Talk of Darkness: Human Rights in Morocco A public reading and
lecture by author and human rights activist Fatna El Bouih
Published: Saturday, March 10, 2007 Fatna El Bouih was first
arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with
connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she
was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred
between multiple prisons. While imprisoned, she helped organize
a hunger strike, completed her undergraduate degree in
sociology, and began work on a Master's degree. Beginning with
the harrowing account of her kidnapping during the heightened
political tension of the 1970s, Talk of Darkness tells the true
story of one woman's struggle to secure political prisoners'
rights and defend herself against an unjust imprisonment. Fatna
El Bouih went on to become a high school teacher after her
release from prison and continues to devote herself to human
rights. She is one of the founders of the first shelter for
battered women in Casablanca and works fo