I have known so many types of Moroccan / American families over the years. All are curious to me, including my own.
Married for over twenty years to my Moroccan “prince,” I have a fourteen year old daughter, and eleven year old son.  In the “beginning” of us, we agreed we believed in the same “God” and we seemed beyond much of our cultural holdings. It was just intrinsic between us that he had a religious background, and so did I.  That foundational understanding and respect remains solid today. Having said that, when the children arrived, it started to get interesting.

Maybe one of the lesser covered conflicts of the past fifty years, the Moroccan campaign of the mid to late 1970s, proved to be one of the most important events in the contemporary history of North Africa. It all started in 1974, when Spain withdrew from the Spanish Sahara in Morocco. After that event, both the Moroccan government and Mauretania agreed in principal, to the partition of the just vacated territory. In 1975, the Moroccan military took official control of all the Western Sahara territory. Unfortunately, not all the players involved in the Sahara region agreed with the plan and the Moroccan execution of the terms.