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    Tahar Ben Jelloun

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    My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #out #own #sensibility #steers #their

    New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #europe #example #fought #freedom #ideas

    I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #i #i love #jokes #laughter #life

    Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #highly #mathematics #poetry #relationship #rigorous

    Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #each #further #glimpse #goes #much

    The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #best #doubt #give #himself #intellectual

    The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #authorities #belonged #men #morocco #people

    The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #arab world #desire #does #healthy #knowledge

    There are very few great poets in the world. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #great #poets #very #world

    There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals. ↗


    — Tahar Ben Jelloun

    #between #gulf #intellectuals






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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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