'asal va ḥanẓal: Persian 1401

We remember Morocco, this Carthaginian kingdom belonging to centuries and millennia with Casablanca and Tangier in cinema and literature, with the image and words and voice of Michael Curtis, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, William Burroughs, David Cronenberg, Jim Jarmusch, Tilda Swinton, and Yasmin Hamdan. All these great names have existed and exist, but none of them can reach the feet of "Tahir bin Jaloun" in the narrative of Morocco. At the beginning of the third decade of the third millennium, he took his story in the book "Honey and Hanzal" to ancient Tangier in its current state, and created a picture of the city and its people that perhaps no one has come close to. The beautiful Tangier, built in the heart of ancient stones and rocks, in Jalon's novel, contains the same poetry, passion, and music, but in direct relation to the real reality; The city of aggressors is always proud and proud and the victims are silent and always in debt! Samia is lost and is no more, and her parents' palate is as bitter as Hanzal, the same Abu Jahl watermelon that has brought self-inflicted abortion to Arab women for centuries! Asal and Hanzal, however, is not only the narration of this endless and deadly bitterness; Someone comes from afar with whom the light of hope flickers and whispers that maybe salvation is possible.