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I Do Not Sleep (Paperback)
Iohsaan Abd Al-Qaddaus; Contributions by Jonathan Smolin
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R544
R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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When young and handsome Othman married Sofia-sophisticated, French,
rich, and forty years his senior-he found his ticket out of a life
of desperate poverty in the slums of Casablanca. But when Sofia is
brutally murdered, the police quickly zero in on Othman as the
prime suspect. With his mistress, the love of his life, waiting in
the wings he certainly has motive. But is he guilty? Or has he been
framed by an overzealous, corrupt police force?
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the
Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive
images of the police, once the symbol of state repression,
reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new
era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to
understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over
the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including
crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and
police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular
culture in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Whitefly - A Novel (Paperback)
Abdelilah Hamdouchi; Translated by Jonathan Smolin
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R286
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Discovery Miles 2 570
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Set in contemporary Tangier, Morocco, Detective Laafrit
investigates the case of four corpses washed up on the beach. The
victims are presumed illegal immigrants, drowned trying to reach
Spain packed in small fishing boats, however Laafrit soon discovers
that one of them has been brutally shot. Guns are illegal in
Morocco and the mysterious shooting shakes the police force as the
hunt for the murder weapon begins in earnest. With the help of his
informants, Laafrit's investigation reveals a spiraling conspiracy
of international sabotage.
It's spring 1990 in a dingy small-town Moroccan bar. Zina is
serving drinks when a mysterious man approaches her. The man gives
Zina a handwritten note from her husband, Aziz, who disappeared the
day after their wedding, eighteen years ago, after participating in
the failed 1972 coup against King Hassan II. Zina has spent the
past eighteen years searching for Aziz, who has been imprisoned in
inhuman conditions in a solitary cell inside a secret desert jail.
Will Zina finally find Aziz? Moving back and forth between 1990 and
the past, A Rare Blue Bird That Flies with Me recounts the painful
circumstances that brought Zina and Aziz together and the torture
after the 1972 coup that tore them apart. Told from the perspective
of several narrators-including Zina, Aziz, Aziz's two
jailors-Youssef Fadel's novel is a masterful history of modern
Morocco.
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I Do Not Sleep (Hardcover)
Iohsaan Abd Al-Qaddaus; Contributions by Jonathan Smolin
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R1,533
Discovery Miles 15 330
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Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of
Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth
analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled
here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab
world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria.
Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned
films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with
few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical
attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to
people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal
traditions, or religious fundamentalism-theirs is a cinema engage.
The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache,
Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi,
Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of
Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth
analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled
here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab
world—Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria.
Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned
films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with
few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical
attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to
people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal
traditions, or religious fundamentalism—theirs is a cinéma
engagé. The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak
Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel
Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia
Suleiman.
Facing rising demands for human rights and the rule of law, the
Moroccan state fostered new mass media and cultivated more positive
images of the police, once the symbol of state repression,
reinventing the relationship between citizen and state for a new
era. Jonathan Smolin examines popular culture and mass media to
understand the changing nature of authoritarianism in Morocco over
the past two decades. Using neglected Arabic sources including
crime tabloids, television movies, true-crime journalism, and
police advertising, Smolin sheds new light on politics and popular
culture in the Middle East and North Africa.
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