Rita Nezami is a scholar and translator who teaches writing and world literature at SUNY Stony Brook. In 2016 Northwestern University Press published her translations of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s writings on the Arab Spring. She is currently translating Ben Jelloun’s 2016 novel on racism in Morocco, Le Mariage de Plaisir.
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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...
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?...