Envisioning Spain's Border

We had returned to our home stay in Tetouan to find sobering images of Libyans standing vigil in Tripoli plastered across Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s leading English-speaking news network. While waiting for the U.N. delegates to deliberate, one of us began to flip through the channels in search of more information. Instead, we were [...]

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Spain’s regional diversity would not be complete without the linguistic differences. The most striking linguistic difference we came across in Spain was that between Spanish/Castilian and Catalan spoken in Barcelona and Girona. This difference reflects cultural and political divergence among regions. With linguistic identification comes regional solidarity, and in some cases in Catalonia, defiance of [...]

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Professor Woods’s trip to Casa Arabe was one of the highlights of my entire trip. Casa Arabe, an Arab cultural center in Madrid, was much more progressive than traditional cultural centers in the United States. It completely challenged my preconceived beliefs of the role that cultural centers should serve in the community. The [...]

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On our trip through Spain and Morocco many students often sought out locations in various cities that could be seen as less touristy. However, as a temporary visitor, an “outsider,” it was impossible for any of us to gain access to an “authentic” experience. Since we couldn’t live an “authentic” experience, many [...]

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Tangier, Morocco. Approximately 18:30 Spanish time. Medina:
Immediately upon entering the medina (literally meaning town, medinas are a section of a Moroccan city in which goods are sold. Specific characteristics include narrow, winding streets, booths on either side of the path, and relentless salesmen) we were swarmed by men trying to sell us this things.  [...]

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As a huge politics nerd with a special interest in socialism and communism, I couldn’t help but get distracted by this poster I saw plastered all over Granada, Spain. Translated, the sign reads: “Doubly exploited, doubly revolutionary because we fight for our rights as workers, because we fight against sexual exploitation, because in unity there [...]

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