Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.