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Sunny, Modern, Morocco; Don't look now, but a bit of Europe has come to the Maghreb. What next--full-fledged EU membership?
Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat
Leila Ahlaloum, 25, is the very image of a modern European career woman. She works as a manager in a chic hotel, goes clubbing most weekends and, like many singletons, is on the prowl for Mr. Right. With her designer clothes and hip sunglasses, you'd never suspect she's a mainstream Muslim in an Islamic North African country. But as much as Leila represents a Western archetype, she's also the personification of modern Morocco. "Of course we love our own culture," says Leila, who lives in the cultural capital of Marrakech. "But ours is now a European way of life."
What a transformation. It's been 50 years since Morocco declared ...
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