The Moroccan city of Tangier has long been a place of allure. Painters, writers, and free spirits found all the pleasures of the East there. After the "white dove on Africa's shoulder" vanished from Europe's consciousness for 30 years, it is now experiencing a new economic and cultural revival. The book focuses on the city's inhabitants: How do they cope with the changes, and how do they remember their cosmopolitan past? What role do spirits and trance brotherhoods play in this? What is behind the city's reputation as a place of sinful and sexual fulfillment? Dieter Haller's ethnography shows that it is worth rediscovering Tangier.