Un soir de printemps, après avoir quitté le diner dont il est propriétaire, Driss Guerraoui, un Américain d'origine marocaine, est brutalement renversé par une voiture et meurt sur le coup. Le chauffeur du véhicule, lui, prend la fuite. La nouvelle de sa disparition est un choc pour sa famille, et...
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America--a Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record. In 1527, the conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez sailed from the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda with a cr...
When a young man is given the chance to rewrite his future, he doesn't realize the price he will pay for giving up his past... Casablanca's stinking alleys are the only home that nineteen-year-old Youssef El-Mekki has ever known. Raised by his mother in a one-room home, the film stars flickering ...
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In 1527 the Spanish conquistador P??nfilo de Narv??ez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, and claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, disease, starvation and fierce resistance from indig...