Morocco is a multicultural country in which a plethora of questions are raised about identity and belonging. As such, defining a specifically “Moroccan Identity” is a daunting task. The Olive Writers organization, as such, aims to give Moroccan youths a chance to speak and be heard, to write about their personal lives, to tackle the exclusion and injustice they suffer, to understand and come to terms with their society and to nurture their own individual identities in hopes of shedding light on their individual definitions of the ever-so-fluid nature of the mold shaping their identities. To this end, we asked our Summer Camp applicants to write personal essays about identity; and this book is the fruit of their works.
