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Twelve stories about women’s lives in modern Morocco -
Muslim and Jewish Algerians fighting against French occupation -
A marginalised Algerian neighbourhood tells one last tale -
In this novel, the Saudi writer Omaima El Khamis tells a fascinating story that takes place during the 11th century -
Nine short stories that bring Virginia Woolf to Morocco -
The wear and tear on lives in colonial Tunisia -
A passionate soliloquy on Algeria and Algerians -
A trip across the Mediterranean of the 1930s -
The impact of conflict on everyday life in Libya -
Can philosophical enquiry bring us home to our Mother Earth? -
A Libyan love story that questions ideas of gender and masculinity -
A personal and political journey of a Tunisian militant -
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North Africa
The LEILA jury shines the spotlight on authors and works from North Africa that are little or unknown to European publishers, despite the remarkable quality of the texts presented here. This selection features works and writers from the 20th and 21st centuries, from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya.
