Leïla Slimani
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494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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You have one one person sometimes who is a rebel, someone who doesn't accept the the norms, who doesn't accept the rules.
And I was this kind of of young girl.
And when I was maybe seven or eight years old, I had a fight with my father.
I did something and he yelled at me and I answered him.
And he said, You don't answer your father and I said, It's my mouth and I say whatever I want.
Mm-hmm.
In French I said Semabouche.
And then it was my my nickname for a very long time.
My father used to call me Sema Bouche because I was always speaking out and it was impossible for me to to shut up or to silence when I was feeling something or when I was really I I had a very strong feeling of injustice and it was something that really destroyed me.
And that's how
I think I began to to write because I was always telling my grandmother, it's so unfair, it's so unfair.
And one day she said, You know, yeah, it's unfair, and life is unfair, and you you will see and you will understand.
So maybe write about this, and maybe you can resolve or you can try to correct this injustice through writing.
Sinx colonization.
Actually, it's a law that was written by the French when they arrived in in Morocco.
Their idea was also to prevent any kind of sexuality between Arabs and French and Europeans.
So there was really the desire to
separate to segregate the two population and that's why uh people would look down at my grandparents because it was uh very scandalous at that time for a white woman to have sexual intercourse with an Arab.
So that's why they decided to uh to apply those laws.
But then when they left, Moroccans uh kept
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