The Secret Of The Morisco Patrick Hicks There are two main strengths

There are two main strengths to this poetry

explores the legacy of the recent histories of two countries — Algeria and Bosnia-Herzegovina — both of which experienced traumatic

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The Secret Of The Morisco Patrick Hicks There are two main strengthsThe Secret of the Morisco is a picaresque tale of Robert, a young Englishman taken captive by the Spanish Armada in the 17th century, as he sails home after procuring an Arabic printing press in the Netherlands. Thrown into prison for nothing more than his own bad luck, Robert befriends a Christianised Moor, Yusuf, who cautiously recounts the story of his familys flight from Spain following the Edict of Expulsion in 1609 and divulges the existence of