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List Of Moroccan Writers
This is a list of writers from Morocco. Twentieth century __NOTOC__ A * Eliette Abécassis (born 1969) * Leila Abouzeid (born 1950) * Mohammed Achaari (born 1951) * Said Achtouk (died 1989) * Issa Aït Belize * Lotfi Akalay (1943–2019) * Mohammed Akoujan * Mehdi Akhrif (born 1952) * Mohammed ibn Mohammed Alami (1932–1993) * Idriss ibn al-Hassan al-Alami (1925–2007) * Ahmad al-Tayyeb Aldj (1928–2012) * Tewfik Allal (born 1947) * Farid al-Ansari (1960–2009) * Najib El Aoufi (born 1948) * Robert Assaraf (1936–2018) * Nabil Ayouch (born 1969) * Ali Azaykou (1942–2004) B * * Souad Bahéchar (born 1953) * Latifa Baka (born 1964) * Ahmed Barakat (1960–1994) * Muriel Barbery (born 1969) * Laarbi Batma (1948–1998) * Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani * Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906–2010) * Abdeslam Benabdelali * Abdelkader Benali (born 1975) * Mehdi Ben Barka (1920–1965) * Zoubeir Ben Bouchta * Halima Ben Haddou (born 1954) * Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1944) * Siham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morocco
Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south. Mauritania lies to the south of Western Sahara. Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It spans an area of or , with a population of roughly 37 million. Its official and predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber; the Moroccan dialect of Arabic and French are also widely spoken. Moroccan identity and culture is a mix of Arab, Berber, and European cultures. Its capital is Rabat, while its largest city is Casablanca. In a region inhabited since the Paleolithic Era over 300,000 years ago, the first Moroccan s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Azaykou
Ali Sidqi Azaykou (; 1942–2004), also called Dda Ali,« Hommage. Azayku l'Amazigh » par Maria Daïf, ''TelQuel'' n°14 was a Moroccan Berber poet, historian, philosopher and critic. He was an Amazigh activist. He has greatly influenced the cultural Berber movements. - ''HH / Tel Quel'' n° 184, août 2005. Biography Ali Sidqi Azaykou was born (1942) in the village of Igran n tuinght in the in the surroundings of in the re ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun ( ar, الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel ''L’Enfant de Sable'' (''The Sand Child''). He now lives in Paris, France, and continues to write. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Early life and career Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Morocco in December 1944. As a child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingual elementary school. He then studied in the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Morocco, until he was 18 years old. He studied philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat. After he was a professor of philosophy in Morocco, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine '' Souffles'' in the mid-1960s, and he wrote many pieces for the cultural magazine. He later participated in the student rebellion against "the repressive and violent acts" of the Moroccan police. In 1966, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halima Ben Haddou
Halima or Halimah or Halime and Halimeh ( ar, حليمة ) /halima/, pronounced ha-LEE-mah, is a female given name of Arabic origin meaning forebearing, gentle, mild-mannered and generous. It may refer to: People with the mononym *Halimah IV, also called Alimah, the sovereign Sultana regnant of the Anjouan sultanate at Nzwani in the Comoro Islands from 1788 until 1792 * Halima, mononym of American model Halima Aden People with the given name Halima *Halima (princess), 6th century princess of the Ghassan kingdom *Halima Aden (born 1997), Somali-American model *Halima Ahmed, Somali political activist * Halima Bashir, author from Darfur * Halima Chehaima (born 1988), Belgian beauty queen *Halima ECheikh, later known as Naama (born 1934), Tunisian singer * Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Moroccan historian *Halima Hachlaf (born 1988), Moroccan runner *Halima Nosirova (1913-2003), Uzbek singer *Halima Tayo Alao (born 1956), Nigerian civil servant Halimah *Halimah bint Abi Dhuayb, the prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Ben Barka
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Abdelkader Benali
Abdelkader Benali ( ar, عبد القادر بنعلي; born 25 November 1975 in Ighazzazen, Morocco) is a Moroccan-Dutch writer and journalist. When he was four years old, he and his family, of Berber background, migrated to The Netherlands and settled in Rotterdam, where his father worked as a butcher. When he was twenty-one his debut novel ''Bruiloft aan zee'' (Wedding by the Sea) appeared and was a huge critical and commercial success. It was translated into many languages. He received the Libris Prize for his second novel, ''De langverwachte'' ("The Long-Awaited"). In addition to novels and plays, Benali has published essays and reviews in respected newspapers and magazines including ''De Volkskrant'', ''Vrij Nederland'', ''De Groene Amsterdammer'', ''Esquire'' and ''Algemeen Dagblad''. Benali is an avid long-distance runner, his personal record being 2:52:19, achieved at the 2007 Rotterdam Marathon. He also wrote a book about his failed attempt to improve his best result, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdeslam Benabdelali
