Arabic

غبار ونجوم

Youssef Fadel

حياة الفراشات

English

A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me

مثل ملاك في الظلام

مصرع الآلهة

A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me

A Rare Blue Bird Flies with Me

فرح

قط أبيض جميل يسير معي

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Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Illustrated Books, and Manga

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Youssef Fadel (born 1949) is a Moroccan novelist and playwright.

 Early life 
He was born in Casablanca. 
He participated in leftist cultural and political circles starting in the 1960s and was imprisoned by the Moroccan government in the 1980s in the infamous Moulay al-Sheriff prison, during the notorious Years of Lead. He continues to invest political significance in his work today, stating in 2018 that "[t]o be a writer you have to be against the state, firstly...Against everything—the write...

Books by Youssef Fadel

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