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Monarch of the Square

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652968
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Monarch of the Square written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers. Zafzaf’s stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace. Narrative time is reduced to a single glimpse in these stories, full of irony, sarcasm, and sympathy. He covers all aspects of Moroccan life, from remote rural villages to modern cities. The stories in this collection explore the various myths, beliefs, and traditions that operate within Moroccan culture, questioning them from a distance in an easy, conversational manner that is the hallmark of Zafzaf’s style.

An Anthology of Moroccan Short Stories

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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book An Anthology of Moroccan Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present anthology of Moroccan short stories will be of interest to specialists in contemporary Arabic literature and the general reader wishing to go beyond commonly-accepted stereotypes of morocco. Written during the period from the 1940s to the 1980s, the stories are a useful introduction to the concerns of Moroccan authors as they document and interpret the profound and rapid changes their country has experienced both under the French Protectorate (1912-1956) and since independence. -- Back cover.

Monarch of the Square

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Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815633693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Monarch of the Square written by and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of the short story form, Muhammad Zafzaf is one of Morocco’s greatest narrative writers. This anthology, the first collection of his work translated into English, is a tribute to the remarkable influence he exerted on an entire generation of Moroccan storytellers. Zafzaf’s stories are set within a variety of contexts, each portraying a slice of life, a simple struggle for survival in a challenging world that is changing at a rapid pace. Narrative time is reduced to a single glimpse in these stories, full of irony, sarcasm, and sympathy. He covers all aspects of Moroccan life, from remote rural villages to modern cities. The stories in this collection explore the various myths, beliefs, and traditions that operate within Moroccan culture, questioning them from a distance in an easy, conversational manner that is the hallmark of Zafzaf’s style.

Imagining Morocco

Author : Khalid Bekkaoui
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789981829671
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Morocco written by Khalid Bekkaoui and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaging Morocco is a collection of short narratives on Morocco by British and American writers. The book brings to the fore the richness and immense variety in settings and themes in the depiction of Morocco, which unfolds in the anthology as a cross-cultural contact zone. The stories in this volume chart complex encounters and reveal irreconcilable discursive, ideological, and sexual contradictions in the representation of cultural differences. The setting shifts through various geographical locations such as Tangier, Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech, the Riff mountains, and the remote Sahara. The reader is exposed to a wide variety of narratorial positions, ranging from from Western narrators, who speak from the position of power and through the prism of their cultural values and colonial loyalties, to narrators who willingly identify with the natives.

Moroccan Folktales

Author : Jilali El Koudia
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815654448
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Moroccan Folktales written by Jilali El Koudia and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on stories he heard as a boy from female relatives, Jilali El Koudia presents a cross section of utterly bewitching narratives. Filled with ghouls and fools, kind magic and wicked, eternal bonds and earthly wishes, these are mesmerizing stories to be savored, studied, or simply treasured. Varied genres include anecdotes, legends, and animal fables, and some tales bear strong resemblance to European counterparts, for example Aamar and his Sister (Hansel and Gretel) and Nunja and the White Dove (Cinderella). All capture the heart of Morroco and the soul of its people. In an enlightening introduction, El Koudia mourns the loss of the teller of tales in the marketplace, and he makes it clear that storytelling, born of memory and oral tradition, could vanish in the face of mass and electronic media.

Marrakech Noir

Author : Fouad Laroui
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617756539
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Marrakech Noir written by Fouad Laroui and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique anthology of crime fiction features 15 original stories of “scandals, smugglers, and other sordid tales” by award-winning Moroccan authors (CrimeReads). At first glance, Marrakech may seem like an odd setting for noir fiction. Contemporary Moroccans call it The Joyful City—a place where locals are happy to joke about gossip and quick to forget stories of crime. But in Marrakech Noir, some of Morocco’s finest authors address old wrong that have been kept hidden behind the city’s ancient gates, and spin contemporary tales of poverty, grift, and violence in this global tourist destination. Marrakech Noir features brand-new stories by Fouad Laroui, Allal Bourqia, Abdelkader Benali, Mohamed Zouhair, Mohamed Achaari, Hanane Derkaoui, Fatiha Morchid, Mahi Binebine, Mohamed Nedali, Halima Zine El Abidine, My Seddik Rabbaj, Yassin Adnan, Karima Nadir, Taha Adnan, and Lahcen Bakour.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (929 download)

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Download or read book Book title written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Storytellers

Author : Richard Hamilton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720155
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Last Storytellers written by Richard Hamilton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences. But this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy. Richard Hamilton has witnessed at first hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition and, in the labyrinth of the Marrakech medina, has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.

