‘Bye, Tangier’: the curse of ‘the woman with a man inside looking at a woman’

Salma El Moumni did not need to know that, on average, women think about how they expose their bodies to each other about eight times every five minutes. She already did as a teenager, when girls stop being girls and learn to dress and make-up to be desired or to take them seriously. What this Moroccan writer did ignore is that she was not the only one imagining how she was perceived. The click came with Brainwashed, Nina Menkes’ 2022 documentar…