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For Bread Alone

Interviews, Morocco For Bread Alone, Jonas Elbousty, Mohamed Boukhzar, Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles

Mohamed Boukhza on Mohamed Choukri: ‘Romantic, Short-tempered,’ and with No Time for Hypocrites or Flatterers

September 22, 2021

“He was a multi-faceted person: romantic, short tempered, and self-loving with a high self-esteem. When surrounded by friends he liked, he would laugh hysterically. In him there was a mixture of spontaneity, adventure, and shrewdness. He was not malicious, and he believed in what he wrote.”

News Abdelaziz Mouride, For Bread Alone, Mohamed Choukri

A New Graphic-novel Adaptation of Mohamed Choukri’s ‘For Bread Alone’

February 5, 2020

A graphic-novel adaptation of Mohamed Choukri’s iconic For Bread Alone — by Moroccan comics artist Abdelaziz Mouride (1949-2013) is finally coming to print.

Lit Lists Abdelrahman Munif, Cairo Trilogy, Children of the Alley, Cities of Salt, Edwar al Kharrat, Elias Khoury, Emile Habibi, For Bread Alone, Gamal al-Ghitani, Gate of the Sun, In Search of Walid Masoud, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Mohamed Choukri, Naguib Mahfouz, Rama and the Dragon, Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih, The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist, Zayni Barakat

On Banipal’s ‘100 Best Arabic Novels’

November 19, 2018

“Usefully, the Banipal list is not just a list, but also includes brief introductions to both the works and their authors, as well as some contextualization.”