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Article: Morocco Under King Hassan. (Book in Brief).
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- The Middle East
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- January 1, 2002
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MOROCCO UNDER KING HASSAN
By Stephen O Hughes published by Ithaca Press
ISBN 0 86372 285 7 price 25.00 [pounds sterling] hardback
Due to strict press laws, no Moroccan has ever published a dispassionate account of the country and its monarchy. Most books on the subject tend to fall into one of two categories -- those that are hymns of praise for the Moroccan monarchy, and those who argue that it is one of the most despotic and reactionary regimes in the world. Morocco under King Hassan, written by a foreign correspondent resident in Morocco since 1952, is an impartial chronicle of all the major events in the North African kingdom during this period. It ...