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 for released prisoners' reintegration into society and the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco.Mustapha Kamal is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He himself was a political prisoner in Morocco.Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She has written extensively on the Middle East and North Africa.

• Author's DedicationTranslators' IntroductionChronologyChapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: "Or the Narrative of Suffering"Chapter 2.Chapter 3.Chapter 4.Chapter 5.Chapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes PrisonChapter 7.Chapter 8.Chapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: "Imposed Violence"Chapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou PrisonChapter 11. Trial DayChapter 12. The Inseparable TwosomeChapter 13. An Incredible VisitChapter 14. "The Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber"Chapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and HappinessChapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free PersonChapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed GriefChapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman PrisonerChapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without SpringChapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi KacemChapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation inPolice Stations: Testimony of Widad BouabChapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers:Testimony of Latifa JbabdiNotes

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 for released prisoners' reintegration into society and the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco.Mustapha Kamal is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He himself was a political prisoner in Morocco.Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She has written extensively on the Middle East and North Africa.

• Author's DedicationTranslators' IntroductionChronologyChapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: "Or the Narrative of Suffering"Chapter 2.Chapter 3.Chapter 4.Chapter 5.Chapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes PrisonChapter 7.Chapter 8.Chapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: "Imposed Violence"Chapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou PrisonChapter 11. Trial DayChapter 12. The Inseparable TwosomeChapter 13. An Incredible VisitChapter 14. "The Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber"Chapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and HappinessChapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free PersonChapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed GriefChapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman PrisonerChapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without SpringChapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi KacemChapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation inPolice Stations: Testimony of Widad BouabChapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers:Testimony of Latifa JbabdiNotes

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 for released prisoners' reintegration into society and the abolition of the death penalty in Morocco.Mustapha Kamal is Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He himself was a political prisoner in Morocco.Susan Slyomovics is Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. She has written extensively on the Middle East and North Africa.

• Author's DedicationTranslators' IntroductionChronologyChapter 1. Derb, the Secret Prison: "Or the Narrative of Suffering"Chapter 2.Chapter 3.Chapter 4.Chapter 5.Chapter 6. Behind the Walls of Ghbila: The Trip to Meknes PrisonChapter 7.Chapter 8.Chapter 9. Diary of a Hunger Striker: "Imposed Violence"Chapter 10. A Night's Sojourn in Laalou PrisonChapter 11. Trial DayChapter 12. The Inseparable TwosomeChapter 13. An Incredible VisitChapter 14. "The Minaret Collapsed and They Hanged the Barber"Chapter 15. Season of Spring, Life, and HappinessChapter 16. A Prisoner Gives Birth to a Free PersonChapter 17. Ilham: Despairing Screams, Suppressed GriefChapter 18. Shards of Time in the Life of a Woman PrisonerChapter 19. The Autumn of a Life without SpringChapter 20. The Prison House of the Woman Jailer in Sidi KacemChapter 21. The Prison that Was a Refuge after the Isolation inPolice Stations: Testimony of Widad BouabChapter 22. The Police Station, Torture, Prison, and Torturers:Testimony of Latifa JbabdiNotes