One weekend in the summer of 2018, Miller Greene and some friends decided to climb Toubkal, the highest mountain in Morocco and all of North Africa. Greene finished his studies at Ole Miss in May and earned a Boren Scholarship to study abroad in Morocco through the Arabic language flagship program. How a kid from Columbus, who had scarcely ever been out of Mississippi, became interested in learning Arabic, is a question Greene fields regularly. He will study Arabic language at a center for American students. Greene remembered having some anxiety in 2018 when he first went to Morocco, especially in how he would deal with cultural differences.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 09, 2021 05:37 UTC