Abdelmajid Sebbata
Abdelmajid Sebbata is the author of three novels in Arabic: Khalfa jidar al-‘Ashuq (Behind the Wall of Passion, 2015), Saa‘at al-Sifr 00:00 (Zero Hour 00:00, 2017) which won the 2018 Moroccan Book Award, and this novel The Secrets of Folder 42 (Al-Malaf 42 [File 42], 2020, shortlisted for the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction). Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1989, Sebbata has a Masters degree in Civil Engineering from Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tangiers. He has written articles and...

