The Punishment

by Tahar Ben Jelloun

An innocent man's gripping personal account of terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable twentieth-century despot

In 1967 Tahar Ben Jelloun, a peaceful young political protestor, was one of nearly a hundred other hapless men taken into punitive custody by the Moroccan army. It was a time of dangerous importance in Moroccan history, and they were treated with a chilling brutality that not all of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300243022
• ISBN13: 9780300243024
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.9"