September the 11th: The Noble Moor Strikes Back in Babel (2006)

Abstract

This article aims at exploring acts of narration and representation of Morocco in Gonzalez INARRITU s Babel 2006 This filmic production offers a critical examination of the representation of the typical Moroccan in Hollywood Babel offers a rather different narrative tone drifting away from Hollywood traditionalist mode of narration writing in bold a new tradition of narration and representation of Morocco Babel is a multi-narrative drama through which multiple stories unravel The story takes place in four different settings Morocco Japan Mexico and the United States respectively