...Bethany J. Osborne Talk of Darkness , Bouih Fatna El . Trans. and Intro. Kamal Mustapha Slyomovics Susan . Austin : Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas , 2008 . Pp. xviii, 100 . ISBN 978-0-292-71915-6 . Copyright © 2010 Association for Middle...

...Susan Slyomovics Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently...

... to trial aft er eight months of secret detention (Menebhi 1999:121-7). Th ese two aspects of Scheherazade—both Mernissi’s feminine nar- rator as well as Laabi’s tale of the abducted female—fi gure greatly in the life and works of Moroccan activist Fatna El Bouih (Marxist political...

... (Routledge, 2010). She has (co)-translated works by Assia Jebbar, Abdelfettah Kilito, and Leila Sebbar from French and works by Fatna El Bouih, Waleed Khleif, Muhammad Afif Matar, Abderrahman Abnoudy, as well as the Hilali epic, from Arabic. ...

... – 12 . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Kamal Mustapha , and Slyomovics Susan . 2008 . “ Translators’ Introduction .” In Talk of Darkness , by Fatna El Bouih, ix–xv. Austin : University of Texas Press . Kingdom of Morocco, Justice and Reconciliation Commission...

... Derb Moulay Cherif, the site of Morocco’s infamous secret prison and torture centre in the city of Casablanca, into a museum and a community center. Together with Fatna El Bouih, a well-known former political prisoner, Slyomovics envisages possibilities for a future project...