STOLEN LIVES: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail. By Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi. Hyperion, $24. SHE was the daughter of the king's right-hand man and the confidante of a princess. Her destiny, she ...
Malika Oufkir thumbs through her French-English pocket dictionary, searching for the words as she attempts to describe the horrors of her nearly 20 years as a political prisoner in Morocco and her ...
For a prison memoir, Malika Oufkir’s story opens sweetly, as if her life were a fairy tale in reverse. She is a rebellious 5-year-old in frilly dresses when she is adopted by King Mohammed V to become ...
BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, gorgeous palaces, daring escapes, and plenty of bad guys: The particulars of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, the autobiographical tale of Malika Oufkir and her family, ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Malika Oufkir keeps no calendar. She allows no clocks in her Paris ...
« Jeune officier plein d'allant et d'énergie, conservant dans toutes les situations le calme le plus parfait. (…) Représente le type parfait de l'officier marocain baroudeur, jusqu'à la témérité. » ...
Né en 1920, à Aïn-Cheïkh, dans l'Anti-Atlas, le général Mohamed Oufkir est le fils d'un notable de Boudenib, dans le sud-est du Maroc, qui fut un opposant à la pénétration française. Il fait des ...
Earlier this year, the Oprah Winfrey Show featured Malika Oukfir, whose Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail was both an Oprah book of the month club selection, and a New York Times non-fiction ...
La veuve du général Mohamed Oufkir, ancien numéro deux du Maroc et ministre de l’Intérieur sous Hassan II, est décédée dimanche 15 décembre dans une clinique de Casablanca. Comme le rapporte le site ...
IT seems that writing a memoir can be justified these days simply because the author made it to adulthood despite setbacks that may include substance abuse, ambiguous personal demons, a tawdry sex ...
STOLEN LIVES: TWENTY YEARS IN A DESERT JAIL by Malika Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi (Hyperion, $24) Co-authors Oufkir and Michele Fitoussi, the literary editor for French Elle, tell this harrowing tale ...