Waiting for the Morning

Book excerpt: “Waiting for the Morning”, Mohamed Saïd Raïhani's first collection of short stories, was released in 2003 with fourteen texts written originally in Arabic between 1991 and 2003. A collection of short stories with the flavour of a novel, as “waiting” is the central theme compiling all the fourteen texts scrolling carefreely in vicious circles, abandoning their characters in still time, lost in stifling voids and left to an existential suffering far beyond time... If the first pace towards being a published author in his own culture cost him a dozen of years of expectation, the second pace cost him no less than twelve years before the launch of the present English version...