STANFORD TRAVEL/STUDY

PATRICIA JONES, ’76, THE KINGDOM OF , 2019

FROM THE SAHARA TO THE SEA

March 13 to 27, 2020

a program of the stanford alumni association Few destinations offer as much intrigue as Morocco, a land of impressive mosques, exquisite palaces and labyrinthine souks. Morocco is home to a richly diverse landscape with its snow- capped Atlas Mountains, vast Saharan sand dunes, haunting Roman ruins and bustling fshing ports. Above all else, Morocco’s people are welcoming and gracious, inviting travelers into their homes in the centuries-old Berber tradition. On this trip we’ll have a chance to experience the traditional, indigenous Berber culture during a mule ride at the base of North Africa’s highest peak. With Dr. Martha Crenshaw, we’ll meet local educators and artisans who will share with us their experiences and perspectives as citizens living in a multifaceted kingdom. We invite you to join us on this remarkable and memorable adventure!

BRETT S. THOMPSON, ’83, DIRECTOR, STANFORD TRAVEL/STUDY Highlights TASTE some of the finest MEET with Moroccan SPEND the night in a crûs of Morocco and take academics at the Center desert camp and enjoy a cave tour at Domaine for Cross-Cultural the romantic thrill of tak- de la Zouina, one of the Learning, a private ing a camel ride atop the country’s prime wine institution in ’s dramatic windswept dunes producers. 17th-century medina. of the Sahara Desert.

COVER: MOROCCAN LAMPS IN A MARRAKECH SOUK

AÏT BENHADDOU Faculty Leader MARTHA CRENSHAW is a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Her primary areas of interest are international conflict and political violence. Since 2005, Dr. Crenshaw has been a lead investigator with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism under the aegis of the Department of Homeland Security, and has lectured for the U.S. State Department on Morocco and Algeria. She continues to conduct research on the rise and expansion of violent Islamism in the as well as in the Sahel region. On this trip, Dr. Crenshaw will lecture on how Morocco and other monarchies largely escaped the turmoil of the Arab Spring, and “Professor Crenshaw its relations with other countries in North Africa. She will also touch on the often-overlooked history of Moroccan nationalism and resistance to possesses that French colonialism. Finally, she will expand upon the country’s role as an international ally, and as a moderate force in the region today. rare combination of — Co-author of Countering Terrorism, 2017; Author of Revolutionary Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria, 1954–1962, and Explaining extensive knowledge Terrorism: Causes, Processes, and Consequences — Senior Fellow, 2007, and emerita Senior Fellow, 2019, Center and the ability to for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University — Professor of political science by courtesy, School of Humanities communicate it and Sciences, Stanford University, since 2007 — At Wesleyan University: professor of government, 1987–2007; flawlessly and chair, department of government, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97; director of international studies, 1993–94 effectively. She is — Wesleyan University Award for Teaching Excellence, 1995 — International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar Award, a star!” 2016 — Corresponding fellow, British Academy CARL SCANDELLA, — ABA, political science, 1967, Newcomb College of PHD ’71, ALONG THE Tulane University MEKONG, 2017

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THE VALLEY OF DADES Atlantic Salé Ocean Rabat Fes Bou IFRANE Regreg NATIONAL River PARK MOROCCO M OROCCO Midelt Ziz Valley Marrakech Todgha Aghmat Gorge Arfoud MT. TOUBKAL Sijilmassa NATIONAL PARK Erg Aït Benhaddou Chebbi

