Fatima, also spelled Fatimah, is a feminine given name of Arabic origin used throughout the Muslim world. Several relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad had the name, including his daughter Fatima as the most famous one. The literal meaning of the name is one who weans an infant or one who abstains.
Mohammed al-Khamis bin Yusef bin Hassan al-Alawi, better known simply Mohammed V, was the last Sultan of Morocco from 1927 to 1953 and from 1955 to 1957, and first King of Morocco from 1957 to 1961. A member of the 'Alawi dynasty, he played an instrumental role in securing the independence of Morocco from France and Spain.
The StoryTeller is a live-action/puppet television series that originally aired in 1987 and which was created and produced by Jim Henson.
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Le Roman de Silence is an octosyllabic verse Old French roman in the Picard dialect, dated to the first half of the 13th century. It is the only work attributed to Heldris de Cornuälle. Due to the text's late discovery and editing in 1927 and 1978, as well as its discussion of nature vs. nurture, transvestitism, sex and gender, and gender roles, the roman has attracted considerable interest both from medievalists and the field of Anglo-American gender studies.
Linda Coverdale is a literary translator from French. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and has a Ph.D in French Literature. She has translated into English more than 60 works by such authors as Roland Barthes, Emmanuel Carrère, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, Annie Ernaux, Sébastien Japrisot, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Philippe Labro, Yann Queffélec, Jorge Semprún, Lyonel Trouillot, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Hartzfeld, Sylvain Tesson and Marguerite Duras.
The Years of Lead was a period of the rule of King Hassan II of Morocco, from roughly the 1960s through the 1980s, marked by state violence and repression against political dissidents and democracy activists.
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood is a novel by Fatima Mernissi; the UK title has been The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood. It describes her fictionalised youth in a Moroccan harem during the 1940s and explores the themes of Islamic feminism, Arab nationalism, French colonialism and the clash between the traditional and the modern. It is a fictional work, although this fact is only noted in the French version, not the English.
La Boîte à merveilles is an autobiographical 1954 novel by Moroccan writer Ahmed Sefrioui.
Zahra is a female given name of Arabic origin. It means ‘beautiful, bright, shining and brilliant’. The name became popularized as a result of being the name of Muhammad’s daughter, Fatimah al-Zahra.
Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra was the eldest daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco and his first wife, Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun.
The Absent's Prayer is a 1995 Moroccan film. It is an adaptation by director Hamid Bénani, of the novel of the same name by Tahar Ben Jelloun.
Marie-Louise Belarbi was a French-Moroccan bookseller, publisher, editor, and writer. Born in France, she spent most of her life in Morocco, where she established a popular bookstore, Carrefour des Livres, as well as a publishing house for French, Moroccan and Maghreb literature. She published works by several notable writers, including Françoise Sagan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Driss Chraïbi, Abdellah Taïa and others. She also wrote two books, a novel and a memoir. In 2001, she was awarded the distinction of an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to publishing and literature.
For Bread Alone is a controversial autobiographical work by Mohammed Choukri. It was written in Arabic in 1972 and translated into English by Paul Bowles in 1973. In 1980, it was published in French as Le Pain Nu in a translation by Tahar Ben Jelloun. The novel has been translated into 39 foreign languages and adapted into a French graphic novel by Abdelaziz Mouride.
Princess Lalla Fatima bint Suleiman, was an XVIIIth century Alawi Princess. She was one of the wives of Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah, and the mother of Sultan Moulay Hisham.
A Moroccan concept known as the Halqa is people's theater, with the Helayqi positioned in the center of the audience circle. This phrase has long been linked to the richness of Moroccan storytelling, dancing, singing, and music as intangible cultural assets.[1]
Princess Lalla Hanila bint Mamoun was the first wife of Mohammed V of Morocco, who reigned from 1927 to 1961. Lalla Hanila is the mother of Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra.
The Sacred Night is a novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun published in 1987. It won the 1987 Goncourt Prize. This novel is a sequel The Sand Child published in 1985.
