Civil society or male society? Nabil Ayouch’s ‘much-loved razzia’
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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.7.27420Keywords:
sex, bodies, masculinity, patriarchy, identity
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Nabil Ayouch’s Zin li Fik (Much Loved) and Razzia narrate the risks of social and cultural alienation, sex work, poverty, and resistance in Morocco. By depicting thorny realities, the films boldly unveil all that Morocco does not want to see of itself. Nabil Ayouch proposes an in-depth interrogation of the sociocultural and structural relations between masculinity, sexuality, cultural identity, exclusion, and survival. The reaction that Ayouch’s works provoke put them at the forefront as some of the most daring, controversial, and pertinent cultural productions in Morocco’s recent history. What are the implications of exposing Morocco’s linge sale in an effort to offer a new perspective through which identity is reflected?
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Salim Ayoub, Webster University
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