Product Description: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s By Fire, the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt...read more

Offers portraits of Italians from all walks of life with subjects including priests, prostitutes, beggars, and mafiosi.

Product Description: From one of the world's great writers, a breakthrough novel about leaving home for a better life In his new novel, award-winning, internationally bestselling author Tahar Ben Jelloun tells the story of a Moroccan brother and sister making new lives for themselves in Spain...read more

Traces an intense thirty-year relationship between two young men in twentieth-century Tangier, as they struggle to find their identities and sexual fulfillment in late-1950s Morocco, an endeavor that takes them from their carefree university days through a brutal imprisonment and psychologically daunting release into the moral strictures of North Africa. By the author of This Blinding Absence of Light. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question: "What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?" Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages...read more

The teacher in a remote West African village--a native of the town who managed to get an education in the city and returned to help his neighbors--sees his hungry pupils slip away to work in a sweatshop and determines to do what he can to combat this evil.The teacher in a remote West African village--a native of the town who got an education and returned to help his neighbors--sees his hungry pupils slip away to work in a sweatshop and determines to do what he can to combat this evil.

Un enfant est curieux. Il pose beaucoup de questions et il attend des réponses précises et convaincantes. On ne triche pas avec les questions d''un enfant. C''est en m''accompagnant à une manifestation contre un projet de loi sur l''immigration que ma fille m''a interrogé sur le racisme. Nous avons beaucoup parlé. Les enfants sont mieux placés que quiconque pour comprendre qu''on ne naît pas raciste mais qu''on le devient. Parfois. Ce livre qui essaie de répondre aux questions de ma fille s''adresse aux enfants qui n''ont pas encore de préjugés et veulent comprendre. Quant aux adultes qui le liront, j''espère qu''il les aidera à répondre aux questions, plus embarrassantes qu''on ne le croit, de leurs propres enfants.«Sept ans après le dialogue avec Mérième âgée à l''époque de dix ans, nous avons constaté, tous deux, que non seulement le racisme n''a pas reculé mais qu''il s''est banalisé et dans certains cas aggravé. Nous avons essayé de comprendre ses nouvelles manifestations : la montée de l''antisémitisme et de l''islamophobie dans les collèges et les lycées. Nous avons aussi essayé d''expliquer en quoi la loi sur la laïcité s''imposait. » - TBJ

Uses a question and answer format to explain the origins of Islam and its contributions to world science and philosophy.

Writing to respond to his ten-year-old daughter's questions about racism, the author skillfully distills this complicated issue for a child, offering parents advice on how to explain bigotry to their own children. Original.

The award-winning Moroccan-born author of The Sacred Night and Corruption provides a chilling fictional account of the horrific desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies and the inhumane conditions in which survivors lived. Reprint.

Zahra tries to find happiness after her father's death, but is caught up in the world of brothels and prisons

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Product Description: Fascinated by the medinas, or Muslim districts, of Morocco's cities, leading French photographer Jean-Marc Tingaud received permission from the Moroccan Palace authorities to photograph these mysterious worlds of a bygone age. Capturing the historic past of a country over 1000 years old, each image in this book is like a painting, transporting the viewer into a timeless atmosphere of calm and neglected beauty...read more

Much to the chagrin of his boss, wife, and colleagues, scrupulously moral Mourad refuses to accept 'commissions' for his work, until overwhelming pressures make him give in, with disastrous results

In the legendary city of Tangier, an old man lies dying, and remembers the lives of those who died before him

After seven daughters a Moroccan father decides his eighth child will be a son and heir no matter what its gender

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