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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 writer.
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 writer.
Driss Ksikes is a moroccan fiction and nonfiction writer, playwright and scholar. He is professor of methodology and creative writing, and director of Economia, HEM research center in Rabat. His book Le métier d’intellectuel : dialogues avec quinze penseurs du Maroc(The intellectual profession: interviews with 15 Moroccan thinkers),co-authored with Fadma Aït Mous, won the Prix Grand Atlas, Morocco’s most prestigious book prize in 2015. He is one of the two coordinators of Fatema Mernissi chair in Rabat.
He was a Visiting professor at Northwestern University in 2017 and was invited, in 2019, to give a series of lectures in various American universities (UCLA, Tulane, Williams). He has been appointed in 2019 as member of CODESRIA (Council supporting social sciences in Africa) scientific committee.
His last publication is a novel, entitled, Au Détroit d’Averroes. His main interests as a scholar are about media, culture and various ways of mediation between arts and research. Besides analyzing relationships between symbolic expressions and institutions, he has been working for the last ten years on various ways of indiscipline through art fabric, knowledge production and public sphere interactions. His coming book to be published in 2021 is entitled Pathways of indiscipline (Ed. En toutes lettres).
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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".
Driss Basri was a Moroccan politician who served as interior minister from 1979 to 1999. After General Oufkir's death in 1972, and then Ahmed Dlimi's death in 1983, Driss Basri became Hassan II's right-hand man and number two of the regime from the beginning of the 1980s to the end of the 1990s. His name has been associated with the Years of Lead.
Mohamed Choukri was a Moroccan author and novelist who is best known for his internationally acclaimed autobiography For Bread Alone, which was described by the American playwright Tennessee Williams as "a true document of human desperation, shattering in its impact".
Moroccan literature are the written and oral works of Moroccan culture. These works have been produced and shared by people who lived in Morocco and the historical states that have existed partially or entirely within the geographical area of modern-day Morocco. Apart from the various forms of oral literature, the written literature of Morocco encompasses various genres, including poetry, prose, theater, and nonfiction including philosophical and religious literature. Moroccan literature has mainly been written in Arabic and French, and to a lesser extent also in Berber languages, Judeo-Arabic, Spanish, and after the mid-19th century in English.[pages needed] Through translations into English and other languages, Moroccan literature has become accessible to readers worldwide.
Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter and novelist born in Marrakech in 1959. Binebine has written six novels which have been translated into various languages.
Farida Diouri was a Moroccan novelist. She began to write at age 40, and her first novel, Vivre dans la dignité, ou mourir was selected for the Grand Atlas Prize, organized by the French Embassy in Morocco.
Bensalem Himmich is a Moroccan novelist, poet and philosopher with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris, who teaches at the Mohammed V University, Rabat. He served as Minister of Culture from 29 July 2009 to 3 January 2012.
Driss Benhima is a Moroccan businessman. Former chairman of the board and CEO of Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco.
Mohammed Achaari is a Moroccan writer and politician.
Ahmed Toufiq is a Moroccan historian and novelist who has been serving as Minister for Islamic Affairs in the government of Morocco since 2002.
Dr. Michael Peyron is a specialist in the field of Berber language, literature and culture. He is also well known as a writer on tourism in Morocco.
Youssouf Amine Elalamy is a Moroccan writer, visual artist and professor of Media Studies and Communication at Ibn Tofail University. He has published his works mainly in French and occasionally in Moroccan Arabic.
Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani was a Moroccan engineer, economist and writer.
Khalid Alioua is a Moroccan politician of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces party. He was Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the cabinet of Driss Jettou (2002–2007) and Minister of Social Development, Solidarity, Employment, Vocational Training and spokesperson of the Government in the first cabinet of Abderrahman el-Yousfi (1998–2000). He has a degree in accounting and has taught at the University of Hassan II. In early July 2012, he was arrested on charges of embezzlement during his time as president of the CIH bank.
Mohamed Yassine Mansouri is a Moroccan dignitary who has served as the director of Morocco's external intelligence agency, the General Directorate for Studies and Documentation (DGED) under King Mohammed VI since February 16, 2005.
Meryem Alaoui is a Moroccan novelist, entrepreneur, communication and marketing expert, best known for her debut novel, Straight from the Horse’s Mouth, 2020.
Sanaa El Aji is a Moroccan sociologist, writer, and journalist.
Driss Ben-SariFAAS FTWAS is a Moroccan professor of Geophysics at the Department of Civil Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat.
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