The ShuttersAhmed Bouanani (trans. Emma Ramadan) The Shutters collects the two most important poetry collections The Shutters and Photograms by the legendary Moroccan writer Ahmed Bouanani. By intertwining myth and tradition with the familiar objects and smells of his lived present, Bouanani reconstructs vivid images of Morocco's past. He weaves together references to the Second World War, the Spanish and French protectorates, the Rif War, dead soldiers,