Bashir Qamari ( ar, بشير القمري; 10 January 1951 – 24 June 2021) was a Moroccan literary critic, novelist and playwright.

Biography

Qamari was born in

Nador Nador ( Riffian-Berber: ⵏⴰⴷⵓⵔ) is a coastal city and provincial capital in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco with a population of about 161,726 (2014 census). Nador city is separated from the Mediterranean Sea by a salt lagoon nam ...

in 1951. He studied Arabic literature at the

Mohammed V University Mohammed V University (, french: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat), in Rabat, Morocco, was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. History The uni ...

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...

(1975 MA, 1987 PhD). He was professor at the faculty of literature in

Kenitra Kenitra ( ar, القُنَيْطَرَة, , , ; ber, ⵇⵏⵉⵟⵔⴰ, Qniṭra; french: Kénitra) is a city in north western Morocco, formerly known as Port Lyautey from 1932 to 1956. It is a port on the Sebou River, Sebou river, has a popul ...

and taught contemporary literature at the Mohammed V University in Rabat. He started working for ''

Al-Alam ''Al-Alam'' ( ar, العَلم, lit=The Flag) is an arabophone Moroccan daily newspaper. History and profile ''Al Alam'' was founded in September 1946. The paper, based in Rabat, is the organ of the nationalist Nationalism is an idea a ...

'' in 1972, then he joined the Union of Writers of Morocco in 1976, where he became a member of its central office from 1996 to 2004. On 24 June 2021, he died in Rabat due to illness.

References

Bibliography

* QAMARI, Bashir. ''al-Muh:ârib wa bi-l-aslih:a. Kenitra: al-Bűkîlî li-l-Nashr'', 1995. (the fighter and his weapons) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''al-Tinnîn'' . Rabat: Űbtîmâ, 1998.(the dragon) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Fî al-infitâh al-nas:s: wa-l-qirâ''´. Rabat: Qâfila al-Kitâb, 2002. (literary criticism) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Fî al-tah:lîl al-darâmâturdjî lil-nas:s.'' Tánger: Manshűrât Shirâ`, 1999. (analysis and dramaturgy of texts) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''H:afriyât al-mudun.'' Kenitra: al-Bűkîlî li-l-Nashr, 1996. (on excavations) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''H:arb al-basűs.'' (the war of camels) * QAMARI, Bashir. "Huwiyya al-naqd al-adabî bi-l-Magrib". in: Madini, Ahmad Hadjmuri Abd al-Fattah eds., ''Al-Adab al-magribi al-h:adîth `alâmât wa qas:âs:id.'' Rabat: Manshűrât Râbit:a Udabâ` al-Magrib, 2006, 65-98. (on literary criticism in Morocco) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Iklîdin: tarâdjîdiâ malh:amiyya.'' Kenitra: Al-Bűkîlî lil-T:ibâ`a wa-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzî, 2002. (Ekledin: a tragic epic) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Madjâzât dirâsât fî al-ibdâ`al-`arabî al-mu`âs.ir.'' Beirut: Dâr al-Âdâb , 2000. (on contemporary Arab literature) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Radj`a Laylâ al-`Amariyya.'' Rabat: Qâfila al-Kitâb, 1999.(The return of de Layla al-Amariyya. Theatre) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Shi'riyya al-nas:s: al-riwâ´î.'' Rabat : Al-Bayâdir , 1991.(literary criticism concerning poetry) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''Sirr al-bahlawân . Kenitra: al-Bűkîlî li-l-Nashr'', 1997. (the secret of the country-side) * QAMARI, Bashir. ''T:arâ´iq tah:lîl al-sard al-adabî.'' Rabat: Manshűrât Ittih:âd al-Kuttab al-Magrib, 1992. (analysis of the literary narrative) 1951 births 2021 deaths People from Nador Moroccan dramatists and playwrights Moroccan male writers Male dramatists and playwrights Academic staff of Mohammed V University Moroccan literary critics Mohammed V University alumni 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century male writers 20th-century non-fiction writers 21st-century non-fiction writers 21st-century male writers 20th-century Moroccan writers 21st-century Moroccan writers Male non-fiction writers {{morocco-writer-stub