Talk of Darkness (Paperback)

Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While imprisoned, she helped organize a hunger strike, completed her undergraduate degree in sociology, and began work on a Master x2019;s degree. Beginning with the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened political tension of the 1970s, Talk of Darkness tells the true story of one woman x2019;s struggle to secure political prisoners x2019; rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment. Poetically rendered from Arabic into English by Mustapha Kamal and Susan Slyomovics, Fatna El Bouih x2019;s memoir exposes the techniques of state-instigated x201C;disappearance x201D; in Morocco and condemns the lack of laws to protect prisoners x2019; basic human rights.