Ahmed Toufiq is the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments for Morocco. Trained as both a historian and philologist, he is the author of works on pre-modern Moroccan history and the editor of significant source texts in religion and history. Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors: A Historical Novel from Morocco was the first of his novels to be translated into English.Roger Allen is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated several Arabic novels into English, including Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors, and is the author of The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction.

"[Moon & Henna Tree] set in an unspecified time period in pre-modern Morocco, explores power, marriage and relationships as uses that transcend time and space [...] Despite the story's many traditional features such as dreams of Circassian wives and local bards predicting the shape of things to come in poetic utterances, Toufiq plays with power relationships in a way that is strikingly relevant in the 21st century." - Banipal

Ahmed Toufiq is the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments for Morocco. Trained as both a historian and philologist, he is the author of works on pre-modern Moroccan history and the editor of significant source texts in religion and history. Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors: A Historical Novel from Morocco was the first of his novels to be translated into English.Roger Allen is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated several Arabic novels into English, including Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors, and is the author of The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction.

"[Moon & Henna Tree] set in an unspecified time period in pre-modern Morocco, explores power, marriage and relationships as uses that transcend time and space [...] Despite the story's many traditional features such as dreams of Circassian wives and local bards predicting the shape of things to come in poetic utterances, Toufiq plays with power relationships in a way that is strikingly relevant in the 21st century." - Banipal

Ahmed Toufiq is the Minister of Religious Affairs and Endowments for Morocco. Trained as both a historian and philologist, he is the author of works on pre-modern Moroccan history and the editor of significant source texts in religion and history. Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors: A Historical Novel from Morocco was the first of his novels to be translated into English.Roger Allen is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He has translated several Arabic novels into English, including Abu Musa’s Women Neighbors, and is the author of The Arabic Novel: An Historical and Critical Introduction.

"[Moon & Henna Tree] set in an unspecified time period in pre-modern Morocco, explores power, marriage and relationships as uses that transcend time and space [...] Despite the story's many traditional features such as dreams of Circassian wives and local bards predicting the shape of things to come in poetic utterances, Toufiq plays with power relationships in a way that is strikingly relevant in the 21st century." - Banipal