During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Salé pirates were so famous among Europeans that their activities inspired writers and journalists. The novel, Robinson Crusoe, was one of the books that portrayed some of the atrocities Christian slaves endured in Morocco.
Son of the King's entertainer and brother of a Tazmamart prisoner, Mahi Binebine shared the story that tore his family apart for years. Through his new novel, «Le Fou du Roi», the writer tries to forgive his father and bed a farewell to the painful past.