Writing To Remember
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This episode is almost entirely dedicated to the work of the Moroccan film-maker, novelist, artist, and poet Ahmed Bouanani \\u2013 much of which has yet to be released, and much of which was censored or destroyed in his own life.
Show notes
Bouanani\\u2019s cult-classic novel L\\u2019h\\xf4pital was re-published in 2012 by DK Editions in Morocco and Editions Verdier in France. Muhammad al-Khudairi\\u2019s Arabic translation was published in 2016. Two of Bounanai\\u2019s books have been released this year in English translation: The Shutters (translated by Emma Ramadan) and The Hospital (translated by Lara Vergnaud), both from New Directions Press.
A fragment of Bouanani\\u2019s filmwork can be seen online: his film about Casablanca in the 1960s, \\u201c6 et 12\\u201d, is on YouTube, as is a section of As-Sarab / Mirage. The film-maker Ali Essafi\\u2019s documentary about Bouanani is entitled Crossing the Seventh Gate.
Touda Bouanani, Ahmed Bouanani\\u2019s daughter and a visual artist, has conserved his work and featured it in her own.
Ursula\\u2019s piece on Bouanani in the New York Review of Books is unfortunately pay-walled now.
Marcia should have a piece about the discovery of Naguib Mahfouz\\u2019s \\u201clost\\u201d manuscript, set to be published December 11 by Dar al-Saqi in Lebanon, forthcoming soon in LitHub. An extended Q&A with translator Roger Allen, agent Yasmina Jraissati, and manuscript-discoverer Mohamed Shoair will follow on ArabLit. The English translation of what\\u2019s being called The Whisper of Stars is forthcoming from Saqi Books in 2019.
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