AMA FY 12 Access Tahla Center students participate in Goal Two Project, (Tangier- August 25-27, 2015). The three-day program included a bunch of talks, presentations debates and workshops animated by Peace Corps volunteers, tours in the Medina, a visit to the American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies, and an evening in Cinémathèque de Tanger.
In 1961, President JFK established the Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship through three underlying core goals:
* To help the people of interested countries meet their needs for trained men and women.
* To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.
* To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.
Debates and workshops: The objective behind the workshops, talks and debates was to have participants understand what it means to be American, find out how people from other cultures may view Americans as a group as being different from themselves and discover how understanding one's own culture can help better understand another culture.
Visit to the American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies:
The Tangier Amrican Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) formerly known as TwALM), a thriving cultural center, museum, conference center and library in the heart of the old medina in Tangier, is housed in the only historic landmark of the United States located abroad. Saved from destruction by a small but dedicated group of diplomats and academics now operating as the Tangier American Legation Museum Society (TALMS), the Institute now operates with a locally-hired staff under the leadership of the Museum Director, Gerald Loftus.
As the AIMS research center in Morocco, TALIM has hosted many conferences on a wide variety of subjects. Through these AIMS conferences, TALIM encourages communication among North African scholars introducing them to the resources of the TALIM research library. The AIMS Maghribi scholar program administered in Morocco by TALIM compliments this objective by offering short term grants to Tunisian, Algerian, Mauritanian and Libyan scholars to conduct research in Morocco.
Cinémathèque de Tanger: (RIF CINEMA)
To wrap up the Tangier Peace Corps Goal 2 program, AMA FY 12 Access Tahla Center participants visited the Cinémathèque de Tanger (RIF CINEMA), watched "BOYHOOD" and voiced their opinions about the movie.
After six tireless years of renovation, Cinémathèque de Tanger opened its doors in 2006, in the historic Cinema Rif, with the aim of offering to the public films rarely seen in Morocco, and preserving and promoting the cinema of Morocco and the Arab world. Cinémathèque presents diverse screenings—from short films to documentaries, artists’ videos to narrative features—both within its own walls and abroad, as traveling programs. In addition, it also features educational programs, workshops for all ages, artists’ talks, and residencies, and continuously expands on an archive that represents the collective memory and vitality of Moroccan cinema.
A 12 year story of Mason the Younger, and his sister, Samantha lived a rough life with their mother, Olivia, divorced with their father, Mason. Mason is always giving them advices about living a simple life, when they were hanging out on the weekends. In their American-life journey, Mason Jr. must face the reality that his parents will never be together, started when his parents chose to marry again with other persons, and he must try to focus chasing his own career and achieving his dreams, step-by-step, even when the conditions are awful and full of ugly truths.
It has always been a pleasure to be there where youssef El Kaidi and his AMA FY 12 Access Tahla Center participants get together or move in order to improve their interpersonal communication skills, make new friends and acquire life-long learning resources. Big thank you goes to Charles Hintz for all the time and effort he has invested to make the journey happen and to all the young Peace Corps volunteers who shared their knowlege and expertise with our future interculturalists.
Thank you, John Davison, Director of the Tangier American Insitute for Moroccan studies, for your friendship and for the warm welcome. Thank you Mohammed Assetih, continuing teacher development activist, for your company and thank you to everyone we joined and everyone who joined us, offered us food and lodging, made our beds to lie proud, talked and listened to us or shared his/her knowledge and know-how with us.
Congratulations, Youssef EL Kaidi , for your on-going successful endeavor to serve not only English Language Education, where English Language Education is at stake, but your community as well. There is, I verily believe, so much Access Micro-scholarship program runners can learn from your expertise in talenting participants' English Language interpretive and interpersonal communication skills. Thank you for giving....
