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- Ayman al-Dabūsī (?, Tunisia) – Intiṣāb Aswad (‘Black erection’, 2016). A young Tunisian man narrates his partaking in the Tunisian ‘Jasmine Revolution’ to his psychologist, and links it to his own sexual liberation and experimenting. His narrative alludes to the fact that a social revolution cannot succeed without the complete liberation of the body. However, the narrator ends up suffering from a sex-addition, desperately looking for sexual contacts, a symbol for the failure of the revolution (reference) (also in L: Love, Lust and Relationships: Lust and Sex: Sexual frustration and misconduct and 2011 Arab Uprisings: Tunisia).
- Leïla Slimani (1981-, Morocco) – Dans le Jardin de L’Orge (2014, English trans. Adèle, 2019). This novel portrays the sex-addiction of its protagonist, the journalist Adèle, an upper-class lady living in Paris who has continuous sexual encounters next to her family life with a surgeon and their son. When her husband has an accident and is forced to stay home, however, she is unable to continue her double life and he eventually discovers her secret (reference). The novel won the sixth prize for Moroccan fiction in French awarded by the La Mamounia in Marrakesh in 2015 (also in L: Love, Lust, and Relationships: Lust and Sex: Female sexuality).
Refrences:
- al-Kabīr al-Dādīsī. 2018. Masārāt al-riwāyah al-ʿarabiyyah al-muʿāṣirah, Muʾassah al-raḥāb al-ḥadīthah: Bayrūt, p. 97
- Lara Feigel. 2019. “‘Adèle’ by Leïla Slimani review – sex-addiction thriller.” www.theguardian.com, 14 February 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/14/adele-leila-slimani-review (last accessed 19 February 2023)