“The North African mule talks always of his mother’s brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.”
- Clifford Geertz
“That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.”
- John Erskine
“Fear can make a donkey attack a lion.”
- Arab Proverb
As some of you may have heard, Barbaro was euthanized this morning. What makes it even sadder is this statement from his owner:
Gretchen Jackson admitted during a May 24 news conference that the couple may have broken the golden rule of horse ownership.
“I’m very afraid so,” she said when asked if they loved Barbaro. “One […]
Sadly, I can no longer recommend the Baraka Chronicles. Anyone who gathers porcupine quills for the sole purpose of decorating a mirror frame (poor porcupine!) is not quite as cool as I thought. They even had their local “herbalist” find them a “porcupine pelt” for more quills. Eeeeew, hshuma.
Reading Cat in Rabat’s hilarious description of neighborhood hanuts, I was reminded of my own friendly hanuts back in Rabat - I miss those guys. As Cat points out, 99.8% of hanuts are owned by Berbers. These Berbers are almost always Soussis, therefore speaking Tachelheit as their primary language, not darija. Before my husband […]
As posted on Maghrebia.com:
Rabat : Plus d’un milliard de dollars investis dans des projets de développement touristiques (13/11/2006)
Samedi 11 novembre, le Gouvernement marocain a signé deux protocoles d’accords avec le groupe immobilier marocain Addoha, d’un montant d’1,27 milliard de dollars, et concernant des investissements immobiliers et touristiques à Rabat. Ces projets, qui devraient s’achever dans […]
