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- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)
- ↑ Mandelbaum, Jacques (29 September 2009). ""Nos lieux interdits" : enquête autour de disparus sous la dictature d'Hassan II". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 12 March 2012.
