Read Maya Jaggi’s interview with poet Tahar Ben Jelloun, “brought up in Morocco,” imprisoned, and living in exile in Paris since 1971.
“The young Moroccan composed his first poems, in French, during those 18 months in army camp, after his arrest in 1966 for taking part in student demonstrations in Casablanca. The experience was pivotal.” – from “Voice of the Maghreb,” by Maya Jaggi, The Guardian
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