Nov 15, 2021
THE MELLAH OF MARRAKECH, THE JEWISH QUARTER OF MARRAKECH MOROCCO
On my first full day in Marrakech I decided to visit and savour the Jewish Quarter or MELLAH of Marrakech. I was staying at a Riad in the Medina and…
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Nov 15, 2021
LA PETITE POETE DE COTE SAUVAGE AND THE BRASILIAN POET CECILIA MEIRELLES .. E MOI, AVEC SAUDADE
The Young poet of Cote Sauvage, one day said to me: The waves are coming to say Hello to the Earth .. She will grow up to be another Cecilia…
Nov 15, 2021
MY NEW FRIENDS IN MARRAKECH..SMILES AND HELLO AND ALWAYS MADE TO FEEL WELCOME
If I stayed one month in the Medina of Marrakech, i am sure I will have to say Hello to hundreds of people. People remember you and of course, being…
Nov 15, 2021
RUE DE RIVOLI IN PARIS TO KENDALLTOWN IN MIAMI. TEN YEARS ON THIS DAY OF MOURNING 25.11.2021
We had been invited to dinner at the home of the daughter of my Brother Youssef. It is only a short walk from where I am staying with him. The…
Nov 15, 2021
MOROCCO IS NOT AN ARAB COUNTRY, IT IS A BERBER COUNTRY OCCUPIED BY ARABS WHO CAME FROM BAGHDAD AND THE EAST
Currently there is a. great fascination in the west for "occupied lands and peoples". A deep examination would reveal a group of people who do not have a wholistic understanding…
Nov 15, 2021
MY MOROCCAN JEWISH CONNECTION: NOW WE ARE ALL JEWS
When I arrived in MIami to do postgraduate work in Endocrinology, one of my colleagues at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital was a Panamanian Jew by the name of…
Nov 15, 2021
GIVE THANKS TO ALL THINGS USA HAS GIVEN TO YOU, WROTE MY FRIEND DR MARCOS MORDECHAI ON THIS DAY
Even though I have a very long association with USA and especially Miami, I have never considered living here nor was I forced to live here. That is, until Covid…
Nov 15, 2021
AFRO BERBER CULTURE AND BERT FLINT . AN AFTERNOON IN MARRAKECH
Bert Flint, a dutch ethnologist passionately befriended studied and helped and collected artifacts and postulated the nativeness of BERBER people of North West Africa and the sub Sahelian branch of…
Nov 15, 2021
ON THIS DAY OF MOURNING WHICH AMERICANS CALL THANKSGIBING, BLESSED TO HAVE A CUBANITA MAKING CORTADITO AND PABLO’S POEMS
Today is the Day of Mourning for the Native Americans. I wanted to be alone. The roads were empty. I went to Ricky's cafe and sat under a photograph of…
Nov 15, 2021
ARRIVAL IN MARRAKECH AND YOUSSEF THE DRIVER
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2021/11/arrival-in-marrakech-and-youssef-driver.html
Nov 15, 2021
CHRISTINE LAGARDE OF FRANCE AND YUVAL NOAH HARARI OF ISRAEL .. TWO SUPERB MINDS THAT I ADMIRE .
There are many things that I remember about Christine Lagarde during my stay in France. She was the Minister for Economy who went on to become the Director General of…
Nov 15, 2021
BRITISH AIRWAYS 207 LONDON TO MIAMI. A GOOD TIME SPENT ON AIR. A PLEASANT JOURNEY OF CIVILIZED SERVICE
I am not in the habit of writing Trip Reports (there are plenty of websites for that), but one thing remains that I do enjoy flying and my own little…