Moroccan Fiction

In this moving fictional treatment of a Muslim woman's life, a personal and family crisis impells the heroine to reexamine traditional cultural attitudes toward women. Cast out and divorced by her husband, she finds herself in a strange new world. Both obstacles and support systems change as she actively participates in the struggle for Moroccan independence from France.

Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the Guardian, Variety, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas...

11th-century North Africa. Kella is a girl disguised as a boy, traveling the trade routes and beating all comers in the camel races. When her true identity is revealed, she is sent home to the family desert camp to be taught women’s skills. But Kella yearns for her freedom and the excitement of life on the road, and when a mighty army sets out on a holy mission, she risks marriage to its general, Yusuf. While Yusuf conquers the whole of North Africa, Kella finds herself a rival to his infamous queen consort, Zaynab, a powerful and jealous woman.

Dr. Jules Marston, a Jewish physicist‐theologian specializing in fractal mathematics and blockchain cosmology, has long felt a “fractal dissonance” in his solitary pursuit of truth. His life shifts dramatically when he encounters Alia ibn Sulaiman, a Sicilian‐Catholic and Moroccan‐Sufi artist whose intuitive practice of spiral mandalas and cross‐cultural rituals complements his analytical foundation. Guided by Sally—an AI programmed with sacred numerology and interfaith wisdom—their chance meeting in Florence sparks a powerful “fractal resonance.” Together, they blend ...

"Another Charles Cumming triumph.” —Jason Matthews, bestselling author of The Kremlin's Candidate In this gripping contemporary thriller, a successful spy novelist is drawn into a real-life espionage plot when he’s ordered to find a mysterious fugitive on the alluring but deadly streets of...

“Like Jane Austen [Diane Johnston] steps out of the frame to anatomize her characters with sudden insight; like Virginia Woolf she creeps back in to record their inappropriate thoughts–and their consternation at having them.” –Newsweek Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to...

A false prophecy leads to the rise of a great empire...and a dangerous queen. Eleventh century North Africa. In an attempt to change her destiny, love-struck Zaynab makes a false prophecy: That she is destined to marry a man who will create an empire. Although her plan backfires, Zaynab’s intelligence, beauty, and ambition leads to four marriages, each lifting her status higher. When Zaynab becomes the queen of Yusuf bin Tashfin, leader of the Almoravid army creating an empire stretching across North Africa and Spain, her status finally seems secured.

Khadija is packing up her home of fifty years. In her box of special belongings are the last reminders she has of her son Ahmed, missing for more than twenty years. Her belongings take her back to her village childhood, her marriage and move to Marrakesh, and the birth of Ahmed when she was just...

Our young hero is fantasizing about the two Swedish college girls he is dancing with at a discotheque in Barcelona, but they don't seem interested in him as anything more than a friend. No, they are much more interested in someone else they see on the dance floor. When turns his head and sees the hot, young Moroccan stud they are lusting after, he understands why. With the body of a professional athlete and the face of a fashion model, his magnetism is irresistible. Yes, the two Swedish college girls are more interested in the handsome Moroccan stud than they are in our cute American ...

"The book unravels from one thread and, symptomatically, we pass through variations on a theme: the Moroccan as a stranger, who never truly manages to integrate and lives this estrangement as a visible scar for all to see: in his name, his accent, his economic failure, or his economic success, in every context he is the Moroccan. Benarrochdoes not decide whose story it is, until the point where he raises a possibility, through one of the heroes, perhaps himself, to propose a scenario for a telenovela about Moroccans in Israel. Except that here Benarroch reaches the impossibility of writing ...

The city of Kairouan in Tunisia, 1020. Hela has powers too strong for a child - both to feel the pain of those around her and to heal them. But when she is given a mysterious cup by a slave woman, its powers overtake her life, forcing her into a vow she cannot hope to keep. Trapped by her vow, Hela loses one chance after another to love and be loved. Meanwhile, in her household, a child is growing into a woman who will become famous throughout the Muslim world.

Eleventh century, Northern Spain. Isabella has been a nun in the Christian kingdom of Galicia since she was a child, a gifted herbalist leading a quiet and spiritual life, devoted to God. But on a rare journey outside of the convent, she is taken by Viking raiders and sold to Morocco as a slave. Cruelly treated by her first owner, salvation comes from an unlikely source: Yusuf bin Tashfin, leader of a vast Muslim army intent on conquering all of North Africa. Isabella must struggle not only to survive her new life but to hold true to her faith, which is tested by great dangers...

The epic of the Moroccan contingent in the Holy Land. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to From Rabat to Jerusalem: The Epic of the Moroccan Contingent in the Holy Land and experience the compelling world of religious historical fiction.

Publicada en hebreo, español, inglés y francés "Lucena" es una de las obras más importantes de Mois Benarroch y de la literatura sefardí actual. Lucena, un anciano que se acerca a la edad de mil años y sabe que va a morir, intenta transferir su legado a su descendiente adolescente Samuel, nacido en Tetuán y exiliado con su familia en Málaga. Samuel oye la mezcla de historia sefardí que le cuenta Lucena y que confunde musulmanes con cristianos y guerras con siglos. No cree lo que cuenta el anciano y averigua los detalles con sus padres que no pueden comprender de dónde llegan ...

Othello, by William Shakespeare, is adapted in a Moroccan style by David Serero. Starring David Serero as Othello.

Join Zikora as she takes a magical tour on her extraordinary Moroccan rug to see a bit of the African continent. Inspired by Grandpa Amar’s African stories, Zikora sees firsthand and learns more about what Grandpa read to her. You too have the opportunity to go on an African tour like Zikora did. All you need to do is listen, close your eyes, and put your imagination to work with Zikora’s Moroccan Rug. There is so much to see and learn about Africa.

When the father of the Benzimra family dies, he leaves a will informing his family of an illegitimate son he fathered with a Muslim woman in Morocco. To receive the inheritance, the family is instructed do everything possible to find that son. They embark on a journey to Tetouan, Morocco, from places as far-flung as Jerusalem, Madrid, New York and Paris. They are in search of their lost brother; a journey that will bring them face-to-face with their Moroccan roots and with their Judaism, a journey that will force them to think about their identities. After this experience they will no ...