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...
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An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-autobiographical work that imagines the arc of the aut...
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...
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?...