Malika Oufkir

مليكة اوفقير

Story of a woman who spent twenty years in a desert jail.

السجينة

Michele Fitoussi

MY FAMILY'S TWENTY-YEAR STRUGGLE IN A DESERT JAIL (Oprah's Book Club)

STOLEN LIVES

الغريبة

Michèle Fitoussi

A cinq ans, la fille aînée du général Oufkir, qui deviendra ministre de l'Intérieur, est adoptée par Muhammad V (père d'Hassan II) et abritée dans le palais du roi. Alors que Malika est parmi les héritières les plus courtisées du Maroc, un coup d'Etat a lieu contre le roi, le général Oufkir est exécuté et toute sa famille incarcérée. Puis, suit une vie d'errance à travers les déserts.

La prisonnière

Malika Oufkir Has Been A Prisoner For Most Of Her Life. Born In 1953, The Eldest Daughter Of The King Of Morocco S Closest Aide, Malika Was Adopted By The King To Be A Companion To His Little Daughter. She Grew Up At The Royal Court Of Rabat, Locked Away In A Golden Cage, Among The Royal Wives And Concubines.But In 1972, Her Father Was Arrested And Executed After An Attempt To Assassinate The King. Nineteen-Year-Old Malika, Her Mother And Her Five Younger Brothers And Sisters Were Thrown Into An Isolated Desert Gaol. Innocent Of Any Crime, They Were Locked Away In Increasingly Barbaric Conditions For Fifteen Endless Years.Like A Modern Scheherazade, Malika Kept Up Their Spirits By Telling Them Stories Every Night. Finally, The Oufkir Children Managed To Dig A Tunnel With Their Bare Hands And Made A Daring Escape. Recaptured After Five Days, The Ensuing Public Hue And Cry Resulted In House Arrest Rather Than A Return To Prison. But It Was Only In 1996 That Malika Was Finally Permitted To Leave Morocco To Begin A New Life In France.

Twenty Years in a Desert Goal

La Prisonniere

The author describes her return to the world after twenty years in a Moroccan jail, as she struggled to adjust to the modern world, understand the reality of freedom, fall in love, and experience an intimate relationship for the first time.

The Story of My Second Life

Freedom

Op vijfjarige leeftijd wordt Malika Oufkir geadopteerd door de Marokkaanse koning, als speelkameraadje voor zijn dochter, het prinsesje Amina. Malika brengt elf jaar door in weelderige paleizen, zij het in volslagen isolement en gescheiden van haar eigen familie. Ze moet zich staande houden in een wereld vol hofintriges, haat en nijd binnen de harem. In 1972 pleegt Malika's vader, generaal Mohammed Oufkir, een mislukte staatsgreep tegen koning Hassan ii en wordt geëxecuteerd. Aan het luxueuze leven van de familie Oufkir komt een abrupt einde. Samen met haar moeder, broertjes en zusjes wordt Malika gedeporteerd naar het zuiden van Marokko, en zal uiteindelijk twintig jaar in gevangenschap doorbrengen op wisselende locaties. In de wereldwijde bestseller De gevangene schrijft Malika Oufkir op aangrijpende wijze over de geschiedenis van haar familie, het leven tussen de jetset van Marokko en over de lange jaren in gevangenschap.

De gevangene

Qui ne se souvient du destin incroyable de Malika Oufkir ? Dans La Prisonnière, écrit avec Michèle Fitoussi, Malika racontait le sort d'une enfant élevée comme une princesse à la cour d'Hassan II. A la suite d'un coup d'Etat en 1972, où son père biologique, le général Oufkir, tenta de renverser son père adoptif, le roi du Maroc, on l'emprisonna avec toute sa famille, mère, frères, soeurs, pendant près de vingt ans. Malika a survécu, mais à quel prix ? Comment se promener dans les rues de Paris, de Marrakech, de Miami ou de New York, quand on a encore la peur au ventre ? Que peut-elle dire de son passé mutilé à Nawal et à Adam, ses enfants adoptifs ? L'Etrangère est le récit vrai d'une Martienne revenue sur terre. Malika Oufkir a beaucoup d'humour, le sens de l'observation, la rage au cœur, et ce " grain de folie " qui lui donne définitivement une place à part.

L'étrangère

Stolen Lives, Malika Oufkir's intensely moving account of her twenty years imprisoned in a desert jail in Morocco, was a surprise international best seller and the second non-fiction title ever selected for Oprah's Book Club. In her highly anticipated follow-up, Malika reflects on the life she lived before and during incarceration and how dramatically the world had changed when she emerged. Malika Oufkir was born into extreme privilege as the daughter of the king of Morocco's closest aide, and she grew up in the palace as companion to the Moroccan princess. But in 1972, her life of luxury came to a crashing halt.Her father was executed for attempting to assassinate the king, and she and her family were locked away for two decades. After a remarkable escape, Malika and her family returned to the world theyd left behind, only to find it transformed. Living for the first time as an adult, Malika writes candidly about adjusting to the world we take for granted, from negotiating ATMs to the excesses of shopping malls, to falling in love and sex. In Stolen Lives, Malika mourned the children she was not having as she wasted away in prison. When she is finally free, motherhood becomes crucial to Malika's ability to fully live her life: she adopts first her niece, then a baby boy from Morocco. Full of insight and piercing observations, as well as humor, Freedom is as masterful and thoughtprovoking as the original.

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