Maryam montague biography

This article originally appeared in the April 2012 issue of ELLE DECOR.

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For the first time in her life, not long after she had been transferred from Namibia to Rabat, Morocco, the writer and human rights specialist Maryam Montague began to pine seriously for a home.

She and her architect husband, Chris Redecke, both Americans, had recently had their second child; Morocco was at least the tenth country in which Montague had lived. "We were at a crossroads moment," Montague recalls.

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"I was thinking, How much longer can we go on like this, moving from place to place?" At the same time, she and Redecke had fallen for Morocco: the culture, the food, and the weather. They began to "hatch a plan," as she puts it, to buy a home in the more international Marrakech.