My grandma used to say to my cousin that looking out the window is not something ladies should do. At age 10 living in Morocco, I thought on the other…
Anas Chariai21 July 2017
I was born in an all-female household, in a house on the hills of rural Morocco. A modest pink republic, led by my grandma. I was always around women: my…
Anas Chariai14 May 2017
Global data on HIV spread are clear: the virus is much less diffused in Arab countries than in the rest of the planet. But in these countries, men who have…
Michele Benini4 May 2015
Someone acclaims Hicham Tahir, someone else attacks him: this young Moroccan writer, 24 years old, has recently published his first personal collection of short stories, "Jaabouq" (Casa Express 2013, 128…
Michele Benini16 October 2013
His pseudonym is, by itself, an artistic manifesto: 2Fik seems strange, but, read in English, has the absolutely common sound of the "real" name, Toufik, of this photographer. With a…
Pier Cesare Notaro2 June 2013
God loves lesbians, gays and transgenders. This is a certainty for the imam Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, founder of the first inclusive mosque in Europe and of association Homosexual Muslims of France and…
Pier Cesare Notaro20 May 2013
