August 2015. The bookshop Les Colonnes, Tangier, Morocco. Legendary bookshops can be counted on the fingers of one hand these days: José Corti in Paris, City Lights in San Francisco, Les Colonnes in Tangiers, Moroccan home to the Beat Generation, and notably Paul Bowles. Legend has it that the bookshop also acted as Jean Genet’s bank. Today the bookshop is more active than ever, also as a publisher of books and of its own review Nejma. I like to think of them as part of the family alongside Zamân Books.