Now, it has been nearly 3 weeks and some 80,000 migrants crossed illegally into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, touching off one of Europe's worst migration crises in years. Most have since departed, but as DW's Jan-Philipp Schulz reports, many young migrants who stayed behind are facing a host of dangers.
Moroccan border guards have arrested hundreds of migrants as they tried to cross into the Spanish territory of Ceuta in northern Africa. They were intercepted as they climbed a hill just a few kilometers from the border. According to local media, 294
And so for people to be able to reproduce their own food, young Lebanese people, to reproduce their own food the way their mother cooked it, Moroccan is another great cuisine that can be elevated, Turkish and Lebanese, but Syrian as well.
What country are you from? Morocco. So he's from Morocco. Terrific. Welcome. Big trip.
You have 30 minutes to make your food and eat it and all of that stuff. Moroccans, we get everything backwards.
to open up French restaurants or whatever, they were like, well, going to have Shabbat dinner at my grandparents' means Polish, Moroccan, Yemenite, and Romanian. It's all right here.
They brought it back to their communities who held their own work sessions. Morocco is also the biggest Peace Corps site in the Middle East, and that information has now been shared with sites across the Middle East. I also got a lot out of it.
Crown Prince and asking if I could see him and so he said yes so I flew to uh to where he was at the time he was in Morocco um and so on the on the 43rd birthday plus one day I said I you know I feel like I've got an extra lease on life because you know out of respect for my father uh I'd like to to to put together a book and and start talking
Senegal Pakistan Ivory Coast zambia Morocco Ethiopia Nigeria and Syria so these countries come from all over some in Eastern Europe some of the Middle East some in sub-saharan Africa what ties them together is on average according to the corruption perception surveys these are very high corruption
I had a very international cross-section of friends and family who had also experienced different flavors and wanted to eat Mexican one day and Chinese the next and Moroccan the third. And, of course, I'm Indian so there's a lot of Indian food in there as well.
And North Africa changes from where the Ottomans were and where they were not. So Morocco is where the Ottomans were not. And Moroccan cuisine is quite distinct from Algerian or Tunisian.
So Morocco is where the Ottomans were not. And Moroccan cuisine is quite distinct from Algerian or Tunisian. And that Moroccan cuisine is closer to Iranian.
I was going to say, that's a new script, is Secret Moroccan. Secret Moroccan. Can you find the Moroccan? It's like a new Where's Waldo?
Because initially, when you start thinking about food and asking why is it made this way rather than just let's just make food that tastes good. In Morocco, the best chefs are those who can make you taste food, and it takes you back in time to when you were a little kid, or you were growing up with your grandma, and you can say, oh, it tastes exactly like that person used to make it.
That aspect of discovery is really huge in America, especially on the coasts, California and New York. In Morocco, they don't care about that. What they care about, make me something that is going to take me back in time.
Basically, after 12 years of doing this, he had gotten a bit tired. by Morocco that drove most of these volumes underground, and explaining the role played by descendants of Timbuktu's collectors, who had protected
have been influenced recently by the Vietnamese obviously the north we have the Moroccans who are our neighbors in a sense after the Sahara Desert so their influence is also very strong even though we believe that we influenc them and we T them how to do the cuscus and and you see our our cuscus recipe is
Israeli public life and you write about that as well. Can you tell us what that story is? So Eisenhot is uh Moroccan. Every prime minister since Benorian has been Ashkanazi. In other words, the descendant of Eastern
anymore. I'm afraid to be raped, too. Several underage Moroccan girls we spoke to say they have either been harassed themselves or have heard about cases of sexual assault since they arrived. They say the worst part is that there is
I have this feeling and specially for the countries that have um long time of moratorium like Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria. Morocco with 30 years of moratorium. They are waiting for what?
And it's really fun to make. And there's a Moroccan pastilla, which is a Moroccan pigeon pie. And in my version, you make it with chicken.
And Moroccan cuisine is quite distinct from Algerian or Tunisian. And that Moroccan cuisine is closer to Iranian. And you have the Middle East, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan even.
I think we should go with the Queen of Morocco. Why Queen of Morocco? Just based on the audience's response and the sight lines from that angle over there.
And the last? Whoa. The Queen of Morocco for all four queens. And you shuffled the cards yourself.
Here he is in Morocco in his kind of blue moment there.
It's always nice to come here and make the drive and see the beautiful campus and the beautiful people here. How many Moroccan people are in here? None. So this is so awesome because I can say whatever the fuck I want to say, and nobody is going to hold me accountable.
And as Marty can attest to it, sometimes when we cook together, really, the line is so blurry as to what's really Moroccan and what's not Moroccan. But once we find that spot, that sweet spot, where the two cultures or the two cuisines merge harmoniously, then it becomes
It will be here at the bottom. The one thing in Morocco that we do, and I've always question this, is when you cook couscous in Morocco, it's not about the meat or the vegetables. So people are so poor in Morocco that the main thing on the plate is never the meat.
You have 30 minutes to make your food and eat it and all of that stuff. But in Morocco, we have a lot of time, and it takes three hours to extract the flavor.
You have 30 minutes to make your food and eat it and all of that stuff. This is the traditional Moroccan steamer.
You have 30 minutes to make your food and eat it and all of that stuff. Growing up in Morocco, I came from Marrakesh, where we have a lot of citrus.
It's opening in Morocco.
So this is Morocco.
They come from Morocco.
-I'm Moroccan in heritage.
So we're in Morocco and I decided to do skinning the goat hair off the goat skin.
You guys filmed in Morocco, so it wasn't quite Afghanistan, but what did you see in that culture that maybe we should be bringing back here to the Western world?
And that's what Morocco was like.
That's that new Moroccan, I just wish it was more Moroccan, but I'll write them a Yelp review, don't worry.
We went to Morocco and I thought well, I can bring back this comic.
Whereas in Morocco, because for them, they speak fluent French, but they don't speak it as a mother tongue.
And the one thing I remember about Morocco is just the smell of mint.
I've been told is that Morocco has close relations with Israel and the Zionists wanted this as a way of destabilizing
European Jews. when he goes to a town that has a lot of uh Moroccan uh uh Jews, people who come came from Morocco or from other uh Muslim states um Iraq, uh Syria, uh these are Jews who
Just yesterday, another 12-year-old girl came in. She said some other migrants from Morocco had been touching her inappropriately. She arrived extremely frightened and crying.
very, let's say, wrong way or at least a very short changed way portrayed in social media in Morocco. And I think all of this took its own dynamic a little bit. That doesn't mean of course that there are no political interests behind it, but I
more security personnel is present, but of course it's also obvious that the Spanish government is still very dependent on the active support on the Moroccan side. So this is the situation at the border that has been relatively calm in the past
origin you know a rose from Morocco does not smell the sale as a rose from Bulgaria and you can multiply the examples so there's a lot uh if you follow the history and and the geography of
We're going to go to Morocco.
So my next book was actually not even my idea. It was a publisher's idea on Moroccan street food. But I like writing about street food.