Another Morocco av Abdellah Taia

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<b>Tales of life in North Africa that flirt with strategies of revelation and concealment, by the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco.</b><p>Tangier is a possessed city, haunted by spirits of different faiths. When we have literature in our blood, in our souls, it''s impossible not to be visited by them.<b><br></b>—from <i>Another Morocco</i></p><p>In 2006, Abdellah Taïa returned to his native Morocco to promote the Moroccan release of his second book, <i>Le rouge du tarbouche </i>(<i>The Red of the Fez</i>). During this book tour, he was interviewed by a reporter for the French-Arab journal <i>Tel Quel</i>, who was intrigued by the themes of homosexuality she saw in his writing. Taïa, who had not publically come out and feared the repercussions for himself and his family of doing so in a country where homosexuality continues to be outlawed, nevertheless consented to the interview and subsequent profile, “Homosexuel envers et contre tous” (&#8