Rachid Benhaddo, a prominent Moroccan critic, translator, and academic has helped enrich the library of modern literary criticism in Arabic, consolidate it in Moroccan universities, and translate its technical terms into Arabic. He was also a pioneer in introducing the aesthetics of reception into the Arab domain. His latest book, The Aesthetics of the In Between in the Arabic Novel, won the 2012 Morocco book award. This book is a critical experience that founds the concept of the in between as the area of mediation itself; that is, those spaces neglected by critics and theorists, the narrow margins where genres and techniques intertwine, languages and visions are dualistic, times diffuse, and spaces touch. The author combines methodological precision with conceptual and terminological innovation, deepening the discussion of the theoretical foundation of reading. His conception beguiles a new poetic that rehabilitates the reader, not as the receiver of a closed authored text but as the author of a new text.