Book Review: A Year in Marrakesh

Book Review: A Year in Marrakesh

Peter Mayne’s A Year in Marrakesh was first published nearly 60 years ago. It remains a remarkable achievement in travel writing, even today, for its insights into a culture isolated from much of modernity’s reach. Travel memoirs seem to fall into three camps. There...

Book Review: Berber Odes

Part of Eland’s Poetry of Place collection, Berber Odes is a compilation of poetry in translation edited by Michael Peyron, visiting professor at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. From my year spent studying abroad at Al Akhwayn in 2003-2004, I still have...