The story of an immigrant named Mohammed who has spent forty years in France and is about to retire. Taking stock of his life- his devotion to Islam and t...

“Ben Jelloun is arguably Morocco’s greatest living author, whose impressive body of work combines intellect and imagination in magical fusion.” —The Guard...

"Morocco's greatest living author." — The Guardian UK"A writer of social and moral acuteness." — Los Angeles Times"A writer of much originality." — The Ch...

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 Tun...

Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. A young man called Azel is inte...

The novel “The Sacred Night” by Tahar Bendjelloun became an event in the literary life of the late 80s and received the Goncourt Prize (1987). On the twenty-...