Five Places to See Before the Revolution

When you think of exotic Marrakech, you probably think of Doris Day and Jimmy Stewart blazing a path in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much—not anti-government protests like the ones that rocked the “Red City” (and 50 others in Morocco) during February. Marrakech is one of the nation’s former imperial cities and still boasts the region’s largest bazaar. Protests also spread to the ancient city of Fez, in the northeast. The city is often considered the soul of Morocco, and its oldest district, Fes el Bali, built in the ninth century, is a maze of unpaved alleys lined with fountains, hundreds of mosques, and museums(also, increasingly, dissidents).