FROM THE SAHARA TO THE SEA - March 13 to 27, 2020 a program of the stanford alumni association
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S T A N F O R D T R A V E L / S T U D Y
F RO M T H E S A H A R A T O T H E S E A
M a rc h 1 3 to 27, 2020
a p ro g ra m of th e st a nfo rd
a lu m ni asso ciati o n
Few destinations offer as much intrigue as Morocco, a land of impressive mosques, exquisite palaces and labyrinthine souks. Morocco is home to a richly diverse landscape with its snow- capped Atlas Mountains, vast Saharan sand dunes, haunting Roman ruins and bustling fishing ports. Above all else, Morocco’s people are welcoming and gracious, inviting travelers into their homes in the centuries-old Berber tradition. On this trip we’ll have a chance to experience the traditional, indigenous Berber culture during a mule ride at the base of North Africa’s highest peak. With Dr. Martha Crenshaw, we’ll meet local educators and artisans who will share with us their experiences and perspectives as citizens living in a multifaceted kingdom. We invite you to join us on this remarkable and memorable adventure! B R E T T S. T H O M P S O N , ’ 8 3, D I R E CTO R , S TA N F O R D T R AV E L / S T U DY Highlights T A S T E some of the finest M E E T with Moroccan S P E N D the night in a crûs of Morocco and take academics at the Center desert camp and enjoy a cave tour at Domaine for Cross-Cultural the romantic thrill of tak- de la Zouina, one of the Learning, a private ing a camel ride atop the country’s prime wine institution in Rabat’s dramatic windswept dunes producers. 17th-century medina. of the Sahara Desert. COVER: MOROCCAN LAMPS IN A MARRAKECH SOUK AÏT BENHADDOU
Faculty Leader
M A R T H A C R E N S H A W is a senior fellow at the Center for
International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute
for International Studies. Her primary areas of interest are international
conflict and political violence. Since 2005, Dr. Crenshaw has been a
lead investigator with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism
and the Response to Terrorism under the aegis of the Department of
Homeland Security, and has lectured for the U.S. State Department
on Morocco and Algeria. She continues to conduct research on the
rise and expansion of violent Islamism in the Maghreb as well as in the
Sahel region. On this trip, Dr. Crenshaw will lecture on how Morocco and
other monarchies largely escaped the turmoil of the Arab Spring, and
“Professor Crenshaw its relations with other countries in North Africa. She will also touch on
the often-overlooked history of Moroccan nationalism and resistance to
possesses that French colonialism. Finally, she will expand upon the country’s role as an
international ally, and as a moderate force in the region today.
rare combination of — Co-author of Countering Terrorism, 2017; Author of Revolutionary
extensive knowledge Terrorism: The FLN in Algeria, 1954–1962, and Explaining
Terrorism: Causes, Processes, and Consequences
and the ability to — Senior Fellow, 2007, and emerita Senior Fellow, 2019, Center
for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
communicate it — Professor of political science by courtesy, School of Humanities
and Sciences, Stanford University, since 2007
flawlessly and — At Wesleyan University: professor of government, 1987–2007;
chair, department of government, 1985–86, 1994–95, 1996–97;
effectively. She is director of international studies, 1993–94
— Wesleyan University Award for Teaching Excellence, 1995
a star!” — International Studies Association Distinguished Scholar Award,
2016
— Corresponding fellow, British Academy
CARL SCANDELLA, — ABA, political science, 1967, Newcomb College of
P H D ’ 71, A L O N G T H E Tulane University
M E K O N G , 2 0 17
S T A N F O R D T R A V E L / S T U D Y
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THE VALLEY OF DADES
Atlantic
Salé Volubilis
Ocean Rabat Fes
Bou IFRANE
Regreg NATIONAL
River PARK
MOROCCO
Midelt
MOROCCO
Ziz
Valle
Marrakech Todgha
Essaouira Aghmat Gorge Arfo
MT. TOUBKAL Sijilmassa
NATIONAL PARK Erg
Aït Benhaddou Ouarzazate Chebb
Itinerary covered souks and its quarters
where all types of crafts are
still fashioned by hand (and
Enjoy a tea break in a local
home and a Berber lunch at
the award-winning Kasbah du
foot!). Stop at the Ben Youssef Toubkal ecolodge. Returning
F R I DAY & S AT U R DAY,
Medersa, the largest of the to Marrakech, attend a private
M A R C H 13 & 14
theological schools initially set dinner at the home of the
U.S. / MARRAKECH,
up in the 14th century by the president of the Marrakech
MOROCCO
Marinid Dynasty. After lunch in Art Biennale, set amid the
Depart the U.S. on overnight the medina, enjoy the afternoon palm groves outside the city.
