Book Signing For "Tangier, The Novel" Author.
Organized by Washington Moroccan Club

A book signing for “Tangier, the novel” , a novel published in 2005 with BookSurge Editions, by the author and anthropologist Ms. Diane Skelly Ponasik.
Ms. Ponasik, who has lived for over 12 years in Morocco, said that the novel takes place in the city of Tangier at the end of the 19th century and early 20th century when European powers, France and England in particular, were competing to colonize the Kingdom of Morocco.
The main protagonist, Lili, is a young Moroccan woman, from the Rif mountains, who was adopted and educated by the American consul in Tangier, following the death of her  mother. After her studies in the US, the teenager was torn between her adopted American identity and her original Moroccan culture. Even though she fell in love with Tarik, a young man from a prominent Moroccan family, she reluctantly decided to marry an American diplomat with the hope of being a “happy and free American woman”. But destiny has decided otherwise…