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The best book about Fez and Morocco
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The Boy from Fez

It may be the smell of bread your mother baked, the tree you climbed as a child, a schoolyard, a song, a father's expression, an old neighbor, a family table around which people once gathered.

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Tourism in Morocco
Travel Tips
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History of travel in Morocco

A century ago, an early traveler could open a Guide Bleu, discover the Imperial Cities, and set out toward Marrakech, Rabat, Meknes, and Fez. Today, someone can open a telephone thousands of kilometres away and book essentially the same route in minutes.

· 16 min read 121
Morocco Diversity is what makes the Moroccan culture attractive to explore.
Anthropology
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Moroccco's Diversity

Every country contains differences of ethnicity, language, religion, region, tribe, culture, class, or historical memory. Travel places us directly before these differences. A responsible traveler does not arrive merely to photograph buildings or collect destinations. Travel offers an opportunity

· 9 min read 169
What are dreams and their images
Sufism
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Images in Dreams

Where do the richly detailed images we see in dreams come from? And where do the reflections that appear in mirrors actually exist?

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Why Do We Burst into Hysterical Laughter at Funerals and During Tragedies?
Anthropology
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Hesterical Laughter in Tragedies

This phenomenon is not limited to funerals. Clinical observations have documented cases in which people suddenly laugh during moments of extreme danger, catastrophe, or even when confronted with the prospect of death.

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The Sufi philosopher Ibn Sab'in developed a unique answer to this question through his theory of the Absolute Unity of Being.
Sufism
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The Absolute Unity of Being

Ibn Sab'in argues that ordinary people believe in multiplicity because they are deceived by the senses and by the outward forms of material things. Mystics, on the other hand, perceive the deeper truth that existence is one, indivisible reality.

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