Testimonials

Islamic Finance, a European view

Knowledge is the only thing that no one can strip you of, no matter what, but how you use it depends solely on you. After I packed my bags, but not my calculator, for what I thought was another summer...

Daan’s ways of connecting with locals!

One of the things I was looking forward to before coming here was the Moroccan spirit of hospitability, and I can say that I have not been disappointed. Besides the welcoming love and care from my hos...

Settling into Moroccan life

Melle had been to Marrakech before studying at NIMAR. This week he writes about his expectations and the ways Rabat surprised him. What to pack?At first glance, it seemed like a huge thing: studying a...

Why Morocco and why NIMAR? Some answers from students

‘Getting out of your comfort zone in a comfortable way’When asking the new students how they first heard about the NIMAR, Emma notes that this was during her second year of the Bachelor cultural anthr...

Linda writes about her roots and destinations

Very International StudentAs a third-year student of International Studies, and being multicultural myself, I am highly interested in learning and studying different cultures and languages.My desire o...

A semester in Rabat

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Berber week March 2019

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Exploring people and tea glasses in a systematic way

This week was the first time we practiced ethnographic research, the main method we will use when we do our own field projects. It is a fancy term for studying people. This week we had to practice obs...

“Clothes make the (wo)man”

Since I arrived in Morocco, there is one thing I noticed directly! Of course, before I got to Morocco people already told me some stuff about it, but I never experienced it in real life. Luckily, I ha...