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Articles by Meryem Alaoui
‘De la boca del caballo sale la verdad’ o cómo ganarse la vida en el Marruecos actual
2010 JUNIO Casablanca, viernes 11 Cuando acabo la faena, no me entretengo. Me bajo la chilaba, aliso alguna arruga y espero. A que el tío de turno se cierre la bragueta o se eche un cigarrito. Y a que se largue para que yo regrese a mi esquina en la calle y trinque a otro. Fue lo primero que dije a Halima cuando llegó hace una semana. Justo esa frase. El día que la trajo Hussein, me pidió que le enseñase dos o tres cosas del oficio, aclarándome que acababa de salir de la cárcel.
Straight From the Horse’s Mouth and 9 Other Reads I Can’t Get Out of My Head
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Meryem Alaoui: A proposition
“This book is so good. It carries you so quickly from despair to roaring laughter and back again. I would happily live in any world Alaoui would like to create for us.” Daisy Johnson That’s when she arrives. A skinny stick slides her head through the curtain and opens it with a fluid movement. A skinny stick with long disheveled hair at the end. Hamid told me she was the neighbor’s niece but I hadn’t imagined she would be so young.
STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
The time is the not-so-distant future, when the US's spiraling social freedoms have finally called down a reaction, an Iranian-style repressive "monotheocracy" calling itself the Republic of Gilead—a Bible-thumping, racist, capital-punishing, and misogynistic rule that would do away with pleasure altogether were it not for one thing: that the Gileadan women, pure and true (as opposed to all the nonbelieving women, those who've ever been adulterous or married more than once), are found rarely...
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
A Novel by Meryem Alaoui Translated by Emma Ramadan This hilarious, colorful portrait of a sex worker navigating life in modern Morocco introduces a promising new literary voice. Thirty-four-year-old prostitute Jmiaa reflects on the bustling world around her with a brutal honesty, but also a quick wit that cuts through the drudgery.
Mon corps dans le miroir, et le reflet d’un flou générationnel
Tribune. Samedi dernier, le miroir m’a renvoyé une poche sous l’œil gauche. Je l’ai mise sur le compte de la soirée de la veille. Le lendemain, le traître a récidivé. Un regard arrangeant plus tard et j’ai conclu que je n’avais pas encore récupéré. Mais le troisième jour, rebelote. Et me voilà devant l’inéluctable, que j’avais traité de haut avant d’y être : mon corps change. Non, il ne change pas, il prend de l’âge. Car en quarante-quatre ans, il a changé mille fois.
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