Moroccan Jewish Art & Culture  by N.R. Reitano Traveling through 11th century Morocco an Arab geographer, al-Bakri, recorded a proverb of the Maghreb people: “Fez is a town without people.” This disquieting expression imagines the overshadowing of Muslims by a growing Jewish population, one whose commercial success and ties to distant parts of the world might threaten the economic interests as well as the cultural and religious integrity of their Muslim neighbors. >> Read the full article...		8/1/2004