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Tahar Ben Jelloun

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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


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A Palace in the Old Village (2010). Selected works
Harrouda (1973)
Solitaire (1976)
French Hospitality (1984)
The Sand Child (1985)
The Sacred Night (1987)
Silent Day in Tangiers (1990)
With Downcast Eyes (1991)
State of Absence (1992)
Corruption (1995)
The Fruits of Hard Work (1996)
Praise of Friendship (1996)
L'Auberge des pauvres (1997)
Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998)
This Blinding Absence of Light (2000)
Islam Explained (2002)
La Belle au bois dormant (2004)
The last friend (2006)
Yemma (2007)
Leaving Tangier (2009)
The Rising of the ATahar Ben Jellouns (2009) ISBN 978-0-87286-526-6. After that point Ben Jelloun worked as a professor in Morocco teaching philosophy first in Tétouan and then in Casablanca.

The entirety of his work is written in French although his first language is Arabic. Tahar ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون‎) (born in Fes French Morocco 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer.

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