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.
Yasmine Hasnaoui was born in 1979 in Marrakech, Morocco. In 2002 she earned her BA in English Literature at Hassan II faculty in Mohammedia.In 2000 she represented Morocco at the English Public Speaking Union in London where her main theme was Moneys impact on the world. Right after getting her BA in 2002 She prepared the CELTA certificate (Certificate of English Language to Adults) through Cambridge University. She had a nine months theoritical training in Human Resources at the Management Business School in Mohammedia .