BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, gorgeous palaces, daring escapes, and plenty of bad guys: The particulars of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail, the autobiographical tale of Malika Oufkir and her family, ...
IT seems that writing a memoir can be justified these days simply because the author made it to adulthood despite setbacks that may include substance abuse, ambiguous personal demons, a tawdry sex ...
STOLEN LIVES: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail. By Malika Oufkir and Michèle Fitoussi. Hyperion, $24. SHE was the daughter of the king's right-hand man and the confidante of a princess. Her destiny, she ...
As a small child, Malika Oufkir was adopted by the Moroccan Royal Family and soon enough was completely at home in their splendorous palaces. She kept company with concubines and slaves, but was ...
In the summer of 2005, 53-year-old Malika Oufkir stepped out of the oppressive 100-plus-degree heat in Marrakesh and into an orphanage where the air was equally stifling — filled with the odor of ...
Talk Miramax. 304 pp. $24 History is full of vertiginous reversals of fortune, sometimes as deserved as they are tragic: despots humbled by hubris, tycoons toppled by greed, spoiled heiresses driven ...
Malika Oufkir keeps no calendar. She allows no clocks in her Paris apartment. She deliberately forgets her age. By ignoring time, she is refusing to acknowledge the 20 years that she lost to an unjust ...
2006-11-24T08:19:22-05:00https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...
As Malika Oufkir enters the hotel dining room, heads turn toward her and all eyes appraise her. She is elegant, strikingly beautiful and slender. She also is about to weep. “My life is really strange, ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
2006-11-18T15:30:28-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/927/194955-m.jpgCharles McGrath moderated a panel discussion on memoir writing. Panelists discussed their ...
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