Saeida Rouass the Moroccan and British writer, talks about her book “Assembly of the Dead”, inspired by a true story of a serial killer back in 1906, convicted of killing 36 young women. Growing up in East London, where “Jack the Ripper” used to live, Saeida Rouass felt eager to write about his Moroccan double, from her British-Moroccan perspective.

Saeida Rouass didn’t miss to mention Women’s identity in this “New Moroccan Trend”, stating that “women are misrepresented or under-represented”. Women are mainly overlooked, expected to write certain types of stories, and maintain certain levels of decency in their writing.

Only, “as a writer”, she explains, “you just have to get to a place where you stop caring about everything and everyone, and you just have to write, to let go of the expectations that other people have of you, and when you finish your first draft, you have to start caring again, because that’s when you have to hear what people have to say”

Saeida Rouass ends her speech by declaring, that from her experience with young Moroccan writers, women, specifically can articulate themselves without fear of hurting people.