Abd al-Salam ( ar, عبد السلام) is a male Muslim honorific or given name, built on the Arabic words '' Abd'', ''al-'' and '' Salam''. The name means "servant of the All-peaceable", ''as-Salam'' being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names. Because the letter s is a sun letter, the letter l of the ''al-'' is assimilated to it. Thus although the name is written with letters corresponding to ''Abd al-Salam'', the usual pronunciation corresponds to ''Abd as-Salam''. Alternative transliterations include ''Abdul Salam'', ''Abdul Salaam'', ''Abdus Salam'' and others, all subject to variant spacing and hyphenation. Notable people with the name include: People *Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami (1140–1227), Moroccan Sufi saint *Abd As-Salam Al-Asmar (1455–1575), Libyan Muslim saint * Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy (1899–1968), Lebanese actor *Abdus Salam (editor) (1910–1977), Bangladesh journalist *Abdul-Salam Ojeili (1917–2006), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelmalek Belghiti
Abdelmalek Belghiti (1906 in Fes – 2010) was a writer who has been called the prince of the poets of Morocco in the 1950s.Admin, ''Marocwebo'', November 23, 2010, "Décès du poète Abdelmalek Belghiti" http://www.marocwebo.com/deces-poete-abdelmalek-belghiti.html (retrieved 15-7-2012) He published several collections of poetry, a.o. ''Al Manar'' et ''Rah Al Arouah''. An anthology of all his poems was published in 1947. He received several literary prizes. Many of his poems were dedicated to the struggle for the independence of Morocco, like his poems about the protest against the Berber Dahir The document known as the Berber Dahir (, , formally: ) is a ''dhahir'' (decree) created by the French protectorate in Morocco on May 16, 1930. This ''Dahir'' changed the legal system in parts of Morocco where Amazigh languages were primarily spo ..., the bloody suppression following the manifest of independence in 1944 and the deportation of sultan Mohammed V. Abdelmalek was a son o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani
Hafsa or Hafsah ( ar, حفصة; which is very often confused with ''Hafza'' and ''Hafiza'', but all three of them are different names) is an Arabic female given name. It originated from Hafsa, the fourth wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and daughter of second Muslim caliph Umar. It is popular name among Sunni Muslims. People * Hafsat Abiola (b. 1974), a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist * Hafsa Bekri (Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani), Iraqi-Moroccan poet * Hafsa Bint al-Hajj al-Rukuniyya (d. 1190/91), Andalusian poet * Hafsa bint Umar, daughter of Umar ibn al-Khattab and wife of Muhammad * Hafsa Sultan (1479–1534), Ottoman Sultan Selim I's wife and the mother of Süleyman the Magnificent * Hafsa Şeyda Burucu (born 1991), Turkish karateka * Hafsa Bint Sirin (b.651 – d.719), female scholar of Islam and sister of Muhammad ibn Sirin Muhammad Ibn Sirin ( ar, محمد بن سيرين) (born in Basra) was a Muslim tabi' who lived in the 8th century CE. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laarbi Batma
Laarbi Batma (or Laarbi Batma) ( ar, العربي باطما; born in Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia; 1948 - 7 February 1997) was a Morocco, Moroccan musician, poet, singer, writer, actor, and the front man of the group Nass El Ghiwane. Early life Batma grew up in the Hay Mohammadi neighborhood in Casablanca. Batma was very much influenced by the music style of the Mawsim, mawsims of his native region that he used to frequent as a child. Nass El Ghiwane Batma was a founding member of Nass El Ghiwane. He was a vocalist and percussionist for the group until his death in 1997. He was considered the architect of the group. Cinema Batma was the lead actor in the Moroccan movie Le jour du forain, ''Le jour du forain'', directed by Driss Kettani and Abdelkrim Derkaoui. He also starred in Ahmed el-Maanouni's ''Trances (film), Trances'', a documentary on Nass El Ghiwane. See also * Nass El Ghiwane * Hay Mohammadi References * "Adieu Batma", obituary of Laarbi Batma in ''Jeune A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Barbery
Muriel Barbery (born 28 May 1969) is a French novelist and philosophy teacher. Her 2006 novel ''The Elegance of the Hedgehog'' quickly sold more than a million copies in several countries. Biography Barbery was born in Rabat, Morocco, but she and her parents moved when she was two months old. She studied at the Lycée Lakanal, entered the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud in 1990 and obtained her ''agrégation'' in philosophy in 1993. She then taught philosophy at the Université de Bourgogne, in a ''lycée'', and at the Saint-Lô IUFM (teacher training college). After she quit her job, she lived in 2008–2009 in Japan (2008 and 2009). She currently lives in Europe. Her novel ''L'Élégance du hérisson'' (translated by Alison Anderson as ''The Elegance of the Hedgehog'') topped the French bestseller lists for 30 consecutive weeks and was reprinted 50 times, selling over a million copies by May 2008. It has also been a bestseller in Italy, Germany, Spain, South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
