A Taste of Tangier by Arjun Padalkar (A’ 21)

Our day began with a flurry of interviews and the expectation of a packed schedule. Today was our last day in Rabat, and we spent it rushing from interviews to the hotel and finally to Tangier or Fes. I woke up early and read a few articles one of my interviewees recommended, while some members of our group conducted morning interviews.

Our day started off with a beautiful Moroccan breakfast on our hotel’s rooftop with fresh orange juice, omelettes, coupled with a soft Mediterranean breeze.  As the new week begins tomorrow, Sunday was a day of working on our research topics for interviews scheduled for the week in Rabat, Tangiers, and Fes.

All our days (and nights) of preparation, both in terms of research and logistics, brought us to this very day. We were finally leaving for Morocco, to learn more about the country through our rich and diverse research topics.

On November 10th, Tufts ALLIES, a program of the Institute for Global Leadership, kicked off its fifth annual Civil Military Relations Conference (CMRC) on “Security, Society, and the New Climate Regime.” This conference centered the importance of climate change for national security policy professionals, in both military and civilian fields.