covered souks and its quarters Enjoy a tea break in a local where all types of crafts are home and a Berber lunch at Itinerary still fashioned by hand (and the award-winning Kasbah du foot!). Stop at the Ben Youssef Toubkal ecolodge. Returning FRIDAY & SATURDAY, Medersa, the largest of the to Marrakech, attend a private MARCH 13 & 14 theological schools initially set dinner at the home of the U.S. / MARRAKECH, up in the 14th century by the president of the Marrakech MOROCCO Marinid Dynasty. After lunch in Art Biennale, set amid the Depart the U.S. on overnight the medina, enjoy the afternoon palm groves outside the city. flights to Marrakech, arriving at leisure before a cocktail HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L,D) on Saturday and transferring reception at the famed Hotel to our hotel. This evening enjoy La Mamounia. HOTEL LA MAISON THURSDAY, MARCH 19 a welcome cocktail reception ARABE (B,L) MARRAKECH / and dinner of local specialties in AGHMAT / the heart of the old city. HOTEL LA TUESDAY, MARCH 17 OUARZAZATE MAISON ARABE (3/14: D) MARRAKECH / Head south to the archaeologi- ESSAOUIRA cal site of Aghmat, the first SUNDAY, MARCH 15 Drive to the coastal city of capital of the 11th-century MARRAKECH Essaouira, noted for its lovely Berber that Start the day with a visit to blue-and-white architecture founded Marrakech. After a light the 12th-century Koutoubia displaying both Moroccan and lunch, cross the spectacular Mosque—a reference of world Portuguese influences, 18th- Tizi n’Tichka pass to Aït Benha- —and the century ramparts, colorfully ddou, an assembly of multi- late-19th-century painted fishing boats, and for storied granaries often used of vizier Ba Ahmed, an example being the setting for much of as background for films (e.g., of Moorish-Andalusian art. Also ’ Othello. On the Gladiator). Next, visit the inter- visit the nearby private Tiskiwin way, look for the area’s infa- national film center of Ouarza- Museum of fine rural Moroccan mous goats climbing up argan zate, whose surroundings have and sub-Saharan crafts, and trees. Dine independently this been used in dozens of films, the Saadian Toombs, a last evening back in Marrakech. including Lawrence of Arabia. window into the splendor of HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L) LE BERBÈRE PALACE (B,L,D) early-17th-century Moroccan interior art. After lunch in the WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18 FRIDAY, MARCH 20 new city, stroll through its MARRAKECH / OUARZAZATE / garden of French orientalist MT. TOUBK AL BOUMALNE DADES Jacques Majorelle and visit its NATIONAL PARK Today, follow the Kasbah Trail new Museum of Berber Culture. Take a mule ride through with its fortified residences HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L,D) walnut-shaded terraced fields made of adobe. Drive up the at the base of 14,000-foot-high Dades Valley, considered MONDAY, MARCH 16 Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s southern Morocco’s most MARRAKECH highest peak, to observe the picturesque, with its variety of Explore Marrakech’s vast reed- ways of Berber tribesmen. orchards and odd rock forma- Atlantic Salé Volubilis Ocean Rabat Fes Bou IFRANE Regreg NATIONAL River PARK MOROCCO Midelt M OROCCO MAJORELLE GARDENS, MARRAKECH Ziz Valley Marrakech Todgha Essaouira Aghmat Gorge Arfoud MT. TOUBKAL Sijilmassa NATIONAL PARK Erg Aït Benhaddou Ouarzazate Chebbi

