![]() ![]() Taia has a small, compact body, alert brown eyes, and the faint fuzz of a moustache. 'They killed him, in their way - they destroyed him.' 'They made him just a sexual thing, someone that the frustrated Moroccan man can have sex with,' says Taia. In a culture where men and women are strictly separated, Naim was a vessel - and a victim - for young men in search of a substitute. A young man in his neighborhood, Naim - 'a very beautiful name that means, after a manner, soft' - served as a harbinger of his own likely fate. Taia always knew he was gay, but it took time to realize how it might be used against him. That's when I realized I had to hide who I am.' 'What I saw clearly was that this is how society functions and that no one can protect you, not even your parents. 'Everyone heard'not only my family but the whole neighborhood,' he says. Abdellah Taia recalls the night a group of men came to his family home - three rooms for 11 people - and shouted at the windows: 'Abdellah, come here, we want to fuck you.' He was 11 going on 12 and lay in bed alongside his sisters and his mother, listening to the mob outside. ![]()
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