Susan Orlean returns to Fez to explore the donkey’s “central role in the life of this desert kingdom.”
So a good donkey is respected and valued – it is estimated that 100,000 people in the Fez area depend in one way or another on a donkey for their livelihood – but the animals are not sentimentalized. – from “Where Donkeys Deliver,” by Susan Orelan, Smithsonian (September 2009)