The Moroccan Daughter 23rd May 2022
In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed . . . Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco to attend her sister’s wedding. The time has come for her to...
In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed . . . Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco to attend her sister’s wedding. The time has come for her to...
“I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco…” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass , Mernissi weaves...
Fez, 1954, and American ex-pat Stenham reluctantly accepts a guide for his night-time walk home through the streets of the Medina. A nationalist uprising is transforming the country, much to the annoyance of Stenham, who enjoys the trappings of...
When Suzanna Clarke and her husband bought a dilapidated house in the Moroccan town of Fez, their friends thought they were mad. Located in a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, the house – a traditional riad – was beautiful but...