Butcher of Casablanca

Abdelilah Hamdouchi, born in Meknès, Morocco, in 1958, was one of the first writers of police fiction in the Arabic language. Three of his police novels, which touch on democratic and human rights reform, Bled Dry, Whitefly, and The Final Bet, have been translated into English and are available from AUC Press. Hamdouchi is also an award-winning screenwriter with many film and television scripts to his credit. He lives in Rabat, Morocco.Peter Daniel, a longterm resident of Egypt, has worked as teacher of Arabic as a foreign language and an Arabic to English translator for many years.

Praise for Abdelilah Hamdouchi:“A winner"—M. Lynx Qualey, The National “This is a pithy, moving and crisply written crime novel featuring Detective Hanash.”—Peter Kalu, Banipal "Abdelilah Hamdouchi seems to have found the formula for the emergence of the Moroccan detective novel."—Libération Kaleidoscope"Hamdouchi is an artful storyteller"—Tank Magazine “A great introduction to Moroccan "policiers"—Paul French, Literary Hub"Detailed and strikingly alive"—Omotola Otubela, Wawa Book ReviewPraise for The Butcher of Casablanca: “A world rarely presented in crime fiction” —Kirkus Reviews"The Butcher of Casablanca is entertaining, at times very funny but it always has that thread of social critique about it that pulls the reader up, we are laughing at dark things sometimes”—NB Magazine