I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
Chakib Chraibi is a Professor of Computer Science at Barry University, Miami Shores, FL, USA. He has received a Doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the University of Bordeaux (France) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Binghamton (USA). He brings significant experience in industry to academia. His research interests are real-time computer systems and computer networks.