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Most Read This Week In Morocco

Books in this genre are set in or about Morocco.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Morocco"

In the Country of Others (In the country of others, #1)

Watch Us Dance (In the Country of Others, #2)

Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf

Night Train to Marrakech (Daughters of War #3)

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

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“ Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerstone of the Moslem world. It was too deep to be called hypocrisy; it was merely custom. They said one thing and they did something else. They affirmed their adherence to Islam in formulated phrases, but they behaved as though they believed, and actually did believe, something quite different. Still, the unchanging profession of faith was there, and to him it was this eternal contradiction which made ...more ”
― Paul Bowles, The Spider's House

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“ Cunninghame Graham, having sold his Highland demense and moved to London in 1900, was a regular visitor to Cromwell Place, and together they plotted their Fez adventure, for which they would enlist the help of Walter Harris, and enable Lavery to revive his Orientalist ambitions. The Sultan's harem, a fantasy that had fired the Wetern male imagination, required exorcism. When the voyeur finally got within plain sight of this forbidden world in the Sultan's palace at Fez, with a large canvas conce ...more ”
― Kenneth McConkey, Lavery on Location

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