The editor was Edouard Roditi.[1] It was the last of thirty five chapbooks in a series which also included Anaïs Nin, Raymond Carver, Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller. (The chapbook series actually had 41 titles in the series.) Hamri was the only Moroccan published in the series.[1] It is a collection of the tales and legends of the village of Jajouka and its musicians, the Master Musicians of Joujouka.