Abdellah Taïa is Morocco's first openly gay writer – his work reimagines being Muslim, queer and African
Abdellah Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco. He currently lives in Paris. He is the first writer from north Africa – and in fact the Arab world – to openly declare that he is gay. In 2006, he came out in a highly publicised article in the Moroccan…
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