Talk of Darkness (Paperback)

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While imprisoned, she helped organize a hunger strike, completed her undergraduate degree in sociology, and began work on a Master x2019;s degree. Beginning with the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened political tension of the 1970s, Talk of Darkness tells the true story of one woman x2019;s struggle to secure political prisoners x2019; rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment. Poetically rendered from Arabic into English by Mustapha Kamal and Susan Slyomovics, Fatna El Bouih x2019;s memoir exposes the techniques of state-instigated x201C;disappearance x201D; in Morocco and condemns the lack of laws to protect prisoners x2019; basic human rights.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Fatna El Bouih
Translators:	Mustapha Kamal • Susan Slyomovics
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-0-292-71915-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > Prisons Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-292-71915-9
Barcode:	9780292719156

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