One of my students this semester is originally from Morocco. In her literacy narrative, she wrote about reading passionately in both French and Arabic as a young girl, so I asked her about the books she read then and the books she reads now.  The next week, she loaned me The Attack by Yasmina Khadra, which she had read originally in French.  Even before I began the story, I was intrigued by the author—a former Algerian army officer writing under a nom de plume. The […]