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Elegant and sensitive, racism explained to my daughter is for all parents and educators who have struggled to engage their children in discussions of this complex issue. Thank you for watching florent godard ismail hrimech. She argues that the quran supports equal spousal and marital rights and does not differentiate among sex and gender. His first publications, scars of the sun and the camels speech, were selections of poems where he beams an original writing that mixes maghreb legends with sensitive. In an accessible questionandanswer format, islam explained clarifies the main tenets of islam, the major landmarks in islamic history, and the current politics of islamic fundamentalism. Tahar ben jelloun, author, tahar ben jelloun, author. He attended a bilingual frenchmoroccan primary school and in 1955, his parents moved to tangier. Sexuality and spirituality of moroccan diaspora in the works of tahar ben jelloun article pdf available january 20 with 103 reads how we measure reads.
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