In honor of today’s match, we’re running this essay from our beloved FOOTBALL issue, by Moroccan author Yassin Adnan, translated by Moroccan translator Hicham Rafik, with photographs by Moroccan photographer Omar Mesrar.
“Through it all, Moroccans have maintained their ability to laugh at everything. Do we not have a well-known proverb that says, ‘Too much worrying makes you laugh?'”
ArabLit Staff This week, we continue our Women in Translation Month (#WiTMonth) Wednesday series of “9 Stories” lists. In 2021, we featured short fiction by Sudanese and South Sudanese women, by Algerian women, by Egyptian […]
“Jokes are the salt of social life.”
“Nevertheless, he knew that his fate would be no different from that of young Samsa: he would die in three months, no more and no less, just before his twenty-seventh birthday.”
“On that day: I came home from school early. I didn’t find you, but I made an excuse for your absence, and sat, and waited.”
“They’ll be having a virtual Issue 21 launch party on May 6 at 7 pm EDT.”
“This is not a book of “high” culture only. It contains the tastes of many aspects of Moroccan society.”
“of footfalls that never return / from the checkpoint / which only sends back bodies;”
