I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
I was born in Fez Morocco in 1972. My primary,secondary and collegiate studies were achieved in the same city. I earned my Doctorate of Arts and a Masters degree in linguistics from the University of INALCO Paris, France in 2000. Since then, teaching has been part of my life. During my teaching career Ive had the opportunity to work with different age groups and different nationalities. My goals as a teacher are to personalize my elaborate teaching methods and communicate my passion for languages and its culture in a very professional way at the college level. I believe that "Language is power." I also worked for the French Embassy in Morocco as a Linguist Coordinator to overcome the "Arabisation" issues that college students faced in studying all aspects of science.