A new novel entitled "A Moroccan in Palestine" by Novelist and Author Ahmed el-Madini has been recently released by the Arab Institute for Research & Publishing. The book comprises 208 pages, and won the Ibn Battuta Award for the contemporary journey.
According to the award committee, the book features the memoirs of a Moroccan novelist, author, and traveler during three visits he made to the liberated part of Palestine governed by the Palestinian Authority. The visits were made in the spring, and precisely in April of 2014, 2016, and 2017. The author admits that one of his memoirs' goals is to "highlight a picture that he would have never seen without making these visits."
The committee explained that Madini used his memoirs to depict scenes and pictures, and write feedbacks about Palestine and Palestinians with a simple and deep literary style. The Moroccan novelist said he wrote to describe his surprise "not by the weirdness of the pictures he saw, but by their familiarity and unique beauty, and also to talk about the place and the people connected to its history."
