4 A respectful title given to people who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca. Rhaj, rhajja.
5 A song the bridegroom’s colleagues and friends sing to him on the second night of the nuptial festivities.
6 The month in the Muslim calendar when it’s traditional to cut hair.
7 A respectful name daughters-in-law use to address their mother-in-law or nieces, the wives of their uncles, young sisters-in-law or their elder brothers’ wives.
8 A form of address that denotes a friend.
9 A holiday on the Muslim calendar that’s held two months and ten days after the end of Ramadan when a sheep is sacrificed.
10 A typically Moroccan kind of pancake, made from flour, water, yeast and salt.
11 Mila with headscarf, string belt and her dog Ánima is the protagonist of the Catalan classic Solitud (1905), a novel about her struggle for freedom in rural Catalonia. Caterina Albert i Paradís, the novelist, wrote under the pseudonym of Victor Catalá.
12 Colometa is the nickname of Natalia, the heroine of Mercè Rodoreda’s novel La plaça del diamant (1962) or The Time of the Doves in David Rosenthal’s translation. She struggles in Barcelona against the hardships brought by the civil war.
13 An important chivalresque novel written in Catalan in the middle of the fifteenth century.
14 Zeida de Nulle Part (1985) is the first work by Leila Houari, a Moroccan writer living in Belgium. She explores issues of her roots and identity.
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