The ladies of Sex And The City will soon bid farewell to their beloved Big Apple and head to Morocco to shoot scenes for the franchise’s upcoming box office hit, according to Life & Style Magazine. The move comes after officials in Dubai deemed the envelope-pushing franchise to racy to take up filming in the strict United Arab Emirates,

Instead, several Middle Eastern-centered subplots in the script for Sex And The City 2 will be shot in the Moroccan cities of Erfoud, Rabat and Marrakech.