MEMBER BLOG TAG: abdellah taia
| Sunday, May 1, 2011 8:34PM | | | | Abdellah Taļa & Self-Mythology | Tags: Abdellah Taļa, Salvation Army, French Literature, Moroccan Literature, gay literature, Edmund White, Semiotext(e), Tel Quel
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Abdellah Taïa is a writer who reminds us of art's power to transcend boundaries and break barriers. Sartre famously wrote that genius is what man invents when he is looking for a way out; Taïa shows that courage also happens.
Taïa is the first openly gay writer to be published in Morocco. In a conversation with American novelist Dale Peck this Sunday afternoon, Taïa described his "coming out" experience--which required an incredible leap of faith.
In January 2006, Taïa was doing an interview with Tel Quel, an important magazine in Morocco. During this Tel Quel interview (some of which you can read in this English Al-Bab interview and this French Tel Quel... | | | | | | | Thursday, April 28, 2011 3:07PM | | | | Revolutionaries in the Arab World | Tags: Abdelkader Benali, Rula Jebreal, Abdellah Taia, Alex Nunns, Issandr El Amrani, Jacob Weisberg, 92Y, Revolution, Arab World
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The optimism and energy of Wednesday night's "Revolutionaries in the Arab World" panel was contagious. The panelists included Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Dutch-Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, The Arabist founder Issandr El Amrani, Moroccan writer Abdellah Taia, and Alex Nunns, who recently published a book called Tweets from Tahrir. I'm not sure if they were friends before, but I got the sense that they had all become friends--the kind of friendship that happens after a long, difficult journey.
Among the anecdotes shared, all shocking and poignant--
Jebreal recalled her first interview with Qaddafi in 1991, when he compared himself to Saladin and quoted from his own "Green Book," a text where he confuses... | | | | | |
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