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The May 2021 issue of Words Without Borders features writing from Mauritania. With work from Ahmed Isselmou, Aichetou, Moussa Ould Ebnou, Cheikh Nouh, Mariem Mint Derwich, Mamadou Kalidou Ba, Bios Diallo, and July Blalack.
May 2021 Image: Maouya Azziz, Untitled. Courtesy of Imago Mundi. This month we present fiction and poetry from Mauritania. Simultaneously Arab, West African, Saharan, and Sahelian, and straddling the Arabophone and Francophone spheres, Mauritania boasts a rich literature reflecting its multiple cultures. Ahmed Isselmou depicts a global currency system under cyberattack. In tales that speak to Mauritania's tradition of movement, Aichetou looks back to a female community in a seventeenth-century Bedouin encampment, while Moussa Ould Ebnou sends a time traveler in search of a better futur...