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- 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): 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): 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...
- 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, 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): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence that could lead them to identify his victims. Fear spreads throughout the city as...