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Cities such as Casablanca, Marrakech, and Tangier were only names that were occasionally visited, mentioned in the news, and frequently in the movies. Only then, any lasting association with these cities was in the context of a film setting such as Casablanca, or as part of the storyline in some book that frequently required a story of conspiracy and foreign intrigue. As with most Americans, Morocco was a distant, remote, and vague area of the world (4). Many people who have never visited Morocco or who come to Morocco with the idealized version of what Casablanca was like, according to the 1943 movie by the same name, may be disappointed. Nevertheless, the reality is Casablanca at that time, as the portrayal in the film was merely a Hollywood construct and had very little to do with history or reality. There is a need for clarification of facts vs. fiction (4).