French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani on feminism & freedom
Leïla Slimani, a Moroccan-French novelist and public intellectual, discusses how her family’s multigenerational history under colonial and post-colonial Morocco informs her literary trilogy, culminating in I'll Take the Fire. Her work explores the intersections of identity, gender, class,
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