I wish someone told me not to get off the car when stopped by a cop as a sign of respect for them.
I wish someone told me not to pick up random kids in the park and kiss them on the cheeks like we do on Morocco without being considered psychos.
In this stunning work of historical fiction, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of Americaa Moroccan slave whose testimony was left out of the official record.
Mohamed El Aouad was born in Casablanca Morocco, with his parents coming originally from the Souss Amazigh Area. Mohamed pursued his education in Pennsylvania State University , Pennstate and earned his second BS in Network Engineering , after achieving his first BS in Casablanca at ESI in 1998. He joined the Group of Wells Fargo Bank, Merchant Services, where he occupied a position of Product Solution Advisor and Specialist until, in 2011 He finished his Master Degree of Information System Engineering and Management at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.