Yesterday, Hanane read a passage from Fatima Mernessi’s book Dreams of Trespass at an event to celebrate women’s day. It was a nice gathering at Cafe Comedie in the Fes ville nouvelle.
I hadn’t been there before and it was a great place, though one of the big problems you always face in Morocco is that [...]
The movies I showed at the American Language Center in Fez during the last two weeks were far different than my first round of classic Academy Award Winners. I decided that since I was looking to spawn great conversations but that my audience was primarily Moroccan teens, I decided to address two issues that are [...]
A few weeks ago, I decided to show an absolutely terrible movie to the students at the ALC Fez. The movie I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is a parody of the black exploitation films of the 1970s. From the get go, this film had no chance to be good. There is something compelling about the [...]
I’ve been running the film club at the ALC Fez for a few months now and I thought I would write a little bit about the films that we’ve shown and the reaction to them from the Moroccan students who attended. The first film as previously discussed was Casablanca.
http://www.vagobond.com/2010/01/casablanca-the-film-revisited/
For the next one, I chose another [...]
I’ve recently set up a film club in Fes. The idea is to get people together to watch films, discuss films, and practice their English skills. The project is part of my work with the American Language Center.
The first film we watched was ‘Casablanca’ the 1942 classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. My [...]
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