Abstract
Nour al-Din Elansari is a Moroccan poet, calligrapher and a member of the Moroccan Union of Poets. He came to France to study for his doctorate but soon got involved in the Paris-based campaign to release the jailed Moroccan poet, Abdellatif Laabi. This angered the Moroccan government, for his crime was twofold: poetry and activism. Police started to visit his family in Marrakesh regularly to interrogate them about Nour al-Din's activities. He chose not to return to his country or publish there, while his younger brother Ibrahim, also a poet, was arrested and jailed in January, 1984.
In Paris, Index on Censorship met Nour al-Din, who explained what it was like to be an exile.