Political Malaise and the New Arabic Noir

摘要: Morocco's experience of political transition and liberalization in the mid-1990s spawned new types fiction country. The most important these from a standpoint was Arabic police novel, first its kind Middle East or North Africa. At first, this genre expressed optimism enthusiasm for era Morocco, presenting highly sympathetic detective who symbolized respect rule law human rights. By 2002, however, exuberance turned to despair, as old forms brutality corruption returned. This article examines how recent Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Bled Dry , breaks with previous novels by adopting hard-boiled noir style express profound sense hopelessness disillusionment felt across In particular, traces novel boldly depicts graphic prostitution, filthy shantytowns, radical Islam, corrupt cops, linking desperation current-day Casablanca exploitation malaise era.