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.
Dr. Kaoutar El-Maghraoui is a Systems Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. Her research interests include operating systems, distributed and HPC systems, and the applications of analytics in systems research. She is currently leading a research project to apply IBM Watson cognitive technology to speed up problem diagnosis and resolution for IBM's flagship POWER systems. Kaoutar obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
I am so excited to have discovered Wafin and I would very much like to express my thanks to every person that invested the slightest form of energy into bringing this project to reality. Mustapha
I am so excited to have discovered Wafin and I would very much like to express my thanks to every person that invested the slightest form of energy into bringing this project to reality. 
Mustapha