Hamid Mernissi is a Moroccan writer, traveler, and observer of life who was born and raised in the ancient Medina of Fez. His work grows from a lifetime of wandering, through cities, deserts, cultures, and ideas, always searching for the quiet wisdom hidden in everyday experiences. Trained as much by the streets of his childhood as by books and journeys across the world, Hamid writes about memory, culture, dignity, travel, and the human spirit.
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The Consumer Has a Place in This Travelers are not responsible for fixing the economics of the travel industry. But travelers deserve to understand what they are buying.
The Andalusians who came to northern Morocco could not bring Granada, Seville, or the other cities they had left behind. But they could preserve fragments of that world in the places where they began again.
It may be the smell of bread your mother baked, the tree you climbed as a child, a schoolyard, a song, a father's expression, an old neighbor, a family table around which people once gathered.
A century ago, an early traveler could open a Guide Bleu, discover the Imperial Cities, and set out toward Marrakech, Rabat, Meknes, and Fez. Today, someone can open a telephone thousands of kilometres away and book essentially the same route in minutes.
Every country contains differences of ethnicity, language, religion, region, tribe, culture, class, or historical memory. Travel places us directly before these differences. A responsible traveler does not arrive merely to photograph buildings or collect destinations. Travel offers an opportunity
Overland journeys, hiking, trekking in the Atlas Mountains, Sahara expeditions, camping, discovery, and active travel naturally became Sarah Tours' specialties.
After more than a month of effort, the expedition finally reached the Sebou Bridge near Fez on 29 January 1912, only a short walk from the city itself.