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	<title>Fulbright-mtvU Fellows &#187; Rod Solaimani &#8211; in Morocco</title>
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	<description>Fulbright and mtvU sent students around the world to study and promote &#34;the power of music.&#34; Check out their blogs here.</description>
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		<title>Tangier-America Day! (and my 1st academic conference, ever)</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/09/13/tangier-america-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aicha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fulbright Symposium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M’Alem Abdellah El Gourd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nacim Haddad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Kaplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tangier-America Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zakaria Aktoui]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As it happened, the US Cultural Attaché in Morocco caught Nacim and Zakaria’s performance at the Fulbright Symposium (see previous post for videos). A week later, the American Embassy in Rabat contacted me to help organize a fusion performance for Tangier-America Day in &#8211; you guessed it &#8211; Tangier. I happily obliged. The idea was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gnawa Show at the Fulbright Symposium</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/07/15/gnawa-show-at-the-fulbright-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aisha Qandisha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awlad Al-Bambara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nacim Haddad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samuel Kaplan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year the Moroccan American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (aka MACECE) hosts a 3-day conference to bring together all the Fulbrighteres in the country to present their findings. After opening remarks by US Ambassador Samuel Kaplan and his wife Sylvia, we heard from professors, students, and visiting scholars, on a variety of subjects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of the Kasbah Gnawa (and the French Circus School)</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/06/21/the-legend-of-the-kasbah-gnawa-and-the-french-circus-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecole Du Cirque Shemsi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gnawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasbah Gnawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professor Deborah Kapchan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahabbism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, Nacim, Zakaria and I strolled out to the coast of Sale to explore the Kasbah Gnawa, a fort that dates back hundreds of years and once held newly arrived slaves. It’s a truly remarkable site that is quickly losing its historical significance. Due to a variety of external pressures, ranging from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does it Take to be a Gnawi?</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/06/04/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-gnawi/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/06/04/what-does-it-take-to-be-a-gnawi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdel-Hafid Chlyeh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gnawi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ibn Bukhara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kitab Bukhara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nacim Haddad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Viviana Paques]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zakaria Aktoui]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Great question. In the course of my research, I’ve encountered all sorts of answers from the Masters, but I’m also interested in what the younger generation has to say on the matter. So, I spent several afternoons shooting the breeze with Nacim Haddad and Zakaria Aktoui, on the other side of the Bouregreg River in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oujda Chronicles (Pt. Deux): A Torrid Tale of Nabil’s First Flight</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/06/03/the-oujda-chronicles-pt-deux-a-torrid-tale-of-nabil%e2%80%99s-first-flight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We last left our brave protagonist (me) escaping the manicured clutches of a walking perfumery. Although I suffered no life-threatening injuries, I could sense that something was out of whack in the universe. I’m not saying I was hexed, but few things can explain the supernatural unlucky streak I survived in the ensuing 48 hours. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oujda Chronicles: A Torrid Tale of Nabil’s First Flight</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/05/04/the-oujda-chronicles-a-torrid-tale-of-nabil%e2%80%99s-first-flight/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/05/04/the-oujda-chronicles-a-torrid-tale-of-nabil%e2%80%99s-first-flight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casablanca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dante]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morocco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oujda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Where is Oujda?” I asked my host brother, Nabil. “In Morocco,” he responded matter of factly. Armed with this new-found knowledge, I decided to join him for his first airplane experience. As it were, Nabil recently enrolled in a flight attendant school and their final exam is administered several thousand feet in the air. Vomiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fez’s Fatal Tigers vs. Casa (and the check-out line of shame)</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/04/13/fez%e2%80%99s-fatal-tigers-vs-casa-and-the-check-out-line-of-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/04/13/fez%e2%80%99s-fatal-tigers-vs-casa-and-the-check-out-line-of-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Casablanca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A noon game isn’t easy on the liver, or so I’ve been told. A coterie (Yes, I’m studying for the GREs) of my pick-up soccer associates invited me along to procure “energizing” refreshments at Marjane – the Costco of Morocco. While it’s not unusual to see separate sections for beer and wine, it was quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Abdellah Pt. Trois (What is Jazz?)</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/03/04/the-search-for-abdellah-pt-trois-what-is-jazz/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/03/04/the-search-for-abdellah-pt-trois-what-is-jazz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdellah El-Gourd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gnawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hajhouj]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qarqaba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quranic School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Weston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy D. Fuson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before the other Fulbrighters arrived, Andrew, Kendra, and I were led into a cramped room, where we greeted by gap-toothed smiles and an ever-thickening purple haze of smoke. After exchanging Moroccan pleasantries, we squeezed in next to our hosts. The gentlemen reclining to my left was a Master of the qarqaba (a metal variation on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Search for Abdellah Pt. Deux</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/01/08/the-search-for-abdellah-pt-deux/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/01/08/the-search-for-abdellah-pt-deux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdellah "Boulkhair" El Gourd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gnawa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Weston]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fulbright.mtvu.com/?p=1233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[9/20/2009- We spent almost all day looking for M’Alem Abdellah El-Gourd’s Dar Gnawa, which, believe it or not, turned out to be right next door to our hostel! Personal Legend! The universe conspiring! Need I say more? When he opened the bronze door to his home we inquired as to weather he was the “bearded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fulbright Jam at Café Detroit &amp; The Search for Abdellah</title>
		<link>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/01/07/fulbright-jam-at-cafe-detroit-the-search-for-abdellah/</link>
		<comments>http://fulbright.mtvu.com/rodsolaimani/2010/01/07/fulbright-jam-at-cafe-detroit-the-search-for-abdellah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Solaimani - in Morocco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdellah El-Gourd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Skroch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasbah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kendra Salois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ramadan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Weston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rashidah E. McNeill]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[9/20/2009 &#8211; The following morning (still Ramadan on account of a shy moon), the Fulbright crew put on a live concert for a thrilled audience of exactly 2 Spanish tourists. The venue? Café Detroit in the Kasbah. How it happened? I’m not sure, but like all great adventures it started by stopping to ask a [...]]]></description>
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