Tahar Ben Jelloun

  • The cover to The Pleasure Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    The Pleasure Marriage by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Tahar Ben Jelloun
    Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books. 2021. 133 pages. BENEATH ITS BUSTLING marketplace and wondrous architecture, Fez, Morocco, is no less susceptible to hatred. Tahar Ben Jelloun’s g…
  • A picture of a secluded ancient city street where a tree loaded with red blooms sprouts from beside a stone building creating shade for those walking the street

    The Public Scribe

    May 16, 2019 Tahar Ben Jelloun
    Photo of Tétouan by Jean-Louis Potier / Flickr An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-autobiographical work that imagines the arc of the author’s l…
  • The cover to About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    About My Mother by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Tahar Ben Jelloun
    London. Telegram Books. 2016. 247 pages. There is a sort of prophetic air that accompanies much of the titular figure’s speech in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s About My Mother. Though autobiographical…
  • The cover to By Fire: Writings on the Arab Spring by Tahar Ben Jelloun

    Tahar Ben Jelloun
    Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press. 2016. 120 pages. Where does one begin to speak of the Arab Spring, after all that has been expended in dreams, analysis, and lives?…