Wall Street. The rumors an- the Clinton Administration. swered with denials or "cannot confirm." His success in arriving at a Bosnian peace (however unsta- A Washington Post year-end arti- ble the area may continue to cle seems to have confirmed the seem) is a testimony to his "fre- relocation, saying that netic as usual" negotiations "...(Holbrooke) told President where he "...shouted, whispered, Clinton that he will leave his post and threatened, even to excess." of assistant secretary of state for (says the NY Times). An exam- European affairs 'early next year' ple. when the Serbs seized UN to spend more time with his wife hostages in May, "Holbrooke ex- and family in New York. Inatele- ploded: 'Give the Serbs 48 hours, phone interview, he confided that ..u -81\ ",\.i~ \ Frlend- ' ~~ "~r~cc~ 8 Winter 95/96 Chicago/casablanca Sister Cities program "A constantly Developing Relationship" Since 1892,Chicago has shared is a partnership with the Depart- a sister city relationship with ment of Pediatrics of the Univer- Casablanca.Since that time,'the sity of Illinois Hospital and Chicago-Casablanca Sister Medical School, and the Pediatric Though it may be nothing more than CitiesCommittee. has sponsored Department of the Ibn Rochd the stuff urban legends are made of, exchangesinvolving youth, cul- Hospital in Casablanca. the following was excerpted from a 7 ture.and business. January 1996, Dear Abby c~umn. The long-termgoal of the project though it's almost too delightful notto In the summer of 1994, the Com- is to providethe Casablancahos- have been embellished over the mittee organized a community pital with the technologyand ex- years. It was a response to an article youth service project, that in- pertise of the U of I, in terms of on the etiquette of eating asparagus. volved inviting seven Chicago neonataland pediatric care. teenagers and seven Casablanca "Dear Abby:... ~i/e growing up in teenagers to volunteer for three The Chicago Sister Cities I nt~ Paris, my mother, who was a weeks at Casa's Lalla Hasna or- tional Program, Inc., has as its debutante, attended a cinner phanage. An exhibit touring mission, "to engage the people of given by French President Ray- Chicago public high schools was Chicago and its sister cities mond Poincare at the Elysee created with the students' sou- abroad in partnerships that pro- Palace for the King of Morocco. venir photos and journals. mote trade, economic develop- Asparagus vinaigrette was ment, cultural awareness, and served. Everybody waited for the Other activities have included educationalopportunities." Kingtoiryit. He did, blAfoundthe business-ta-businesstrade mis- tough end too tough. He looked sions, a sister-citiespoetry com- For more information, contact the around to see what other people petition. local lectures/slide Chicago Sister Cities Interna- did with it, but of course, everyone sfJows,and a visit to Chicagoby tional Program, Inc., Chicago De- was waiting for him. So when he six Moroccangovernors. partment of Cultural Affairs, 78 E. thought no one was watching, he Washington Street, Chicago IL tossed the tou~ end over his The Committee'scurrent project 60602,312.744.8074. shoulder. The other guests, think- ing that was a Moroccan custom, did the same. Soon the floor around the table became so slippery, none of the sefVers could get near the table. The rest of the dinner was a disas- ter-and to this day, the dinner for the K;ng of Morocco at the Elysee Palace has taken its place ;n h;s- tory. H Winter 95/96 9 "Today, the former shanty In an effor1to develop the Tangier collections of books from Ambas- dlvellers live in neat homes American Legation Museum sador Joseph Verner Reed and (TALM) into a research cente.~ anthropologist David Hart. Both in mixed income neighbor- hoods with shops and and specialized library on Nor1h have amassed unique libraries on schooIs. " Africa, director Thor H. Kuniholm Morocco and North Africa. is seeking funding for a full-time David Hales writes in the Ann librarian to assume responsibility To date, all has been achieved Arbor News that only a decade for the libraries and the facility, exclusively through the efforts of ago, Taza was a "dense concen- and to assist with the planning and the director, his family, and volun- tration of corrugated tin slum implementation of cultural and teers from the Tangier Moroccan, dwellings blighted by 25 different educational activities.