During Morocco's Years of Lead in the 1970s and 1980s, Mouline and Leila are imprisoned for their politicial activities. Moving between past and present, between experiences lived inside the prison cell and outside it, in the torture chamber and the judicial system, and the challenges and resistance in lucid, often searing detail, and reassess their political engagements and the movements in which they are involved.
Written with compassion and insight, History of Ash speaks to human brutality, resilience, and the power of the human spirit. It succeeds in both documenting the prison experience and humanizing it, while utlimately holding out the promise of redemption through a new generation.
Über die Autorin / über den Autor:Khadija Marouazi is a professor of literature at Ibn Tofaïl University in Kenitra, Morocco, and a human rights activist. She is a member of the scientific committee for the Moroccan magazine Dafatir al-sijin (Prisoner's Notebooks), and the general secretary and founding member of the organization al-Wasit min Ajl al-Dimugrativa (The Mediator for Democracy and Human Rights). History of Ash is her first novel.
Alexander E. Elinson is associate professor of Arabic and head of the Arabic program at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the translator of A Beautiful White Cat Walks with Me and A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me by Youssef Fadel, and Hot Maroc by Yassin Adnan.
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