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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/monsters-like-us-interview-abdellah-taia/"></div><p><em>Abdellah Taïa was born in a public library and grew up in Salé, the poorer, twin city that sits across the Bou Regreg River from Rabat. Though he now resides in France and hasn’t lived in Morocco for almost 20 years, it still figures largely in his fiction, which is often about “that specific time at the beginning of adolescence when […] you see what they want you to be, and how you are going to escape it.” </em> <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/monsters-like-us-interview-abdellah-taia/#more-2919" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Our Monsters Are Like Us: An Interview with Abdellah Taïa

Frankenstein in Baghdad

<strong>Sam Metz is a Southern California-based journalist who, in the past, spent two years reporting from Morocco. You can follow him on Twitter at @metzsam.</strong>

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Fiction of Dystopian Times: Ahmed Saadawi’s “Frankenstein in Baghdad”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">— Fernando Pessoa, <em>The Book of Disquiet</em></p>

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Sam Metz is a Southern California-based journalist who, in the past, spent two years reporting from Morocco. You can follow him on Twitter at @metzsam.