An addendum to my last post, in case I wasn’t clear: This issue, for me, is not about Morocco or Muslim countries, as some of my readers apparently seem to think. When I say religion is personal, I mean religion is personal, and if your beliefs don’t affect me, then you can do whatever you […]
In a post I wrote recently for Global Voices, I covered the efforts of the Mouvement Alternatif pour les Libertés Individuelles, a new Moroccan activist group that recently made headlines for eating in public during Ramadan. In effect, they broke the law; Article 222 of the Moroccan Penal Code stipulates that a Muslim who openly […]
I remember a time when the world felt big. Where, as an angsty nineteen year old, I told a friend over cigarettes and copious amounts of coffee that the better alternative to suicide was to run away, lose yourself in a part of the world that you’d never even imagined. I remembered that conversation three […]