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Four days later, police have no clues who the attacker was, but I have a pretty good idea what triggered the attack. On April 12, I was a guest on a local television show discussing the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Bosnian Muslims by Serbian troops led by General Ratko Mladic, who is still on the run from international justice. The TV debate centered on the April 10 verdict by a Serbian war-crimes court that sentenced four members of a paramilitary group known as the Scorpions for the execution of six Muslims from Srebrenica...
...miss the hammam) with social and environmental sensibilities. Spacious rooms come stocked with Berber robes and slippers, but if you need to clean your clothes, the staff - all of whom are employed from surrounding villages - helpfully show you the washbasin and iron. Visitors are encouraged to remember they are "guests of the local inhabitants." Indeed, the Kasbah's quiet, natural setting either makes it, as one visitor wrote in the guest book, "a great place to make babies" or, judging from a po-faced couple we overheard, a breathtaking spot in which to break...
From Imlil, any number of mule trails lead into the park's rugged inner regions. Some Berber families now offer half-board lodging for as little as $12 a night. But for those looking for a bit more pampering, the Kasbah recently opened a cozy three-guest-room lodge, the first of its kind in the park, where host Omar welcomes hikers with a hearty handshake and a basin of rose water. A simple refuge overlooking a traditional village of flat-topped mud and stone houses, it was a perfect overnight stop on a two-day hike into...
...peak baggers wanting to summit, overnight treks can be arranged up the Djebel Toubkal. On our final day we opted for an easier vista onto a vast mountain desert bowl, before returning to lunch at Samra, a candlelit guest douar (Berber dwelling) run by an energetic Swiss woman and a local female staff. The vegetable tagine and coriander-spiced eggplant was outstanding. Six hours later, I was back in Paris, my boots still spattered with mud, my hands smelling faintly of rose water...
...part of the “Conversations with Kirkland” discussion series and took place in the Kirkland Junior Common Room last night. Lazar said he wanted to engage students in a productive political conversation with a respected authority, and he described his guest as “one of the keenest political observers on the landscape.” “It’s a very interesting time in American politics,” Lazar said in a phone interview before the event. “[Alter] has a kind of credibility right...