Al-Ahram Weekly   Al-Ahram Weekly
5 - 11 August 1999
Issue No. 441
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King Mohamed VI

In Jordan, Bahrain, and now Morocco, boy kings (relatively speaking) are stepping out of the shadows. In the week following his father's death, King Mohamed VI has had to make a rapid transition. Here, I have drawn him emerging from a vapour of anonymity; his features, however, are very clear.

By George Bahgory