Driss Ksikes | |
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 Driss Ksikes during Maghreb des Livres 2015 | |
| Born | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Genre | Journalism (Tel Quel magazine) |
Driss Ksikes (born 1968 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan journalist.
Driss Ksikes | |
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| Driss Ksikes during Maghreb des Livres 2015 | |
| Born | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Genre | Journalism (Tel Quel magazine) |
Driss Ksikes (born 1968 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan journalist.
He had been an editor-in-chief of the francophone Tel Quel magazine. In 2006, he left TelQuel to be the editor-in-chief and director of publication of the arabophone and darijophone Nichane magazine. Ksikes wrote two plays ( "Ils" and " Le Saint des Incertains" and published a novel: Ma boite noire.
His article "L’image (délicate) des Prophètes" [1] was the subject to several complaints of antisemitism in Belgium and France whereby he accused the Jews to have as religion business and politics.
In December 2006, Ksikes and another journalist, Sanaa al-Aji, were prosecuted for "defaming Islam and damaging morality" after the publication of a subject treating the Moroccan Humour. The religious sides of some first time published jokes referring to the Islamic religion, Muhammad and Hassan II, the late king of Morocco. He received a three-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay fines of $8,000. He has also been banned from working for two months.
Driss Chraïbi was a Moroccan author whose novels deal with colonialism, culture clashes, generational conflict and the treatment of women and are often perceived as semi-autobiographical.
Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist, novelist and filmmaker. He formerly worked for twelve years for the newspaper Libération. Robert's books, films and press interviews, denouncing the opaque workings of the Clearstream clearing house, earned him into more than 60 lawsuits in France, Belgium and Luxembourg by banks, such as Bank Menatep and BGL, as well as the Clearstream company. In 2008, he was involved in a polemic with Philippe Val and journalist Edwy Plenel in relation to the Clearstream affair.
TelQuel, is a French-language Moroccan weekly news magazine. It is privately owned, and is known for its resolute opposition to Islamist ideology in Morocco.
Mass media in Morocco includes newspapers, radio, television, and the Internet.
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Ahmed Reda Benchemsi is a Moroccan journalist. He is the founder and was the publisher and editor of TelQuel and Nichane magazines.
Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
The history of the cinema of Morocco dates back to "The Moroccan Goatherd" by Louis Lumière in 1897. During the French protectorate, films were produced and directed by French filmmakers, and in 1952, Orson Welles directed his Othello in the historic city of Essaouira. Since independence in 1956, Moroccan film directors and producers have produced a growing number of films, some of which have been met with growing international success.
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Lamalif was a monthly Moroccan political and cultural magazine published in French between 1966 and 1988.
Moroccan Ladies is a monthly women's magazine published in Arabic, English, and French in Casablanca, Morocco.
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Ali Anouzla is a Moroccan journalist, known for his critical articles of King Mohammed VI's rule. Since December 2010 he has been the editor-in-chief of the online media platform Lakome, which he co-founded along with Aboubakr Jamaï. Lakome was most notably behind the uncovering of the Daniel Galván scandal in which Mohammed VI was found to have pardoned, as a gesture "demonstrating good relations between him and King Juan Carlos I of Spain" a Spanish serial child rapist sentenced to 30 years in Morocco of which he spent only a year and a half. The scandal led to unprecedented spontaneous demonstrations against the Moroccan monarch in early August 2013. On 17 September 2013, Ali Anouzla was arrested in a raid against his home in Rabat, officially for having linked to an El Pais article which contained a video allegedly posted by AQIM and hosted on the website of the Spanish newspaper. He was later charged with "Knowingly providing material assistance to terrorists acts". Many observers saw this as a revenge for the Daniel Scandal episode.
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Jules Noriac, real name Claude, Antoine, Jules Cairon,, was a French journalist, playwright, writer, librettist and theatre director.
Meryem Alaoui is a Moroccan novelist, entrepreneur, communication and marketing expert, best known her debut novel Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, 2020.
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Marie-Louise Belarbi was a French-Moroccan bookseller, publisher, editor, and writer. Born in France, she spent most of her life in Morocco, where she established a popular bookstore, Carrefour des Livres, as well as a publishing house for French, Moroccan and Maghreb literature. She published works by several notable writers, including Françoise Sagan, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Driss Chraïbi, Abdellah Taïa and others. She also wrote two books, a novel and a memoir. In 2001, she was awarded the position of an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her contributions to publishing and literature.
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