Mohamed Choukri's Literary Journey
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Mohamed Choukri (1935–2003), who did not learn to read or write until the age of twenty, is a key contrarian voice in twentieth-century Arabic literature.
Joined July 2024
RT @JElbousty: Mohamed Choukri’s final visit to his birthplace:. “In 1993 I visited Nador. I hadn’t been there for over half a century, sin….
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RT @JElbousty: Grateful to Ursula Lindsay for her fascinating piece on Mohamed Choukri in @nybooks, where she reviews both Tales of Tangi….
nybooks.com
The Moroccan writer's works are a bracing corrective to the myth of his city as a glamorous, bohemian playground.
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RT @khalidlym: The new issue of the journal "Présence Africaine" @PAEditions is dedicated to Senegalese film director and writer Ousmane Se….
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RT @JElbousty: يونس البستي لـ"المجلة": شكري فتح السرد العربي على المكبوتات .I was interviewed by Osama Esber, a pro….
majalla.com
يتزامن صدور الترجمة الإنكليزية لرواية "وجوه" للكاتب المغربي الراحل محمد شكري مع الذكرى الحادية والعشرين لرحيله، في 15 نوفمبر، وهي الجزء الثالث من السيرة الذاتية الروائية للكاتب.
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RT @ShadyQubaty: Beautiful morning @Yale catching up with my dear Professor, @JElbousty, to celebrate the launch of his seminal translation….
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RT @khalidlym: "Une bibliothèque « poreu[se] à tous les souffles du monde », pour paraphraser #Césaire" - Claire Riffard (ITEM,CNRS) dans @….
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Analyse du contenu des bibliothèques personnelles du poète-président Léopold Sédar Senghor.
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"Many people are shocked by Choukri’s graphic depictions, but history will vindicate him as the most far-seeing writer of his generation. He made his life an open book and held it as a mirror to our own demons." #tingismagazine.
tingismagazine.com
I have just learned about the death of my favorite Moroccan writer at the age of 63. Endowed with a fierce, subversive spirit, raised in the halls of misery and...
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RT @LibraryArabLit: “The untranslatable is the space where the differences between languages and cultures come to the surface. This does no….
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"He gives Genet an introduction to Russian literature;. Both authors seem to enjoy the literary back-and-forth, but it’s Choukri who’s translating for Genet, bringing him books, and waiting in the café hoping he’ll come back.".
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Expats and locals debate how to live in a literary destination that was already a home before the writers came to town.
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RT @eric_calderwood: Mark your calendars! On October 23, Moroccan novelist, poet, and cultural critic @yassinadnan1 (the author of the crit….
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RT @arablit: Congratulations to Stella + @sawadhussain (Edo's Souls), Lena + Nadiyah and Anam (Yoghurt and Jam), and all.
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RT @worldlittoday: “The possibility of publishing a translation of a work of modern Arabic literature is now more difficult than it has eve….
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RT @JElbousty: So grateful to these colleagues for their pre-publication reviews of Faces. @Georgetown_UP
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RT @SoufflesMonde: Nadia Guessous is an Associate Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at Colorado College. Her piece for our latest ro….
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