Beyrouk restores its letters of nobility to the Sahara

Reassigning poetry to the Sahara. This is the mission assigned to himself by Beyrouk, the Mauritanian author. His latest work, The Silence of the Horizons (ed. Elyzad), is in the running for the prize for Arabic literature. In this book, the author wished to use his story, that of a child full of dreams who grew up in the north of Mauritania, in the town of Atâr, not far from the desert expanses. “These are large spaces and also a lot of generosity“, remembers Beyrouk. An image far from that which is often conveyed in the Western media which associate it regularly – and yet rightly – with a growing breeding ground of jihadism on the African continent. Yes, but not only.

Far from the image we have of it, the Sahara is also “compassion, solidarity and tolerance“, believes Beyrouk.”These demons who are sowing terror today in the desert are not our demons. Very often they come from elsewhere, from big cities“, continues the author.”Appalled“by the terrorist actions taking place in four corners of the world, Beyrouk hopes for a start from the inhabitants of the Sahara that would offer a new vision of this place full of poetry.