tions. Take an excursion to the spiritual capital of Fes. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25 the dramatic Todgha Gorge, FES (B,L,D) FES / RABAT Morocco’s “Grand Canyon,” Drive to the capital city of before settling in for the night MONDAY, MARCH 23 Morocco, Rabat, designated in in Arfoud. HOTEL KASBAH XALUCA FES 2013 as a World Heritage site. (B,L,D) Walk the narrow alleys of Enjoy a seafood lunch by the Fes, considered the last true crashing waves of the Atlantic, a SATURDAY, MARCH 21 example of a typical medieval leisurely walk through the white- BOUMALNE DADES / Arab town with its bustling washed Oudaïa Kasbah and ERG CHEBBI bazaars, colorful tanners’ the Chellah fortress, and an af- Head south to the Tafilalet quarters and fragrant spice ternoon stop at the Mausoleum Oasis—Morocco’s largest—and market. Visit the restored of Mohamed V, considered by visit the ruins of former caravan Attarine Medersa; the many to be modern Morocco’s hub Sijilmassa. After lunch in mausoleum of city founder “father.” VILLA MANDARINE (B,L) Arfoud, board 4WD vehicles Idriss II; the 17th-century and head into the Sahara’s Nejjarine caravanserai, now an THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Erg Chebbi, one of Morocco’s exquisite museum of wood arts; RABAT / SALÉ great sand dune areas, rising the 700-year-old Bou Inania Cross the Bou Regreg River 600 feet above the desert floor. Medersa; the famed Blue Gate; for a morning tour of Salé, a Spend the night in a desert and pottery and zellige mosaic traditional residential town camp, ride a camel or clamber tile workshops. RIAD FES (B,L) with a restored 14th-century up the dunes to witness sunset medersa, a gem overlooked by over the Sahara, followed by TUESDAY, MARCH 24 many tourists. Enjoy lunch and dinner and a bonfire at our FES / VOLUBILIS / a lecture on post-Arab Spring overnight camp. GOLD SAND MEKNÈS developments at the Center CAMP (B,L,D) Venture west to Volubilis, for Cross-Cultural Learning Rome’s commercial hub for situated inside Rabat’s me- SUNDAY, MARCH 22 the region until the 3rd century, dina. Visit the new Museum of ERG CHEBBI / MIDELT renowned for its numerous Modern and Contemporary Art, / IFRANE NATIONAL mosaics still in situ. Then travel a magnificent structure of neo- PARK / FES south to former imperial city Moorish architecture, followed Follow the palm-filled Ziz Valley Meknès and its astounding by a farewell cocktail reception across the stark, multihued granary, a World Heritage site and Moroccan dinner. VILLA expanses of the Eastern High built in the late 17th century by MANDARINE (B,L,D) Atlas range to the Berber en- Sultan Moulay Ismaïl to feed clave of Midelt for lunch. Take a the city’s population and his FRIDAY, MARCH 27 detour into Ifrane National Park, 12,000(!) horses. Tour the cave RABAT OR CASA- the last forest of giant Atlas ce- at Domaine de la Zouina, the BLANCA / U.S. dars, and try to spot a band of Kingdom’s prime wine pro- Transfer to the Rabat or indigenous Barbary macaques ducer, and enjoy a tasting of its airport for flights before arriving this evening in finest crûs before returning to home. (B) Fes. RIAD FES (B,L,D) costs Meals and beverages other than those specified as included Independent Trip Information and private transfers Trip-cancellation/

DATES interruption and baggage insurance March 13 to 27, 2020 (15 days) Excess-baggage charges Personal items such as internet access, telephone and fax SIZE calls, laundry and gratuities for nongroup Limited to 36 participants services COST* $8,995 per person, double occupancy AIR ARRANGEMENTS You are responsible for booking and purchasing $10,995 per person, single occupancy *Stanford Alumni Association nonmembers airfare to the start location and from the end add $300 per person location of the program. These air purchases are NOT included in the program cost. To assist INCLUDED you in making these independent arrangements, 12 nights of deluxe hotel accommodations; we’ll send you information with your confirmation

1 night of luxury camping 13 breakfasts, materials on when to arrive and depart. 12 lunches and 9 dinners Welcome and farewell cocktail receptions Gratuities WHAT TO EXPECT to porters, guides and drivers for all group We consider this to be a moderately strenuous activities All tours and excursions as program that is at times is physically demanding. described in the itinerary Transfers and Much of the walking takes place at ancient sites, baggage handling on program arrival and where paths can be rocky and uneven. In some departure days Minimal medical, accident instances steps are a necessary part of the tour and evacuation insurance Educational and may not have handrails. While hotels on this program with lecture series and pre-departure program do have elevators, in some occasions materials, including recommended reading list, they can only be reached by first ascending a a selected book, map and travel information staircase. Some days require early-morning starts, Services of our professional tour manager to as we often have a full schedule. Our journey may assist you throughout the program require several hours of travel by motor coach, the longest drives being up to eight hours including NOT INCLUDED stops. Participants must be physically fit, active

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FROM THE SAHARA TO THE SEA March 13 to 27, 2020

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