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An Arab Melancholia is a sweetly written exposition of being gay in the Arab world. Slima reunites with Jallal in Cairo but also meets Mauod, a Muslim convert from Belgium. When he is 13, his mother is taken by the secret police, who rape and torture her for three years, years that Jallal spends in Cairo. Jallal’s mother, Slima, was abandoned as a child and raised by Saâdia Tadlaoui-an introductrice, or a woman “who helps couples unite on their wedding night.” Slima became a prostitute, and as a boy in Salé, Morocco, Jallal is raped by some of Slima’s customers. Moroccan filmmaker and author Taïa ( An Arab Melancholia) uses monologues to describe the passions and torments of the brief life of Jallal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL1963296W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.83 Pages 602 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0747258937 As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. 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