1. Fouad Laroui (1958)

Moroccan Writer

uad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer born in Oujda Morocco. After his studies in the Lycée Lyautey he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées where...

2. Mohammed Berrada (1938)

Moroccan Writer

Mohammed Berrada also transliterated Muhammad Baradah is a Moroccan novelist literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco's most important modern authors. From 1976 to...

3. Abdelfattah Kilito (1945)

Moroccan Writer

Abdelfattah Kilito is a well known Moroccan writer. He was born in Rabat in 1945. He is the author of several books in Arabic and in French. He has also...

4. Malika Oufkir (1953)

Moroccan Writer

Malika Oufkir is a Moroccan writer and former disappeared. She is the daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir and a cousin of fellow Moroccan writer and actress Leila Shenna. Malika...

5. Ali Lmrabet (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Ali Lmrabet is a Moroccan journalist and a member of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights. Ali came from a modest Berber family was born in a small village called...

6. Salim Jay (1951)

Moroccan Writer

Salim Jay is a Moroccan novelist essayist and literary critic. He was born in Paris from a Moroccan father and a French mother. He has written about 20 books numerous...

7. Mohamed Said Raihani (1968)

Moroccan Writer

Mohamed Saïd Raïhani is a Moroccan translator novelist and short-story writer born on December 23 1968 in Ksar el Kebir north of Morocco. He is a member of Moroccan Writers’...

8. Wafaa Lamrani (1960)

Moroccan Writer

Lamrani is a Moroccan poet. She was featured with two poems The Wail of Heights and I am Consecrated to the Coming One in The Poetry of Arab Women: A...

9. Youssouf Amine Elalamy (1961)

Moroccan Writer

Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a Moroccan writer. He received the prize of best travel account from the British Council International for his book Un Morocain à New York and the...

10. Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944)

Moroccan Writer

Tahar ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his novel L’Enfant...

11. Ahmed al-Madini (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Ahmed al-Madini is a scholar a novelist a poet and a translator from Morocco. He was born near Casablanca in 1947. Al-Madini studied in Paris and was awarded a doctoral...

12. Ahmed Joumari (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Ahmed Joumari was a Moroccan writer and poet. He was one of the pioneers of modern Arabic poetry in Morocco.

13. Mostafa Nissaboury (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Mostafa Nissaboury is a Moroccan poet. Nissaboury was one of the co-founders of the magazine Anfas/Souffles an avant-garde bilingual quarterly that published essays poetry and fiction. Together with Mohammed...

14. Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1552)

Moroccan Writer

Egyptian encyclopedist see Shihab al-Din abu 'l-Abbas Ahmad ben Ali ben Ahmad Abd Allah al-Qalqashandi. Abu l-Abbas Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Qadi al-Miknasi was the leading writer from Ahmad al-Mansur's...

15. Ahmed Lemsih (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Ahmed Lemsih is a Moroccan poet. He writes his poems in Moroccan Arabic. Lemsih writes for the journal Al-Ittih'ad al-Ishtiraki and teaches at a high school in Rabat. His collections...

16. Ahmed Mejjati (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Ahmed Mejjati was an influential Moroccan avant-garde poet.

17. Abdelhadi Said (1974)

Moroccan Writer

Abdelhadi Said is a Moroccan poet. His first collection of poems has received the prix de poésie de l'Union des Écrivains du Maroc when he was 22 years old....

18. Al-Buzidi al-Bujrafi (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Al-Yazid al-Buzidi Bujrafi is a prominent Berber Sufi poet and shaykh of the Alawi-Darqawi order a branch of the Shadhili order. He lives at his Zawiya in Zaghanghan Nador.

19. Mohammed Awzal (1670)

Moroccan Writer

Mohammed Awzal also known as Muhammad ibn Ali Awzal or al-Awzali was a religious Berber poet. He is considered the most important author of the Teshelhit literary tradition. He...

20. Abdelkarim Tabbal (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Abdelkarim Tabbal is a poet. Tabbal first published his poems in 1952 in the magazine Al-Anis. His poems are distinguishable for their use of rhyme and metaphor giving a musical...

21. Mohammed Ben Brahim (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakech of the first part of the 20th century.

22. Mohammed al-Harraq al-Alami (1772)

Moroccan Writer

Sidi Abou Abdallah Mohammed ben Mohammed ben AbdelWahed al-Alami al-Moussaoui al-Harraq was a well known Soufi poet and teacher from Morocco. He was born in 1772 in Chefchaouen and died...

23. Abdallah Guennoun (1908)

Moroccan Writer

Abdallah Guennoun was a famous and influential Moroccan essayist. In 1927 and 1928 he wrote a three-volume book titled An Nubûgh Al Maghribi where he assesses the excellence of Moroccan...

24. Ibn Zaydan (1878)

Moroccan Writer

Abd al-Rahman ibn Zaydan was a Moroccan historian and literary author. He was a great-grandson of sultan Moulay Ismael and is considered one of the best sources on the history...

25. Ibn al-Arif (1088)

Moroccan Writer

Ibn al-Arif or Abul Abbas Ahmad Ibn Mohammed Ibn Musa Ibn Ata Allah al-Mariyyi al-Sanhaji also known as Al-Urruf was a famous Andalusian Sufi.

26. Malik ibn al-Murahhal (1207)

Moroccan Writer

Malik ibn al-Murahhal or Abu l-Hakam/Abu l-Mayd Malik ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Faray ibn Azraq ibb Saad/Munir ibn Salim ibn Faray al-Masmudi al-Malaqi al-Sabti is...

27. Hajj Ali Zniber (Unknow)

Moroccan Writer

Hajj Ali Zniber his full name Ali bin Ahmed bin Abd al-Qadir Zniber Lettam is a Moroccan writer and nationalist. It is known with Abdellah Bensaid having introduced the first...