Mohammed El Moustaoui

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Mohammed El Moustaoui
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محمد مستاوي

1943 (age 7778)
Nationality Morocco

Mohamed El Moustaoui or Moustaoui (born 1943) is a Moroccan poet and songwriter in Tachelhit. [1]

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Biography

Mohamed was born in 1943 in Mekzert, a small village in Souss. He studied in Taroudant and Marrakech. He was correspondent for the Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki , the official newspaper of the USFP party.

He was one of the first modern writers to write in Tamazight. [2]

In 2003, he retired from university teaching.

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References

  1. "محمد مستاوي". uemnet.free.fr. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  2. Aziz Kich, La littérature amazighe: oralité et écriture, spécificités et perspectives : actes du colloque international, ed. Institut royal de la culture amazighe, 2004, p. 217