Novelist Youssef el Maimouni, cartoonist and illustrator Nadia Hafid and rapper and writer Miss Raisa, all Spaniards of Moroccan origin, but of different generations and with different experiences of immigration, open up.
Youssef el Maimouni, 42, from Ksar el Kebir, arrived in Coma-ruga (Tarragona) before the age of one month. Rapper Miss Raisa, 27, from Tangier, arrived in Barcelona in 2004. Nadia Hafid, 33, lives in Terrassa in Catalonia. It is difficult for these three Spaniards of (…)
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Spanish-Moroccan Voices: Identity and Integration in Modern Spain
23 January 2023, by Prince -
Moroccan-Born Author Tackles Immigration and Identity in New Novel
1 February 2023, by PrinceMoroccan-born author Youssef El Maimouni has just published his second novel, "Nadie salva a las rosas" (Editorial Roca), which he calls the "Trilogy of Discrimination".
In this work, El Maimouni, a social worker for minors in Barcelona, paints the different realities related to immigration, identity, and social integration. "The children, future migrants in Europe..., [...] are treated as human waste. A scourge for a country that feeds on tourism and tries to hide the shameful image of (…)