The international port of Tangier in those years, in comparison, seems like a provincial backwater.

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Tangier, Agadir, Meknes, Marrakech, El Jadida, Fes and Morocco's two largest cities, Rabat and Casablanca.

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Hampshire police were alerted at 16:20 GMT and 25 homes in Tangier Road were evacuated and the road was closed.

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And the primary setting is a place called Interzone, a fever-dream rendering of Tangier, where much of the novel was written.

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Cox's Moroccan cliff-top house and garden, located in a quiet rural area of Tangier, is a surprising combination of modest and spectacular.

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Azel, an educated, heterosexual young man from Tangier, is unable to find work and becomes obsessed with his desire to escape from Morocco.

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Back in Tangier, the most touching figure is Malika, an imaginative young girl who dies before any of her dreams can be realised.

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Because of his whiplash schedule, with regular meetings in Paris, Marrakech, New York and Mumbai, Tangier is, alas, the place he spends the least amount of time.

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In 40 short chapters Mr Ben Jelloun weaves together a tapestry of exile and loss as he follows his characters through the dream and reality of leaving Tangier.

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Wounded in France in the first world war, he became an intelligence officer in Tangier in 1942-43 and helped prepare the ground for the Allied landing in north Africa.

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