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.
Mokhtar Ghambou is a professor of humanities at Yale University. In addition to numerous publications and conference papers, Dr. Ghambou is currently working on a book entitled The Myth of the Nomad. His academic interests include multiculturalism, immigration, minority studies, and American cultural discourse
لا تسرج حتى تلجم و عقد عقدة صحيحة, و لا تكلم حتى تخمم لا تعود عليك فضيحة
Don't saddle the horse until you bridle it, and make sure you tighten the knot, and don't hasten to talk until you think it through least it brings a catastrophe upon you