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Author_Salma El Moumni
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Product details
- ISBN 9781803096209
- Weight: 172g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2026
- Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman’s flight from shame to self-reclamation.
For Alia, being a teenager in Tangier means constantly facing a gauntlet of unwanted encounters by men in the streets who look her over, grab her, or make comments about her body. At night, in the privacy of her bedroom, Alia begins to take photos of her body in order to understand what those men see when they look at her, becoming her own voyeur. When Alia’s photos somehow end up on the internet, she decides to flee the country, as the photos violate Moroccan law. She seeks refuge in Lyon, France, but is unable to escape the past.
Farewell Tangier is a searing exploration of the male gaze and its potential to shatter a young woman’s life, exploring themes of desire, dissociation, and exile. It is both a feminist critique of the policing of female bodies and an affecting narrative of one young woman’s struggle with her identity.
For Alia, being a teenager in Tangier means constantly facing a gauntlet of unwanted encounters by men in the streets who look her over, grab her, or make comments about her body. At night, in the privacy of her bedroom, Alia begins to take photos of her body in order to understand what those men see when they look at her, becoming her own voyeur. When Alia’s photos somehow end up on the internet, she decides to flee the country, as the photos violate Moroccan law. She seeks refuge in Lyon, France, but is unable to escape the past.
Farewell Tangier is a searing exploration of the male gaze and its potential to shatter a young woman’s life, exploring themes of desire, dissociation, and exile. It is both a feminist critique of the policing of female bodies and an affecting narrative of one young woman’s struggle with her identity.
Salma El Moumni is a Moroccan and French writer. After moving to France at seventeen, she graduated in comparative literature and wrote her first novel, Adieu Tanger, which was published in French in 2023. Oscillating between different countries, languages, and cities, she currently lives in Paris. Lynn E. Palermo translated Fabienne Kanor’s Humus, shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award and supported by a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. For Seagull Books, she has translated Fabienne Kanor’s Old World. She is an emerita professor of French studies at Susquehanna University.
