The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

The ferrane

This is a nicely written story about the role of public bakeries in traditional Moroccan life -- it made my mouth water at the thought of the tasty bread I grew up with. But it was slightly ruined for me towards the end with the author's dinner at Mohammed Benaissa, the hapless and reportedly quite corrupt foreign minister (and former ambassador to the US).