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Corruptionby Carol Volk, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 1565842952 (1-56584-295-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Corruptionby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Carol VolkISBN 1565842960 (1-56584-296-0)
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French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrantsby Barbara Bray, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0231113765 (0-231-11376-5)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Hospitality: Racism and North African Immigrants'Book summary:The award-winning novelist and author of the international bestseller Racism Explained to My Daughter uses his own experience to illuminate the experience of the Other in his adopted land -- and everywhere. A Moroccan who emigrated to France in 1971, Tahar Ben Jelloun draws upon his own encounters with racism along with his insights as a practicing psychologist and gifted novelist to elucidate the racial divisions that plague contemporary society. In a modern France where openly racist leaders such as National Front spokesman Jean-Marie Le Pen have made significant strides toward broad popular acceptance, Ben Jelloun's book is more topical now than ever. His profound and compelling appeal for tolerance -- in both public discourse and the law -- is a passionate yet reasoned argument that racism simply does not make sense in the multicultural world of today.
French Hospitality confronts issues of international resonance: the relationship of a formerly colonized people to their onetime colonizers, the encounter between Islam and the modern Judeo-Christian West, and the status of the non-European minorities in Europe today. Underlying these issues is a heartfelt nostalgia for simple, traditional North African hospitality as practiced since time immemorial by a relatively poor and unsophisticated society. Ben Jelloun supplements this rather noble ideal of generosity and welcoming by borrowing the philosophical concept of hospitality -- the opening of oneself to another -- from the works of Emmanuel Lévinas and Jacques Derrida in order to illustrate the moral conception of a nation's unconditional acceptance of foreigners. Isn't the belief in welcoming strangers a fundamental mark of civilization? In a political climate where increasingly repressive immigration laws are a national trend as well as an international phenomenon, he contends, it is not surprising that racism has gained a foothold. Most hurt by racist polemic and politics, he points out, are children of immigrants -- born in France, their memories are those of the French people, and they deserve to be treated with the full respect afforded to any citizen.
With his elegant and imaginative prose, Ben Jelloun shows us both racism's face and the immigrant's heartbreak; but he also evokes the wind of freedom and the ideal of hospitality, and with this gesture offers a kind of hope in extricating ourselves from racism's recidivist incoherencies.
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The Italiansby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Bruno BarbeyISBN 0810905582 (0-8109-0558-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Italians'Book summary:In the early 1960s, internationally acclaimed photographer Bruno Barbey sought to capture with his camera the spirit of Italy. Here, his endearing modern commedia dell'arte of beggars, priests, nuns, carabinieri, prostitutes, and mafiosi archetypal figures whose exotic charms helped to make the films of Pasolini, Visconti, and Fellini so popularjoin with the subtle pen of best-selling novelist and essayist Tahar Ben Jelloun to reveal the essence of Italy in that period. The result is an evocative word-and-picture portrayal of the Italians. [via]
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The Last Friendby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Hazel Rowley, Kevin Michel CapeISBN 0143038486 (0-14-303848-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Morocco : Sahara to the Seaby Mary Cross, Paul Bowles, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0789200309 (0-7892-0030-9)
Hardcover, Abbeville Press, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morocco : Sahara to the Sea'Book summary:For three years, photographer Mary Cross travelled throughout Morocco, from the Sahara Desert in the south to the Rif Mountains in the north, visiting large cities, small villages, and the country's little-known, inaccessible regions. Gathered in this volume is a selection of her photographs, which seek to capture Morocco in all its remoteness, beauty and mystery. From mountain chasms to desert oases, from "kasbahs" to "souks", Cross chooses subjects in which history impinges on the present, architecture that gives expression to the country's past, and natural surroundings that offer a continuing commentary on the lives of the people within the landscape. [via]
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Papa, Que Es El Racismoby Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0613712595 (0-613-71259-5)
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Racism Explained to My Daughterby Tahar Ben JellounISBN 156584534X (1-56584-534-X)
Hardcover, New Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Racism Explained to My Daughter'Book summary:In the tradition of Marion Wright Edelman's "The Measure of Our Success," a best-selling author speaks frankly with his daughter about racism. A runaway best-seller in Europe, Tahar Ben Jelloun's Racism Explained to My Daughter has been translated into more than a dozen languages and sold more than 300,000 copies. Writing in response to his ten-year-old daughter's questions about racism, the prize-winning author has created a unique and compelling dialogue, speaking to racism as a problem not only in France, but around the world. Elegant and sensitive, "deceptively simple" (New York Times), Racism Explained to My Daughter is for all parents who have struggled to engage their children in discussion of this complex issue. It also includes personal essays from four leading U.S. writers who are also parents. [via]
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Sacred Nightby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Alan SheridanISBN 0345364171 (0-345-36417-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Sacred Nightby Alan Sheridan, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0801864410 (0-8018-6441-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Sand Childby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Alan SheridanISBN 0704326884 (0-7043-2688-4)
Hardcover, Quartet Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sand Child'Book summary:In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.
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The Sand Childby Alan Sheridan, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0801864402 (0-8018-6440-2)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sand Child'Book summary:In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.
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Silent Day in Tangierby Tahar Ben Jelloun , D. LobdellISBN 0704327937 (0-7043-2793-7)
Hardcover, Quartet Books, Limited
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State of Absenceby James Kirkup, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0704370832 (0-7043-7083-2)
Softcover, Quartet Books
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This Blinding Absence of Lightby Tahar Ben JellounISBN 0141022825 (0-14-102282-5)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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This Blinding Absence of Lightby Linda Coverdale, Tahar Ben JellounISBN 1565847237 (1-56584-723-7)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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With Downcast Eyesby Tahar Ben Jelloun , Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0316460591 (0-316-46059-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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El Islam Explicado a Nuestros Hijosby Tahar Ben JellounISBN 1417751533 (1-4177-5153-3)
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