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   <title>Peace Corps Morocco and the Investment in Artisan’s Cooperatives </title>
   <author>Regina Rector</author>
   <email>zd29330@harpercollege.edu</email>
   <description>During my recent travels to Morocco, I had the privilege to visit a women’s weaving cooperative that was started by local Moroccans with the help of a former Peace Corps volunteer.  Several of my fellow faculty members and I were given a lesson in pile rug weaving. </description>
   <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 11:33:24 -08:00</pubDate>
   <tags>worlding</tags>
   <externaltags>field seminar, mena, morocco, peace corps, fez, rug weaving, artisan, cooperative, africa, north africa</externaltags>
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            alt="Wall of colorful yarn "/>
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