By Marie-Jo Fressard, SOLIDMAR , 06/02/2010
Writer Moroccan Mahi Binebine imbibed for five years in this environment because of violence, ugliness, dirt, dust, garbage odors, but also human warmth, fellowship and loads of fun, which cohabit in the One of the most miserable slums of Morocco Sidi Moumen, discreetly hidden from foreign eyes behind a wall of adobe, as are all the slums of the prestigious kingdom. In 2003 Photos from the shantytown sprawled in the press, exceptionally well-in-the French press: that the soil where s' flourish suicide bombers, perpetrators of deadly bombings in the Moroccan luxury hotels.
Mahi Binebine made it an exciting and terrifying novel that allows us to understand why and how a bunch of "hard" has been insidiously indoctrinated to be led meekly to commit the irreparable pull the thread of the vest to detonate ...
The Stars of Sidi Moumen is the name of the football team's most formidable and most successful of the shanty towns surrounding Casablanca. The story is told by the team that wants to be called Moh Yashin, like his idol, to the point become Yashin, living and dead, no regrets for having a short life "happy to be away from corrugated iron, cold, sliced open sewers and all the miasma that inhabited my childhood" He talks about Yemma, his mother, stern and tender, fear and adored by his many son (she gave birth to 14 boys in 14 years, a record!), its protective brother Hamid, capable of killing for revenge. The deaths "accidental" are buried in the landfill. Nobody cares: so many people leave the slums without warning ...
We discover one by one the friends and their life of misery: the beautiful Nabil, son of Tamou the prostitute, who is ashamed of her mother "I am a son of a bitch! "Fouad is the only one who went to school, Ali, who is black because he worked in the coal, Khalil had an easier life" before "and others. Delinquency survival: fights, theft, rape, drugs, snort, pedophilia ... "In the beginning there was the shock and the colony of rogues who sprouted above. The religion of football, endless fights, thefts and shoplifting and shopping sprees, the avatars of resourcefulness, Hashish, white glue and wanderings they cause, smuggling and small trades, repeated blows raining down, runaway and ransoms of rape and abuse ... Amidst all this chaos glittered a jewel fallen from Paradise: Ghislane, my dear and beautiful friend. We do not know how she landed at Sidi Moumen, but it clashed with our scene. A false note in reverse. "Yashin fell madly in love.
Fire set one day to the police commissioner called the liberation of "Doberman" which, fortunately for him was not present that day. "The police station Police was not rebuilt, and nobody suffered unduly. Differences between people were settled by mediation then either the old or fist to the landfill. But life in Sidi Moumen cushy went its merry way. "
Then it was a day's meeting with Hamid Abu Zubair and the scheduled start of indoctrination that has gradually spread throughout the team. And everything changed. Yemma rejoiced first change: Hamid, the enfant terrible does more dope, he found work, he became serious. "But he was gone. (...) Not only returned lunchtime. Dead as the joyous atmosphere that he used to spread the table, the incredible stories that were both laughing Yemma. "
No more football, no more fights and laughs. The whole team is taken over by Abu Zuhair and his friends to whom they want to look like. They let the beard grow, do their five daily prayers, speak of the greatness of God around them .... Zouhair and his friends organize their holidays in the Middle Atlas, the ones who never went beyond the wall of the slum. In nature, near the beautiful Lake Dayet Aoua, sometimes in an atmosphere joyful, sometimes pious, their preparation " departure" is honed, and soon, when they understand what will be their "mission " they will accept it naturally ... The Stars of Sidi Moumen , Mahi Binebine novel, Flammarion, January 2010 . 17, 10 €
Biography Mahi Binebine
Binebine Mahi, novelist, painter and sculptor Moroccan, was born in 1959 in Marrakech. In 1980, he settled in Paris and studied he taught mathematics for eight years.
He is passionate about painting and writing.
He spent six years in New York, paintings and sculptures are held at the Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim.
can see it works in different places around the world: Venice Biennale, Galerie Ott, Düsseldorf, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC (1998), Mll Tinglado4 Costa, Tragone, Palais des Congres, Grasse ( 2001), Société Générale Marocaine des Banques, Marrakech Museum (2002) ...
Area Bellville, Paris; Mohssem Asilah Cultural (2000), Museum of Marrakech (2003), Puerto de las Artes, Huelva; Burj Al Arab Dubai (2001) ...
Mahi Binebine has published several novels including: The sleep of Slave (1992) who was awarded the Mediterranean, Cannibals (1999), Writing at the turn, The Funeral of milk (1994), The Shadow of the Poet (1997), Pollen (2001) which won the prize of the Franco-Arab Friendship ...
He lives in Marrakech since 2002.
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