Abdellah Hammoudi

Abdellah Hammoudi was born in Morocco in 1945 and currently lives in the US where he is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His previous books include Master and Disciple: The Cultural Foundations of Moroccan Authoritarianism and The Victim and its Masks: An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb (1993).

A season in Mecca: narrative of a pilgrimage

This extract is from one of seven books shortlisted for the 2005 Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage. The winner will be announced on 15 October, and over the

By Abdellah Hammoudi

/ 3 Oct 2005