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.
Tahar was born in Taza andmoved to Sale-Rabat where he was raised and earned his B.S. in Engineering Statistics and Applied Economics from the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics. He then went on to receive his MBA with an emphasis in Finance and International Business from Oklahoma City University, completing his thesis on Portfolio Risk Management.