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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


#death #defeat #doors #drowning #emigration

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


#am #continuing #expressing #feel #french

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.


— Tahar Ben Jelloun


#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy






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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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