The prisoner Dar Al Jadeed

Revenge is a fierce beast. This is what Malika Oufkir, the adopted daughter of King Hassan II of Morocco, learned when fate turned against her family after the failed coup led by her father, General Mohamed Oufkir, in 1972. The family, the mother and six children, the youngest not exceeding one year old, moved from the luxury of palaces and their indulgence to the darkness of prisons, and what prisons these were. After nearly twenty years of forced stays and traps, Malika regained her freedom, and by coincidence, she met writer and journalist Michel Vettosi, who skillfully retold what the girl and her family experienced all those years. It is no wonder that this book, read in many languages — including Arabic — crowned her as a queen over the female prisoners of the twentieth century.