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Mandela neither demanded nor received an entirely unconditional devotion; in power he expected his compatriots to behave as assertive citizens not genuflecting disciples

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Nelcya Delanoe

Nelcya Delanoe is a professor of history at the University of Paris (Nanterre), and the author of Poussieres d’empires (Paris, PUF editions/Casablanca, Tarik editions, 2002).

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Moroccans in Spain were victims of the Madrid bombs and, it seems, also perpetrators. How will the relationship between the two states, equally ambiguous, be affected?

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Morocco’s complex colonial and post-colonial history, and its fusion of regal and religious authority, cast a particular light on current debates about religion and secularism in the Islamic world. Here, a French writer visits her homeland after a year’s absence and finds a different space of freedom under the stars.

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