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Afropop listeners know Joseph Braude for his superb contributions to the Hip Deep program catalogue, notably A Tale of Two Rebellions, with its brilliant use of contemporary film clips to tell tales of fateful long-ago conflicts, and Africans in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf, a rare look at all-but-hidden African history in the Arab world.  For the past three years, Braude has been working on a book based on four-months he spent embedded with the Moroccan secret police in Casablanca.   Braude describes the book as a "true-to-life murder mystery" and notes that members of the legendary Moroccan roots band Nass el Ghiwane (Afropop favorites, and once dubbed "the Rolling Stones of Morocco" by Martin Scorsese) are characters in the story, essentially "spiritual detectives."  The book is called The Honored Dead, and it hits the market today.  You can watch a trailer, read Braude's intro to the book, order it and much more at http://josephbraude.com/ .