Souffles-Anfas

Author : Olivia C. Harrison
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804796238
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Souffles-Anfas written by Olivia C. Harrison and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics introduces and makes available, for the first time in English, an incandescent corpus of experimental leftist writing from North Africa. Founded in 1966 by Abdellatif Laâbi and a small group of avant-garde Moroccan poets and artists and banned in 1972, Souffles-Anfas was one of the most influential literary, cultural, and political reviews to emerge in postcolonial North Africa. An early forum for tricontinental postcolonial thought and writing, the journal published texts ranging from experimental poems, literary manifestos, and abstract art to political tracts, open letters, and interviews by contributors from the Maghreb, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The essays, poems, and artwork included in this anthology—by the likes of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Albert Memmi, Etel Adnan, Sembene Ousmane, René Depestre, and Mohamed Melehi—offer a unique window into the political and artistic imaginaries of writers and intellectuals from the Global South, and resonate with particular acuity in the wake of the Arab Spring. A critical introduction and section headnotes make this collection the perfect companion for courses in postcolonial theory, world literature, and poetry in translation.

The Director and Other Stories from Morocco

Author : Laylá Abū Zayd
Publisher : Cmes Modern Middle East Litera
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Director and Other Stories from Morocco written by Laylá Abū Zayd and published by Cmes Modern Middle East Litera. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New stories about modern Morocco and its people by critically acclaimed author Leila Abouzeid.

Arab Women Writers

Author : Dalya Cohen-Mor
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Arab Women Writers written by Dalya Cohen-Mor and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-05-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of sixty short stories by forty women writers from across the Arab world, this collection opens numerous windows onto Arab culture and society and offers keen insights into what Arab women feel and think. The stories deal not only with feminist issues but also with topics of a social, cultural, and political nature. Different styles and modes of writing are represented, along with a diversity of techniques and creative approaches, and the authors present many points of view and various ways of solving problems and confronting situations in everyday life. Lively, outspoken, and provocative, these stories are essential reading for anyone interested in the Arab world.

Moroccan Short Stories

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Moroccan Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Elusive Fox

Author : Muhammad Zafzaf
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653816
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Fox written by Muhammad Zafzaf and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of Morocco’s most important contemporary writers, Muhammad Zafzaf created stories of alterity, compassionate tales inhabited by prostitutes, thieves, and addicts living in the margins of society. In The Elusive Fox, Zafzaf’s first novel to be translated into English, a young teacher visits the coastal city of Essaouira in the 1960s. There he meets a group of European bohemians and local Moroccans and is exposed to the grittier side of society. More than a novel, The Elusive Fox is a portrait of a city during a time of fluid cultural and political mores in Morocco.

Another Morocco

Author : Abdellah Taïa
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1584351942
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Another Morocco written by Abdellah Taïa and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it's impossible not to be visited by them. —from Another Morocco In 2006, Abdellah Taïa returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, Le rouge du tarbouche (The Red of the Fez). During this book tour, he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal Tel Quel, who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his writing. Taïa, who had not publically come out and feared the repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless consented to the interview and subsequent profile, “Homosexuel envers et contre tous” (“Homosexual against All Odds”). This interview made him the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. Another Morocco collects short stories from Taïa's first two books, Mon Maroc (My Morocco) and Le rouge du tarbouche, both published before this pivotal moment. In these stories, we see a young writer testing the porousness of boundaries, flirting with strategies of revelation and concealment. These are tales of life in a working-class Moroccan family, of a maturing writer's fraught relationship with language and community, and of the many cities and works that have inspired him. With a reverence for the subaltern—for the strength of women and the disenfranchised—these stories speak of humanity and the construction of the self against forces that would invalidate its very existence. Taïa's work is, necessarily, a political gesture.

An Anthology of Arabic Literature

Author : Tarif Khalidi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474410786
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book An Anthology of Arabic Literature written by Tarif Khalidi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers a wide thematic and chronological spread that includes both verse and prose. Contains newly-translated texts on a range of subjects such as the occult sciences, heresy, psychological reflections, literary theory, sexual etiquette, man and nature, geographical observations, and reflections on world history. Includes extracts from philosophers, theologians and scientists. Provides marginal glosses to explain key terms, figures and moments.

The Lost Generation : Collected Short Stories

Author : Abdellatif Akbib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789981926158
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Generation : Collected Short Stories written by Abdellatif Akbib and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Something Strange, Like Hunger

Author : Malīkah Mustaẓraf
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ISBN 13 : 9780863569166
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (691 download)

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Download or read book Something Strange, Like Hunger written by Malīkah Mustaẓraf and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf's collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by a master of the genre. Here, we tune into Casablanca's unheard: a sex worker struggling to keep warm on the streets; a housewife flirting with strangers online; a kidney patient, priced-out of treatment, facing the harsh reality of his condition; and a mother scheming to ensure her daughter passes a virginity test. Something Strange, Like Hunger is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebration of the life and genius of one of Morocco's preeminent writers." From publisher's website