Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fez on 1 December 1944. He studied and taught philosophy, and his participation in the students' revolt against police repression earned him, as a punishment, compulsory military service in 1966. Coming to literature in the orbit of the review Souffles, he settled in Paris in the early seventies to become a writer and journalist, and there defended a thesis in social psychiatry on the misery of Maghrebi immigrants.

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• NovelThe Sacred NightLa Nuit sacréeTahar Ben Jelloun · 1987Literature