The Moroccan people have a reputation as being friendly and caring. Our host for IBM CSC Morocco9, Fouzia Lamnasfi from MASciR (Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation & Research) is a wonderful example. She has been very supportive and helpful during our stay and last night she took the four of us (Jessica O’Gorman, (Canada), Kazutaka Nakao (Japan), Venkatraman Umakanth (India), Larry Clevenger (USA)) to the medina district and showed us the shops where the locals go to. Fouzia (head scarf in the pictures below) was born in Rabat and actually grew up in the medina. Our first stop was the best candy shop. As the pictures show below, the shop was about five feet wide. They make the candy underneath the shop and it is some of the best candy I have ever tasted. We moved on to leather and then key chains! The key chain vendor made them while we waited and he personalized each one. We would have never found these places without Fouzia! When you visit Rabat, be sure to look for these shops in the medina! @ibmcsc @ibmaotalbany #ibmcsc #cscmorocco9
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