News
16 Jul 2013
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Talha Jibril releases a second edition of “Those First Days in Rabat”
The second edition of the book ''Those First Days in Rabat'' by the Sudanese writer and journalist Talha Jibril has just been published.In this 144-page book, the writer nostalgically recalls the beginnings of a journey full of adventures and twists and turns that he took from Khartoum to Rabat while he was still a student. This adventure, which was supposed to be a limited transit, eventually led Talha Jibril to settle permanently in Morocco four decades ago.The story begins with the landing of a plane on the runway at Casablanca airport. On board, a group of students wishing to pursue their studies in Moroccan universities. Talha Jibril, the ''foreign'' student, had to face a new reality; he certainly spoke Arabic, but he did not understand a word of the Moroccan dialect. However, it would not be long before he earned his first salary at the newspaper ''Al Mitaq'', amounting to 1,000…
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