In May 2009, Cornell students traveled to Morocco with religion professor Steven Sacks and French professor Devan Baty for the course "Islam and Post-coloniality in Contemporary Morocco." Students studied the general tenets of Islam, its particular manifestations and practices in Morocco, and the post-colonial relationship between Morocco and France.
The course included visits to Tangiers, Casablanca, Fes, Meknes, Rabat, and Marrakech. Highlights included meetings with Nigerian migrants in Tangiers, tours of the walled Medina of Fes, lectures at Al-Karaouine University in Fes, a visit to a Berber village in the High Atlas Mountains, and camping out under the stars in the Sahara desert.
