Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film, Morocco, was and is a clear reflection of the appeal to Western audiences of ersatz exoticism, a curiosity about the heightened state-of-being allegedly found in the tropics. This had been a Hollywood staple throughout the silent era, as witnessed...

Highlights and Key Issues * Economic reforms and liberalisation over the past ten years have reduced dependence upon agriculture and boosted industry and services, attracting FDI and strengthening government finances and the balance of payments. These gains have brought the prospect of an...

Morocco announced it was recalling its ambassador from Spain in response to a planned visit to the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla by Spain's king and queen. A look at the history behind the dispute:WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? Spain's royal palace announced King Juan...

Morocco will present an autonomy plan for Western Sahara to the United Nations next month in hopes of ending a three-decade conflict that has stranded 160,000 refugees in the Sahara, a top Moroccan official said Friday.The plan would give the disputed region a parliament, a...

[In Morocco] like all motion pictures of the front rank, the material is that of the screen alone, the narrative thread an exceedingly simple one. It amounts to the way it is embroidered. And here the result is [a cinematic pattern that is] brilliant, profuse, subtle, and at almost every turn inventive. Morocco sets its sound in the background. Its speech is purely that of pictures, except where the pictures can be told more effectively by sound. (pp. 4-5)