The Bashador

Author's name: Hassan Ouid Publisher: Al-Markaz Al-Thaqafi Lil-Kitab Year of publication: 2025 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: I want this confession to be a reflection of myself. I want it to express what has overwhelmed my life. I want it to be a picture of the truth. Isn't the truth like the Ghania; its beauty is the same whether it is naked or clothed? I was given the opportunity to know the House of Islam. I walked in the corridors of Dar Al-Makhzen in our Morocco, and I traveled through the land from our flourishing Morocco, its farthest, middle, and closest parts. And I lived in the guarded area for a stretch of my youth, and I spent half of my old age there, and I visited Medina after performing the pilgrimage, and I settled in the realm of the mighty state, and I set out to Jerusalem. The lands of Islam are familiar to me. And I feel that the unifying cord for Muslims is beginning to weaken, and their bond is breaking, and that our Morocco has become a target for the greedy since the Europeans settled in the central Maghreb and occupied its land. But our evil towards ourselves is worse than the ambitions lurking against us. What we do to ourselves is worse than what the enemy does to us. We enable him to control us, through our quarrels and our ignorance and our foolishness. We refuse to see the truth, and we deceive ourselves by blaming others.