I must remember this: My first encounter with Morocco‘s largest city (pop. 3.6 million) was, perhaps like that of many, not in Technicolour but in dramatic black and white – the Michael Curtiz movie classic produced by the Warner Brothers studio. It was the wartime Casablancainhabited by Rick and Ilsa (aka Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman),  along with Victor Laszlo, agent Renault, and Sam the piano player. As time went by, I also discovered its delightful Marx brothers parody, A Night in Casablanca  (per Groucho, “If this lady is your wife, you should be ashamed!”). 

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