‘I don’t think we’re likely to get to know the Moslems very well, and I suspect that if we should, we’d find them less sympathetic than we do at present. And I suspect the same applies to their getting to know us’, observed the novelist Paul Bowles. Three years after he made this remark in 1952, Bowles published his seminal novel about the last days of French colonialism in Morocco, The Spider’s House.
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