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Morocco's Land

This turbanned figure on the outside of 265-267 Canongate, Edinburgh, recalls the career of a 17th-century citizen who made his (or her) fortune in service to the Sultan of Morocco. Source.

Femme de la région de Taza - Zaïan, 1939

Photo by Jean Besancenot. Source. Visit La Maison de la Photographie website for more Moroccan photography.

Youssef ben Hassan, 1925

Youssef, the one giving the camera a hard look, was Sultan of Morocco from 1912 to 1927. He had to put up with the French, the ones with the medals, who had gained control of the country in the 1912 Treaty of Fez. His reign corresponded almost exactly with that of Japan's Taisho Emperor, but it's doubtful they ever met. Source.

Al Boraq

Morocco is building a high-speed rail network, with the initial Casablanca-Tangier route in service now. Watch it go. Source.

The Last Moroccan Lion, 1925

The last photograph of a lion in the wild in Morocco was taken from an aeroplane in 1925. In fact the entire Wikipedia article on the Barbary lion is striking in that all the photos are in black and white. The lions made it into the 20th Century, but not the part with colour photography.

Henri Matisse, "Marocain, de trois-quarts"

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