flights to Marrakech, arriving at leisure before a cocktail HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L,D)
on Saturday and transferring reception at the famed Hotel
to our hotel. This evening enjoy La Mamounia. HOTEL LA MAISON T H U R S DAY, M A R C H 19
a welcome cocktail reception ARABE (B,L) MARRAKECH /
and dinner of local specialties in AGHMAT /
the heart of the old city. HOTEL LA T U ES DAY, M A R C H 17 OUARZAZATE
MAISON ARABE (3/14: D)
MARRAKECH / Head south to the archaeologi-
ESSAOUIRA cal site of Aghmat, the first
S U N DAY, M A R C H 15
Drive to the coastal city of capital of the 11th-century
MARRAKECH
Essaouira, noted for its lovely Berber Almoravid Dynasty that
Start the day with a visit to blue-and-white architecture founded Marrakech. After a light
the 12th-century Koutoubia displaying both Moroccan and lunch, cross the spectacular
Mosque—a reference of world Portuguese influences, 18th- Tizi n’Tichka pass to Aït Benha-
Islamic architecture—and the century ramparts, colorfully ddou, an assembly of multi-
late-19th-century Bahia Palace painted fishing boats, and for storied granaries often used
of vizier Ba Ahmed, an example being the setting for much of as background for films (e.g.,
of Moorish-Andalusian art. Also Orson Welles’ Othello. On the Gladiator). Next, visit the inter-
visit the nearby private Tiskiwin way, look for the area’s infa- national film center of Ouarza-
Museum of fine rural Moroccan mous goats climbing up argan zate, whose surroundings have
and sub-Saharan crafts, and trees. Dine independently this been used in dozens of films,
the Saadian Toombs, a last evening back in Marrakech. including Lawrence of Arabia.
window into the splendor of HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L) LE BERBÈRE PALACE (B,L,D)
early-17th-century Moroccan
interior art. After lunch in the W E D N ES DAY, M A R C H 18 F R I DAY, M A R C H 20
new city, stroll through its MARRAKECH / OUARZAZATE /
garden of French orientalist MT. TOUBKAL BOUMALNE DADES
Jacques Majorelle and visit its NATIONAL PARK Today, follow the Kasbah Trail
new Museum of Berber Culture. Take a mule ride through with its fortified residences
HOTEL LA MAISON ARABE (B,L,D)
walnut-shaded terraced fields made of adobe. Drive up the
at the base of 14,000-foot-high Dades Valley, considered
M O N DAY, M A R C H 16
Mount Toubkal, North Africa’s southern Morocco’s most
MARRAKECH
highest peak, to observe the picturesque, with its variety of
Explore Marrakech’s vast reed- ways of Berber tribesmen. orchards and odd rock forma-
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MAJORELLE GARDENS, MARRAKECH
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oud
bi
tions. Take an excursion to the spiritual capital of Fes. W E D N ES DAY, M A R C H 25
the dramatic Todgha Gorge, RIAD FES (B,L,D) FES / RABAT
Morocco’s “Grand Canyon,” Drive to the capital city of
before settling in for the night M O N DAY, M A R C H 23 Morocco, Rabat, designated in
in Arfoud. HOTEL KASBAH XALUCA FES 2013 as a World Heritage site.
(B,L,D) Walk the narrow alleys of Enjoy a seafood lunch by the
Fes, considered the last true crashing waves of the Atlantic, a
S AT U R DAY, M A R C H 21 example of a typical medieval leisurely walk through the white-
BOUMALNE DADES / Arab town with its bustling washed Oudaïa Kasbah and
ERG CHEBBI bazaars, colorful tanners’ the Chellah fortress, and an af-
Head south to the Tafilalet quarters and fragrant spice ternoon stop at the Mausoleum
Oasis—Morocco’s largest—and market. Visit the restored of Mohamed V, considered by
visit the ruins of former caravan Attarine Medersa; the many to be modern Morocco’s
hub Sijilmassa. After lunch in mausoleum of city founder “father.” VILLA MANDARINE (B,L)
Arfoud, board 4WD vehicles Idriss II; the 17th-century
and head into the Sahara’s Nejjarine caravanserai, now an T H U R S DAY, M A R C H 26
Erg Chebbi, one of Morocco’s exquisite museum of wood arts; RABAT / SALÉ
great sand dune areas, rising the 700-year-old Bou Inania Cross the Bou Regreg River
600 feet above the desert floor. Medersa; the famed Blue Gate; for a morning tour of Salé, a
Spend the night in a desert and pottery and zellige mosaic traditional residential town
camp, ride a camel or clamber tile workshops. RIAD FES (B,L) with a restored 14th-century
up the dunes to witness sunset medersa, a gem overlooked by
over the Sahara, followed by T U ES DAY, M A R C H 24 many tourists. Enjoy lunch and
dinner and a bonfire at our FES / VOLUBILIS / a lecture on post-Arab Spring
overnight camp. GOLD SAND MEKNÈS developments at the Center
CAMP (B,L,D) Venture west to Volubilis, for Cross-Cultural Learning
Rome’s commercial hub for situated inside Rabat’s me-
S U N DAY, M A R C H 2 2 the region until the 3rd century, dina. Visit the new Museum of
ERG CHEBBI / MIDELT renowned for its numerous Modern and Contemporary Art,
/ IFRANE NATIONAL mosaics still in situ. Then travel a magnificent structure of neo-
PARK / FES south to former imperial city Moorish architecture, followed
Follow the palm-filled Ziz Valley Meknès and its astounding by a farewell cocktail reception
across the stark, multihued granary, a World Heritage site and Moroccan dinner. VILLA
expanses of the Eastern High built in the late 17th century by MANDARINE (B,L,D)
Atlas range to the Berber en- Sultan Moulay Ismaïl to feed
clave of Midelt for lunch. Take a the city’s population and his F R I DAY, M A R C H 27
detour into Ifrane National Park, 12,000(!) horses. Tour the cave RABAT OR CASA-
the last forest of giant Atlas ce- at Domaine de la Zouina, the BLANCA / U.S.
dars, and try to spot a band of Kingdom’s prime wine pro- Transfer to the Rabat or
indigenous Barbary macaques ducer, and enjoy a tasting of its Casablanca airport for flights
before arriving this evening in finest crûs before returning to home. (B)
Fes. RIAD FES (B,L,D)
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