{"product_id":"talk-of-darkness-paperback-softback-9780292719156","title":"Talk of Darkness (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292719156","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTalk of Darkness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFatna El Bouih (Author), Mustapha Kamal (Translated by), Susan Slyomovics (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292719156\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e120 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.141 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While imprisoned, she helped organize a hunger strike, completed her undergraduate degree in sociology, and began work on a Master's degree.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened political tension of the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eTalk of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e tells the true story of one woman's struggle to secure political prisoners' rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoetically rendered from Arabic into English by Mustapha Kamal and Susan Slyomovics, Fatna El Bouih's memoir exposes the techniques of state-instigated \"disappearance\" in Morocco and condemns the lack of laws to protect prisoners' basic human rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor's Dedication\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslators' Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChronology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: \"\u003cbr\u003eOr the Narrative of Suffering\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes Prison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: \"\u003cbr\u003eImposed Violence\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou Prison\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 11. Trial Day\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 12. The Inseparable Twosome\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 13. An Incredible Visit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 14. \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and Happiness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free Person\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed Grief\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman Prisoner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without Spring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi Kacem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolice Stations: Testimony of Widad Bouab\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers:\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTestimony of Latifa Jbabdi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ctr for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739523379480,"sku":"9780292719156","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/talk-of-darkness-paperback-softback-9780292719156","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}