Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives

Reading Mohamed Choukri's Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature.

Jonas Elbousty holds an MPhil and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He teaches at Yale University where he is the Director of Undergraduate Studies. His publications include Vitality and Dynamism (Leiden University Press, 2015), Advanced Arabic Literary Reader (Routledge Press, 2016), Media Arabic (Routledge Press, 2021), Aswat Muasira (Georgetown University Press, 2023), Tales of Tangier (Yale University Press, 2023), and two forthcoming books, Screams of War (Seagull books 2024) and Faces (Georgetown University Press, 2024) Roger Allen retired in June 2011 after serving for 43 years as Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009-10 he was President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. He is the author of numerous studies in book and article form devoted to the Arabic literary tradition and is also a translator of numerous contributions to the tradition of both modern and pre-modern Arabic narrative.

Introduction Jonas Elbousty & Roger Allen Mohamed Choukri's Short Stories: Flower Crazy and The Tent Jonas Elbousty Moroccan Literary History and Muhammad Shukr- Roger Allen Translation and Cultural Appropriation: Paul Bowles' Translation of Mohamed Choukri's al-Khubz al---f- Qussay Al-Attabi Translating Mohamed Choukri: Between Manipulation and Rewriting Hanan Bennoudi Education as Paradox and Possibility in Mohammed Choukri's novel Streetwise (1992) Touria Khannous Negotiating Space: Reclaiming the Spatial Gender Boundaries of Tangier in Müammad Shukr-'s Autobiographical Novel Wuj-h (Faces) mbarek sryfi Sex Work was Hiring: Disguised Sociopolitical Critique in For Bread Alone and Zifz-f's The Woman and the Rose Ian Campbell Mohamed Choukri: When literature Offers biting Social Critique Anouar El Younssi The Poetics of Atheism: How Mohamed Choukri Resists Ideological Appropriation Natalie Khazaal Tyranny Across Choukri and Kafka: Systems of Power Within the Father Mustafa Zewar