Dar-el-Beida

While Casablanca has much to do with male power and male friendship, righteousness and adventure, Dar-el-Beida concerns the feelings of the refugees/outsiders who people the background of the film. In Dar-el-Beida (the Latinized Arab name for Casablanca) Bogart asks, "Do you want my advice?" His cynical answer (in Casablanca) is the unspoken reality of Dar-el-Beida. (Tim Sharp)