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About the Author
Mohamed Choukri is one of North Africa's most controversial and widely read authors. At the age of twenty he decided to learn to read and write classical Arabic. He went on to become a teacher and writer, finally being awarded the chair of Arabic Literature at Ibn Batuta College in Tangier.

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Book Info

978-1-84659-027-6
Fiction
17 May 2007
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
164 pages
£9.99

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Reviews
'Choukri is a powerful teller of stories. His telling of oppression is vivid and remarkable.'
Morning Star

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Excerpts
Reading and writing had become a sleeping and waking obsession with me. Sometimes I imagined myself as a big letter or as a pen. On occasion I didn't have the price of a new exercise book, so I picked up paper off the street and wrote my lessons on that.

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