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A Life of Travel
Reflection, Human Stories & beyond.

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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Morocco Diversity is what makes the Moroccan culture attractive to explore.
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Moroccco's Diversity

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

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What are dreams and their images
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Images in Dreams

Where do the richly detailed images we see in dreams come from? And where do the reflections that appear in mirrors actually exist?

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Why Do We Burst into Hysterical Laughter at Funerals and During Tragedies?
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Hesterical Laughter in Tragedies

This phenomenon is not limited to funerals. Clinical observations have documented cases in which people suddenly laugh during moments of extreme danger, catastrophe, or even when confronted with the prospect of death.

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The Sufi philosopher Ibn Sab'in developed a unique answer to this question through his theory of the Absolute Unity of Being.
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The Absolute Unity of Being

Ibn Sab'in argues that ordinary people believe in multiplicity because they are deceived by the senses and by the outward forms of material things. Mystics, on the other hand, perceive the deeper truth that existence is one, indivisible reality.

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discovering Fez is exploring Moroccan culture at best
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Fez, The city of Islam

If one day a young reader who has never walked through the alleys of Fez learns dignity from my father, hospitality from my mother, wisdom from my grandmother, or kindness from one of those forgotten neighbors, then something extraordinary will have happened.

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