As several expatriate Moroccans learn in Jelloun's latest, it doesn't matter how difficult life may be in the home country, a whole new set of difficulties waits in the promised land. Most of the ...

Tahar Ben Jelloun (born December 1, 1944) is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Darija or Maghrebi Arabic. Today he resides in Paris, ...

For the next year and a half, Ben Jelloun, a leftist political prisoner and supposed military recruit, served time in a prison camp. There he, along with other political prisoners, was subjected to ...

Casablanca—insomniac, immense, overcrowded, and alive—is full of young people who are no longer afraid. Casablanca—insomniac, immense, overcrowded, and alive—is full of young people who are no longer ...

Moroccan poet and novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun talks about his latest novel The Last Friend and looks back on his heartwrenching 2004 IMPAC award-winning novel This Blinding Absence of Light, which ...

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a deeply moral writer, in the mould of Albert Camus. The two men share some obvious similarities: both were born into poor families; their mothers were illiterate; each moved from ...

From the author of Racism Explained to My Daughter comes this slender but ambitious treatise designed to make sense of Islam to young Western readers in the wake of September 11. Jelloun organized his ...

Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun won the world's richest literary prize for a single work of fiction yesterday for his novel This Blinding Absence of Light. Canadian author Rohinton Mistry was among ...

At one point in this short but ambitious novel, a character philosophizes about those “on the margins of society,” including “an American writer who’d lived (in Tangier) for several years with an ...

IN HIS latest work to be translated into English, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco's best-known novelist, examines how much people are willing to sacrifice to start a new life in Europe, and the ...