His main works are his autobiographic trilogy, beginning with "For Bread Alone", followed by "Zaman Al-Akhtaâ aw Al-Shouttar" ("Time of Mistakes" or "Streetwise", Telegram Books) and finally "Faces". He also wrote collections of short stories in the 1960s/1970s ("Majnoun Al-Ward", "The Flower Freak", 1980; "Al-Khaima", "The Tent", 1985). Likewise, he is known for his accounts of his encounters with the writers Paul Bowles, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams ("Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams in Tangier", 1992, "Jean Genet in Tangier", 1993, "Jean Genet, Suite and End", 1996, "Paul Bowles: Le Reclus de Tanger", 1997). See also "In Tangier", Telegram Books, 2008, for all three in one volume.