Talk of Darkness

<p>Fatna 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.</p> <p>Beginning with the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened political tension of the 1970s <i>Talk of Darkness</i> tells the true story of one woman's struggle to secure political prisoners' rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment.</p> <p>Poetically 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.</p>