Today, many North African writers use French rather than Arabic. The maghreb.net website includes a useful Introduction to the Francophone Literature of the Maghreb , with separate sections on the literature of Algeria and Tunisia . What Arabic literature tells us about the status women in Arab society. New York University. The triumph of the free market after the Cold War doesn't mean a free market in ideas.
Literature can still be a crime against the state - especially in the Arab world.
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