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- Location(s): Casablanca, Tafraout
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set in fictional Tiziane, based on Tafraoute. Bringing 1950s Morocco vividly to life, Jane Johnson’s masterful new novel, The Black Crescent, is a gripping story of murder, magic and divided loyalties… Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
Casablanca’s stinking alleys are the only home that 19 year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering on the local cinemas screen offer the only glimmer of hope to...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
On the outskirts of Casablanca, next to the dump, is the shantytown of Sidi Moumen, where Yachine and his ten brothers grew up in the aimless chaos of drugs, violence, unemployment, and despair. The barefoot boys started their own...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Casablanca. Othman, a handsome young Moroccan man, returns home to discover his elderly French wife, Sofia, brutally murdered in their bedroom. Highly educated but chronically unemployed, Othman had been in desperate straits before meeting Sofia, who pampered him with...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“In Vendela Vida’s taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business. While checking into her hotel, the woman is robbed of her wallet and passport-all of her money and identification. Though the...
A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
In 1980s Casablanca, Farah arrives from her small town life with big dreams: she wants to sing. She meets Outhman, but he longs to leave the city, to seek his fortune elsewhere. They fall in love, but trouble brews...
- Location(s): Casablanca
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
When a prostitute and her ill-fated lover are killed in a gruesome double murder, seasoned investigator Detective Hanash is called in. The case draws him into Casablanca’s slums, blighted by criminality, religious extremism, and despair. Hanash’s years on the...
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
- Location(s): Morocco, Casablanca
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
There’s Murad, a gentle, unemployed man who’s been reduced to hustling tourists around Tangier; Halima, who’s fleeing her drunken husband and the slums of Casablanca; Aziz, who must leave behind his devoted wife in hope of securing work in...
- Location(s): Casablanca, Morocco, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political ‘truths’ that envelop their lives....
- Location(s): Casablanca, Kenitra
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): 1944
An OSS officer is dispatched on a secret mission to French Morocco to dismantle a Nazi network reporting on the U.S. Navy’s Africa Squadron.
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