Jan 15, 2026
Travels in 2025, Hopes for More Travels in 2026
A year-end travel reflection on movement, memory, and the places that shaped the year.
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Countries: <span>Morocco</span>
Browse the field notes by date, topic, place, and memory.
Jul 15, 2025
My Way of Travel
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
Jan 15, 2025
Why Don’t You Stay?
A bilingual reflection on travel, belonging, and the question of why one does not simply stay.
Jan 15, 2025
A Transcontinental Flight on Royal Air Maroc
A travel note from Casablanca to Miami, assessing the ordinary realities of a long Royal Air Maroc flight.
Jan 15, 2025
Happy New Year from Porto
A New Year reflection from Porto, carrying hopes for Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, the United States, and beyond.
Jul 15, 2024
THE POOR WILL WELCOME YOU BUT THE RICH WILL IGNORE YOU UNTIL THEY FIND YOU USEFUL
The Poor will welcome you but the Rich will ignore you until they find you useful .. Khalid is a Marrakshi, tall and with an urban berber look to him,…
May 15, 2024
THE NEW FRIENDLINESS IN MALAYSIA , A PERSONAL VIEW
The New Malaysia and its post-Covid spirit of open-mindedness and friendliness are truly remarkable. Since 2008, I've had the privilege of visiting Malaysia regularly and have always felt a deep…
Mar 15, 2024
THE LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE. THIS TIME IN MARRAKECH MOROCCO
Some books and certain authors enter your life at transforming moments and remain there, even as fashions change and seasons shift from torrid summers to autumnal tranquility. I first encountered…
Jan 15, 2024
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO
I AM AN AUSTRALIAN JEW AND I LOVE MOROCCO Jews have been present in Morocco for at least 2000 years and lived with the native Amazigh (Berber) people . There…
Jun 15, 2023
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM THIS STRIKING SILENCE OF THE HOUSE. CUBA IRAN ISRAEL INDIA CAYMAN ISLANDS JAMAICA MOROCCO FRANCE BELGIUM ARGENTINA MEXICO
TONIGHT as the time to light the shabbat candles, i was overcome by strong emotions. My UmonHon brother Charlie, of the Buffalo Clan, left us on his final journey to…
May 15, 2023
IF YOU WISH TO DIE EARLIER, MIGRATE TO THE USA, I TOLD A GROUP OF FOREIGN ENDOCRINOLOGISTS AT A MEETING
I am fortunate to visit USA to be with the indigenous people of that country and on arrival at JFK or Miami, the first thing that hits you, is the…
Mar 15, 2023
BERT FLINT WHO SPENT HIS ENTIRE ANTHROPOLOGICAL CAREER AMONG THE BERBERS , IS NO MORE
My friends from Casablanca were visiting Marrakech, and they also wanted to visit the Musee Tiskiwin, the tireless effort of over 6 decades of work among the Afro-Berber people by…