An Arab Melancholia/ Native Agents

By Abdellah Taia

An autobiographical portrait of a gay Arab man, living between cultures, seeking an identity through love and writing.I had to rediscover who I was. And that’s why I left the apartment…. And there I was, right in the heart of the Arab world, a world that never tired of making the same mistakes over and over…. I had no more leniency when it came…