Abdellah Hammoudi

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La victime et ses masques: essai sur le sacrifice et la mascarade au Mahgreb. Paris: Editions du Seuil. 1988.

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Awards

In 1998, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. [7]

In 2005, he won the second Prize Lettre Ulysses Award for the "Art of Reportage", for his non-fiction work entitled Une saison à la Mecque: récit de pélerinage. [8] [9]

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Abdellah Hammoudi
Born1945 (age 7778)
NationalityMoroccan
Academic background
Alma mater University of Mohammed V Pantheon-Sorbonne University