Testimonials
Testimonials
A minor in Morocco: Serendipity
I’m Lina, a student of Health Policy & Management at Erasmus University and here to tell you about my experience at NIMAR,so far. How I went from Gouda cheese, hagelslag and pindakaas to msemn, ta...
The minor “Culture and Society in Morocco” in the time of Corona
Lara is a student of International Studies in Leiden. This autumn, she followed the minor “Culture and Society in Morocco”, in Leiden. She shares some of her experiences with us in this testimonial.Te...
Learning and using French As a Dutch Moroccan
Je m'appelle Jihane and I am a 23-year-old social work student from Amsterdam. My parents are Moroccan, and I was born and raised in the Netherlands. This year is my final year of studying at the Univ...
Fieldwork
The minor “Culture and Society in Morocco” at NIMAR contains a fieldwork period of approximately one month. During this period, we did our research on the meaning of the huge number of street cats in ...
Learning Darija: a rewarding struggle
Two months ago, I did not know any Arabic other than the well-known expressions inshallah (‘if God is willing) and yallah (‘let’s go’).In the weeks before the minor, I distinctly remember talking to m...
Sanne’s advice on spending your free time in Morocco
A re-encounter with NIMARBefore I went studying at NIMAR, I had been in Morocco one other time within my bachelor’s program of French language and culture. We went to Rabat and Casablanca for linguist...
Living in a host family in the medina of Rabat
On Friday September 6th I arrived at Rabat. Omar, one of the staff members of Nimar picked me up from the airport in Salé, and brought me to the host-family where I was supposed to stay for the first ...
Skoura through the eyes of Sara Ameziane Hassani
Taking a long ride to...It is 10 pm on a Sunday night as the two white minibuses open their doors and 30 rather tired and confused-looking students disembark. After more than 12 hours on the road we f...