Dr. Michael Peyron (born 1935) is a specialist in the field of Berber language, literature and culture. He is also well known as a writer on tourism in Morocco. Michael Peyron was born in the Cannes, France. He has studied in

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(at the universities of

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and

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). His doctoral thesis at the Institut de Géographie Alpine, Grenoble's University, was on an

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area in the

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Mountains of Morocco: "Tounfit et le pays Aït Yahia" Peyron taught at the Faculty of Letters of

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 ...

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(1973–1988) and in the English Department at

Grenoble University The Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA, French: meaning "''Grenoble Alps University''") is a public research university in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 resea ...

(1988–95). In the late 1980s, the focus of his career switched from English to

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studies. From 1995 to 1997 he was a guest lecturer at King Fahd School for Translation (

Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...

, Morocco), and since 1997 has been a visiting professor at

Al Akhawayn University Al Akhawayn University ( ar, جامعة الأخوين, Berber: ''Tasdawit En Wawmaten'') is an independent, public, not-for-profit, coeducational university located in Ifrane, Morocco, from the imperial city of Fez, in the Middle Atlas Mount ...

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.Bio of Michael Peyron on AMIDEAST (Education Abroad Program in

(retrieved on January 28, 2009)

Publications

Michael Peyron's publications include two volumes of bi-lingual Berber-French poetry and a collection of folktales in a Berber-English edition. Since 1985 he has regularly contributed entries to the

Encyclopédie berbère ''Encyclopédie berbère'' (English: ''Berber Encyclopaedia'') is a French-language encyclopaedia dealing with subjects related to the Berber peoples (''Imazighen'' in Berber language), published both in print editions and in a partial online ...

* "Deux contes berbères dans le parler des Ayt Ali ou Brahim de Tounfit (Haut Atlas marocain).", in: ''Etudes et documents berbères'' 8, 1991, pp 53–62 *''"Isaffen ghbanin": Rivières profondes : poésies du Moyen-Atlas marocain traduites et annotées'', Wallada, 1993, *

Arsène Roux Arsène Roux (February 5, 1893 in Rochegude – July 19, 1971) was a French Arabist and Berberologist. He was born in Rochegude and emigrated to Morocco (then occupied by France) in his early twenties where he started studying Classical Arabic, Mo ...

and Michael Peyron, ''Poésies berbères de l’époque héroïque, Maroc central (1908–1932)'', Aix-en-Provence: Edisud 2002 *Harry Stroomer and Michael Peyron, ''Catalogue des archives berbères du "Fonds. Arsène Roux »'', Berber Studies 6, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln 2003 *“Langue poétique littéraire : enjeux et mutations chez les poètes du Maroc central”, ''La littérature amazighe : oralité et écriture, spécificités et perspectives'', Rabat, I.R.C.A.M., 2004 : 191-199 *“Bringing Berber literature out of the academic wilderness”, ''Expressions maghrébines'', Universistat de Barcelona & Florida State University, (

Marta Segarra Marta Segarra Montaner (born October 25, 1963) is a Spanish philologist, university professor, and CNRS researcher who develops her work mainly in the fields of gender and sexuality studies, biopolitics and posthumanism, and cultural studies (l ...

, ed.), Vol.4, n°1, 2005: 15-33 *“Le paysage imaginaire de la poésie amazighe du Moyen-Atlas”, Linguistique amazighe : les nouveaux horizons, (A. Allati, éd.), Tétouan, Fac. des Lettres, 2006 : 224-236 *''Tassawt Voices, by Mririda n-Ayt Attiq and René Euloge, translated by Michael Peyron'', AUI Press, Ifrane 200

* ''Great Atlas: Traverse Morocco'' (two volumes), West Col Productions (first published in 1989), *''The Amazigh Studies Reader'', 2008 *''Berber Odes'', 2010 *''Mountains worth living for'', 2019 *''The Berbers of Morocco: A History of Resistance'', I.B. Tauris, 2020

References

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