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Opium pipe in a beautifully anointed house littered with sleeping boys. >> or girls. >> to what extent did that world exist? to what extent was the world created with people who showed up with that expectation? >> since bill departed, dear, wonderful, marvelous man, since he's gone, it's a little bit tame now. >> it is tame. >> he was -- >> gentile now. >> he was the very opposition of gentile. he was an outlaw. >> my husband knew him very well and was selling the yes bill. he said i cured him of being a drug addict. i said, how? he said, i turned him into an alcoholic. >> who smokes hashish a...

Bags. >> right. >> today we have so many investments going on in tangier. thanks to our king, investors are here. being attracted. tourists are attracted. but the most important part of it is we should keep the old parts of the city in tact. the medina. >> the medina. >> that's what's hard to do. when you have european purchasing power coming over here to tangier -- >> they come like we come. we embrace it. other people want to come. then we fall out. will tangier's unique character survive? >> i hope so. i really hope so. >> tangier is morocco. always was morocco. recently the country's >> ta...

And a wad of mayo. a crispy layer of french fries within the sandwich. this is delicious, by the way. the bread here is very good. you work in magazine, journalist? >> i'm not a journalist but own an urban magazine in tangier to inform moroccans we're living in a place that's pretty special. the city has something that makes it different from other cities. >> what about young artists, young writers, young musicians? did they come here expecting this romantic paul bowles wonderland of the '50s? >> some were too bohemian. >> too bohemian? >> yeah. they thought, you know, coming and being an arti...

Most cities in the islamic world, getting a beer can be difficult. not here. as long as you're outside the medina, nearly anything goes. tangier reverts to its past. here western influences become very apparent. ♪ >> any night of the week is a good night for young moroccans to take to the streets. he is from a generation of moroccoans far removed from the bowles/burroughs era. he invited me out for a casual snack. spanish-style sandwiches with tuna, veggies, hard cooked eggs

Far both geographically and spiritually, to leave it behind. ♪ ♪ i took a wall ♪ through this beautiful world ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ perhaps something good ♪ in this beautiful world ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ tangier, it's morocco.