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...first time a Spanish monarch had visited since 1927. Last Friday, Morocco's King Mohammed VI protested the royal visit by withdrawing his country's ambassador to Spain and on Monday, as thousands of flag-waving Ceutís turned out to cheer their monarchs, Moroccan Prime Minister Abbas el Fassi indignantly characterized the trip as a "provocation...
...things have been opening (with friends) Tagine, a Moroccan restaurant in Beverly Hills, where he sometimes helps out in the kitchen, and raising cash to direct a passion project about child soldiers in Uganda. "I've been all over town for that," he says. "Nobody wants to be the one that says no to the child-soldier movie. Everyone tells me, 'If you put a Hollywood actor in it,' but it's not that kind of a movie." Last year during Oscar-campaign season, Gosling was in Uganda researching the film instead of shaking hands at cocktail parties...
...Senegal, many of whom - like Cheihk Lo, Baaba Maal and the peerless N'Dour - have become staples for any self-respecting world music fan in the West. But Kane is different. Less traditional but not quite "Western," he mixes soul and Malian blues with rock tunes on a Moroccan three-stringed guitar known as the guimbri. One London-based music critic described Kane's eclectic sound as "evocative of a kind of pan-Saharan Velvet Underground...
...Brotherhood movement. Long ago, the PJD leadership decided that the Algerian Islamists got it all wrong when they chose an outright confrontation with the army. Instead, they admire the wise persistence and incrementalism of Turkey's Islamists, and they have demonstrated as much by their own integration into mainstream Moroccan politics. In the 2002 and 2003 parliamentary and municipal elections, for example, they accepted, albeit grudgingly, the regime's diktat to limit the number of districts they contested. They managed to elect 42 representatives to the parliament and to capture four municipalities in the local elections. In both instances, some...
...monarchy is famous for co-opting its political opponents by allowing them to enjoy the trappings of power without real clout. Being in opposition allows the PJD to build its base without appearing to be doing the monarchy's bidding. It may be true that the Moroccan regime has postponed constitutional reform that would signal clear commitment to democratization. Nonetheless, its strategy of accommodating, rather than attacking, political Islam should be closely followed throughout the Middle East and the West...