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MOROCCO’S BUM RAP
on Oct 29, 2009 in Uncategorized Many years ago I saw a Hitchcock mystery film with James Stewart and Doris Day called The Man Who Knew Too Much. (1956). At the beginning of the movie an American man comes stumbling across the square Djemma El Fna (Square of the dead) in Marrakech,...
DINNER WITH THE KING? WHAT SHOULD I BRING?
on Dec 14, 2008 in Uncategorized Four hundred copies of my book was the answer NEW YORK CITY PLAZA HOTEL Someone once said, “Perspective, use it or lose it.” That being the case, what I was going through at the moment was a far cry from losing perspective. I’m in t...
A Faux Paux at the Parliament of Man
on Dec 11, 2008 in Uncategorized July 1993 I wasn’t properly dressed for a meeting with Minister Sinaucer, at least not compared to the line of men sitting in his office waiting room, wearing their Sunday best, for, what would probably be the only time they would ever mee...
A boar hunt with a princess
on Dec 1, 2008 in A boar hunt with a princess Here's a question: If you're standing on a ten feet. by ten feet. concrete platform, five feet high, on dirt, how many charging wild boar would it take to make the platform tremble? I was crouched so low behind Princess Lalla Amina, who had just sco...
MOROCCO… AN INSPIRATION IN CHANGE
on Nov 23, 2008 in morocco King Mohamed treaty of peace
An Inspiration of Tolerance
on Nov 20, 2008 in morocco Marrakech souks Alf Taylor: Souks, Morocco The souks (back streets of the old city) of Marrakech are a labyrinth of miles of winding, common walls. Even after more than thirty years of navigating them via foot and bike, I still sometimes get hopelessly turned around...