Scheherazade is not Moroccan

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Scheherazade! Who is this woman whose name evokes dreams, and why does she make us dream? Scheherazade’s story represents the amazing triumph of the innocent and weak, who succeeds in changing her fate by flattering her tormentor, transforming hatred into love. The threat of sudden death becomes a long series of nights of love.
Scheherazade’s feat would not have been possible had she not accumulated a vast amount of information that she used to construct her stories, whose astonishing realistic details reveal an exceptional knowledge and profound understanding of the world and its creatures. It’s not a matter of one or two or three stories, but a thousand and one stories—two years and nine months, thirty and one days. Could a brave girl, the daughter of an illiterate peasant in Shahryar’s capital, have accomplished this feat? Here lies the only important answer, and we can find it in the book itself, the reference in One Thousand and One Nights, the book we have been accustomed to devouring for centuries without delving into it carefully in search of the class mechanism that governs the fairy tale.

It’s time to begin analyzing what fascinates us and makes us dream. Through this approach, researcher Fatima Mernissi embarks on an intellectual, exploratory journey into the world of Moroccan societies, observing the position of Moroccan women and the transformations in their effectiveness and perceptions of them at the intellectual and social levels over successive periods. In an attempt, inspired by Scheherazade, to draw the attention of Moroccan society, and women in particular, to the necessity of playing the card of the times; that is, not wasting a single minute lamenting everything this society possesses (we don’t have the technology we should have, we don’t have the right climate or the right currency…). On the contrary, this precious minute should be invested in imagining how to change the distribution. Technological knowledge can be acquired: a degree, training, a successful television program, a newspaper article, expert listening… and not necessarily by eliminating a partner, but simply by playing skillfully, especially when the game is simply life.