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...north there are sweeping coastal plains and fertile valleys; in the south, the snow-capped Atlas Mountains soar 14,000 ft. above arid desert. Its cities range from modern Casablanca (pop. 700,000) with its bustling port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling desert town of Marrakech (pop. 215,000) where ragged Berbers bring their camels to market, and snake charmers pitch their brown tents in the city square...
...time when a dissident leader of the all-conquering Arabs declared his independence of faraway Baghdad in the 8th century. For centuries, rulers alternated between Arab dynasties and the indigenous Berbers. The empire waxed and waned but was never conquered. While medieval Europe fought and languished, the university of Fez gathered scholars from all over the known world. The Moorish empire reached into Spain, building aqueducts, huge irrigation systems, and the great Alhambra at Granada. The present Sultan is of a dynasty founded in 1660, claims direct descent from the Prophet's only daughter, Fatima. This gives him baraka...
Mohammed was slower in educating himself in his responsibilities to his country. Closely watched by the French, he had little part in Morocco's first stirrings towards independence. Not until a delegation of Fez educators came to him in 1940 to complain that the French would not allow them to organize a school for girls did he realize that nonroyal Moslem girls did not go to school, promptly promised, "I will make my daughter Aisha the missionary of feminine emancipation." During the wartime Casablanca Conference, President Franklin Roosevelt invited him to dine. It was the first time Morocco...
Illiteracy and prejudice still maintain a fearsome gulf between Moslem Morocco (see FOREIGN NEWS) and the Christian West. But miles south of the ancient Moslem holy city of Fez, high in the oak-thicketed Atlas Mountains, a band of black-robed Roman Catholic monks last week went quietly about their accustomed work: building a retreat where Moroccans and Europeans can meet, trade social and political theories, and learn each other's foreign ways. Their oasis of understanding is Morocco's only Christian monastery, the Benedictine Priory of Christ le Roi at Tioumliline...
...five-week tour of Britain's territories in East Africa, brisk but smiling Princess Margaret was greeted on Mauritius by a fez-topped honor guard, soldiers of the Tanganyika battalion of the King's African Rifles. Later, she moved on to the spice island of Zanzibar. Censorship was instituted to tone down earthy invitations, mostly in Swahili but some in English, that are all the rage with Zanzibar's native girls, who now wear various amorous slogans written on their bright robes. By the time she drove observantly around the island, the most suggestive such bids...