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The history of Tangier
Tangier’s history is a raucous tale of foreign invasion, much of it driven by the city’s strategic location at the entrance to the Mediterranean. The area was first settled as a trading base by the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians, and named for the goddess Tinge, the lover of Hercules, who legendarily pulled Europe apart from…
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Ibn Battuta
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler. He was known for his traveling and undertaking excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of almost thirty years, covering nearly the whole of the known Islamic world and beyond. His voyages extended from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe…
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Paul Bowles in Tangier
Paul Bowles in Tangier Of all of the expatriate writers who lived in Tangier, Paul Bowles was certainly the most famous and prolific, and he lived and worked a total of 52 years in the city. Why Paul Bowles in Tangier? Tangier, Morocco is a Mediterranean port city located on the Strait of Gibraltar,…