Fes

I mean, that's quite a surprise in Morocco.

But they recently opened, with a lot of fanfare, a Jewish heritage museum in Fez.

which is arguably not only from a Jewish point of view, but from many points of view, the most interesting place in Morocco.

It has the oldest university in the world that dates back to like the 19th, the ninth century, ninth century, ninth century, and was founded by a woman.

So unusual in many ways.

And Fez is just a lovely, fascinating city with a lot of Jewish history.

And now there's a museum and Moroccan government officials are all making speeches.

First of all, The Moroccan king has always been a great protector of Jews for several generations.

One of them, Al-Qarawiyyin, right, which is maybe one of your words that you're writing.

Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, in Fez, is the world's oldest degree university.

It was founded by a sister, a woman, Fatima Al-Fihri.

She was the one who founded this university.

I had the opportunity, alhamdulillah, to travel to Fez and I went up to Qarawiyyin.

But at that time they were not allowing the public to go in.

They were doing repairs.

It's there in Fez.

Maimon himself was incredible.

And I'm holding in my hand over here a letter that he wrote to the Jews of Fez in Morocco and the surrounding area.

This is during the Al-Mohad persecution where there was a lot of Jews who were forced to convert to Islam.

It was very hard for them.

They were like nomadic, a nomadic family, because everywhere they would go, the prosecution got so intense, and they didn't want to swear their names to Allah.

So they wanted to remain Jewish, outwardly and inwardly.

So they went from place to place, and they ended up living in Fez, Morocco, for many years.

The prosecution was active in Fez for those years, but not as strong.

I want you to meet Siham, my guest for today.

She was born and raised in Fez, which is a 1200-year-old city in Morocco.

It's the cultural heart of Morocco.

The Medina is her home.

Siham does not work for the tourist board.

She's an advocate for Morocco's culinary heritage, the food beyond couscous and tagine, which everyone seems to know.

From pastia in Fez, to royal lamb and tangia buried in ashes in Marrakech, to madfuna in the Sahara, to the best tagine in the High Atlas Mountains, Siham speaks

Arabic, French, English,

So successful were the French in these negotiations that Spain was satisfied with a very much smaller sphere of influence than France was prepared to grant.

The original proposition included not only the rich Khroub plains north of the Sebu River, but even Fez itself.

It was a disappointment to the Spanish government to learn, after their agreement with France was signed, that they might have included in their sphere of influence these valuable assets.

France and Spain having come to terms, the Spanish government gave its formal adherence to the Anglo-French Agreement on October the third, nineteen oh four.

His camp was pillaged, and he returned to the coast a fugitive.

There he abdicated in favor of his brother.

Mulai Hafid was proclaimed at Fez and Tangier, and all Morocco recognized him.

He reigned for four years, 1908 to 1912, and though at first he showed signs of a desire to restore the fortune of his country, it was too late.

And one of these great scholars of balance who gave some of the clearest definitions of how to go forward [clears throat] was Sidi Ahmed ibn Ahmed ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Burunisi al-Fasi, who was known as Sidi Ahmed Zarruq.

Sidi Ahmed Zarruq was born in fourteen twenty-six of the Common Era, and he was born in Fes, which is in Morocco.

He was born on a Thursday, and his mother died on Saturday.

And then the next week, on Tuesday, his father died.