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C'est en participant avec sa fille à une manifestation contre un projet de loi sur l'immigration que Tahar Ben Jelloun a eu l'idée d'écrire ce texte. "Je suis parti du principe que la lutte contre le racisme commence avec l'éducation. On peut éduquer des enfants, pas des adultes." Questionné sur les multiples dimensions du racisme, l'auteur s'emploie à préciser le sens des mots et montre combien "on ne naît pas raciste mais on le devient". Si la lutte contre le racisme est un réflexe quotidien, elle passe d'abord par le langage, certaines expressions - rire jaune, tête de turc, travail d'arabe - véhiculant des préjugés xénophobes.Écrit sous forme de dialogue avec un souci pédagogique évident, ce livre s'adresse en priorité aux enfants entre huit et quatorze ans. Mais les adultes pourront le lire avec profit tant la confusion, les amalgames et les simplifications continuent de fleurir sur ce thème si sensible. Il est complété par les commentaires des élèves de collège que l'auteur a rencontrés suite à la parution de cet ouvrage.

In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique of contemporary Arab social customs and Islamic law. The Sand Child tells the story of a Moroccan father's effort to thwart the consequences of Islam's inheritance laws regarding female offspring. Already the father of seven daughters, Hajji Ahmed determines that his eighth child will be a male. Accordingly, the infant, a girl, is named Mohammed Ahmed and raised as a young man with all the privileges granted exclusively to men in traditional Arab-Islamic societies. As she matures, however, Ahmed's desire to have children marks the beginning of her sexual evolution, and as a woman named Zahra, Ahmed begins to explore her true sexual identity. Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun relates the extraordinary events of Ahmed's life through a professional storyteller and the listeners who have gathered in a Marrakesh market square in the 1950s to hear his tale. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction.

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2009-6-1 Pages:. 283 Tahar Ben Jelloun est n Fs en 1944 Il sinstalle Parisds 1971. publie ses pomes chez Maspero et voit son premier roman. Harrouda. dit par Maurice Nadeau aux ditions Denol en 1973.Pote et romancier. auteur notamment de Lenfant de sable et desa suite La nuit sacre. qui a obtenu le prix Goncourt en 1987. Tahar Ben Jelloun collabore rgulirement divers journauxeuropens. La Repubblica. LEspresso. Aftonbladet (Sude). souvent sur des questions lies au monde arabe et musulmanet limmigration; il est galement chroniqueur dans le quotidienbarcelonais La Vanguardia.

Winner of the 1987 Prix GoncourtThe Sacred Night continues the remarkable story Tahar Ben Jelloun began in The Sand Child. Mohammed Ahmed, a Moroccan girl raised as a boy in order to circumvent Islamic inheritance laws regarding female children, remains deeply conflicted about her identity. In a narrative that shifts in and out of reality moving between a mysterious present and a painful past, Ben Jelloun relates the events of Ahmed's adult life. Now calling herself Zahra, she renounces her role as only son and heir after her father's death and journeys through a dreamlike Moroccan landscape. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality.

Écrite au lendemain de l’attentat du 11 septembre 2001 contre le World Trade Center, la première édition de ce livre entendait répondre aux préoccupations et inquiétudes soulevées par cet événement chez les enfants. L’islam était alors objet de nombreux raccourcis. Tahar Ben Jelloun, avec ses talents de conteur et de pédagogue, s’attachait à expliquer l’islam le plus simplement possible, à raconter l’histoire d’une religion et d’une civilisation ayant apporté beaucoup à l’humanité.Dix ans plus tard, la perception de l’islam a évolué au fil des différents événements qui ont émaillé la décennie (de la guerre en Afghanistan au Printemps arabe). Si l’amalgame entre terrorisme et islam est moins fréquent, la compréhension de cette religion n’est pas pour autant plus claire, notamment en France, où elle est pourtant la deuxième pratiquée. L’islam reste trop souvent associé à l’interprétation qui en est faite par les fondamentalistes religieux.Si les propos échangés avec les enfants en 2001 gardent ainsi toute leur actualité, une mise à jour s’imposait pour montrer qu’une lecture intelligente du Coran existe et apporter un éclairage sur les grands débats qui ont marqué la dernière décennie.

An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France and winner of the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb. Ben Jelloun crafts a horrific real-life narrative into fiction to tell the appalling story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies under the most harrowing conditions. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan’s regime forced to open these desert hellholes. A handful of survivors—living cadavers who had shrunk by over a foot in height—emerged from the six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held underground for decades.Working closely with one of the survivors, Ben Jelloun eschewed the traditional novel format and wrote a book in the simplest of language, reaching always for the most basic of words, the most correct descriptions. The result is a shocking novel that explores both the limitlessness of inhumanity and the impossible endurance of the human will.

Tahar Ben Jelloun’s By Fire, the first fictional account published on the Arab Spring, reimagines the true-life self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, an event that has been credited with setting off the Tunisian revolt. The novella depicts the days leading up to Bouazizi’s self-immolation. Ben Jelloun’s deliberate ambiguity about the location of the story, set in an unnamed Islamic country, allows the reader to imagine the experiences and frustrations of other young men who have endured physical violence and persecution in places beyond Tunisia. The tale begins and ends in fire, and the imagery of burning frames the political accounts in The Spark, Ben Jelloun’s nonfiction writings on the Tunisian events that provide insight into the despotic regimes that drove Bouazizi to such despair. Rita S. Nezami’s elegant translations and critical introduction provide the reader with multiple strategies for approaching these potent texts.