[T]he Media and Expression Liberties Organisation and House of Wisdom, “criticised the prosecution in separate statements, calling it a ‘crackdown on freedom of expression and creativity.'”
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Morocco
Emma Ramadan Receives PEN/Heim Grant to Translate Ahmed Bouanani’s ‘Les Persiennes’
“This volume of prose poems—by turns haunting, elegant, and surreal—is a key text by a major Francophone Moroccan poet and filmmaker, deftly translated by Emma Ramadan.”
The First Abdellatif Laâbi Collection of 2016 Out Now
“Reading sometimes means
being humiliated for not writing”
Muhammad Zafzaf’s ‘The Elusive Fox’: Turning the Euro-American Story about Morocco Inside Out
“It′s populated by the European hippies who floated around Morocco, but written from the point of view of Ali, a long-haired gym teacher from Casablanca who travels out to the country′s west coast because he too wants to smoke hash, drink wine, enjoy free love and swim nude in the ocean.”
Fouad Laroui and Emma Ramadan on How To Keep ‘Dassoukine’s Trousers’ Funny in English
“My uncle, the famous historian Abdallah Laroui, once told my French publisher: ‘My nephew’s style is ironic and humorous. I have no idea where it comes from: we Laroui’s are renowned for our lack of humor.'”
Tahar Ben Jelloun’s ‘About My Mother’ Wins 2016 PEN Promotes Award
“This is the final round of the PEN Promotes awards scheme in its current form[.]”
Tareq Bakari’s IPAF-shortlisted ‘Numedia’ Wins Morocco Book Award
“‘Numedia’ is narrated by a Frenchwoman, Julia, but tells the life story of an orphaned Moroccan boy named Murad.”
Sights and Scenes from the 2016 Casablanca Book Fair
The 22nd Casablanca International Book Fair (SIEL) opened February 12 and will continue through the 21st.
Why You Should Know Moroccan Author of Cult Classic ‘L’hôpital’
“For Anglophone readers, L’hôpital will come out in English next year from New Directions.”
Moroccan Writer and Scholar Fatema Mernissi, 75
“Writing is one of the most ancient forms of prayer. To write is to believe communication is possible that other people are good, that you can awaken their generosity and their desire to do better.”
‘Only Vagabonds Can Be Poets’
“A new collection of Laâbi’s work has also just appeared in Italian.”
Morocco in ‘Open Confrontation with the Arabic Language(s)’?
“…if we speak Standard Arabic we will end up like the Saudis!”
