The leading scorer in the Moroccan so far this season, MA Tetouan's Abderrazak El Mnassfi also gets his first call up along with other home-based players Adil Razzaki, Ahmed Elouali Alami and Hicham Al Amrani.

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The New York-based drama group, Ma-Yi Theater Ensemble, now in its 10th season, did the latest staging, following its 1996 off-Broadway triumph, Flipzoids, about the identity crisis of modern-day Filipino Americans ("Flips" in street slang).

CNN: A WANDERING NATION

These days Ma-Yi does mostly homegrown work - one big play per season, plus workshop skits and productions with other groups.

CNN: A WANDERING NATION