Am award winning novel, 'Ben Barka Lane', by Iraqi writer Mahmud Sa'id (b. 1938). Published in Iraq in 1970 and subsequently banned, then award-winning. It is a young Moroccan man s story, full of the joy of life, the allurements and satisfactions of the physical world...even the delight of walking down a street in the evening by way of the casino lined by tall palms, by huge trees and by fragrant blossoms...It depicts loneliness, too.