Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books. 2021. 133 pages. BENEATH ITS BUSTLING marketplace and wondrous architecture, Fez, Morocco, is no less susceptible to hatred. Tahar Ben Jello…

Photo of Tétouan by Jean-Louis Potier / Flickr An early novel, L’Écrivain public (The public scribe) is a surrealistic, semi-autobiographical work that imagines the arc of the au…

London. Telegram Books. 2016. 247 pages.There is a sort of prophetic air that accompanies much of the titular figure’s speech in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s About My Mother. Though autobiographi…

Evanston, Illinois. Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press. 2016. 120 pages.Where does one begin to speak of the Arab Spring, after all that has been expended in dreams, analysis, and li…