Introduction: Morocco bound, 1942-1973 -- Taking Casablanca -- American orientalism: taking Casablanca -- Sheltering screens: Paul Bowles and foreign relations -- Queer Tangier -- Tangier(s): the multiple cold war contexts of the international zone -- Disorienting the national subject: Burroughs's Tangier, Hitchcock's Marrakech -- Three serious writers, two serious authors: Jane Bowles, Mohammed Mrabet, and the erotics of collaboration politics of translation -- Marrakech Express -- Hippie orientalism: the interpretation of countercultures.