Hassan Ii, in the Privacy of a King

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Forget the king of the international scene: Hassan II laughed in front of Disney cartoons, ate local dishes, read at night to conjure insomnia and peeled the school bulletins of "his" orphaned as a demanding patriarch. In the video interview she gave to Young Africa, Atika Benzidane – the chetive child he once collected in an orphanage – delivers an intimate and unexpected portrait of the sovereign.