Abdelkebir Khatibi was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist. Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. His collection of essays Maghreb pluriel is one of his most notable works.
Edmond Amran El Maleh was a Moroccan writer and activist.
Ahmed Sefrioui was a Moroccan novelist and pioneer of Moroccan literature in the French language.
Mohammed Khair-Eddine was a Moroccan poet and writer. He was among the most famous Moroccan Berber literary figures of the 20th century.
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.
Abdallah Zrika is one of the most famous poets of Morocco. His poetry is set in free verse, based on spoken language and unrivalled in contemporary Arabic literature in its spontaneity. For the Moroccan youth of the politically and socially repressive years of the 1970s, he represented the ideal of poetic writing, of freedom of living and expression.
Latifa Baka, is a Moroccan author of novels and short stories.
Abdallah Laroui is a Moroccan philosopher, historian, and novelist. Besides some works in French, his philosophical project has been written mostly in Arabic. He is among the most read and discussed Arab and Moroccan philosophers.
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.
Abdelkrim Ghallab was a Moroccan political journalist, cultural commentator, and novelist. He is an important figure both in the literary and political field.
Ahmed Taib El Alj is a well known Moroccan writer of Moroccan Arabic Zajal poetry and drama.
Mohamed Leftah was a Moroccan novelist and literary critic who wrote in French. He wrote ten novels and worked for Matin du Sahara and Temps du Maroc.
Patrick Grainville is a French novelist.
Mohamed Bencheneb was an Algerian professor, writer and historian.
Abdelhak Serhane is a Moroccan novelist writing in French. Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou.
Lucienne Favre was a 20th-century French writer and playwright. She was an algerianist. She was among the first to doubt the authenticity of the Muslim persona of the Jewish-Algerian writer Elissa Rhaïs.
Michel Caffier was a French journalist, writer, and literary critic. He is the author of an abundant work centered on Lorraine: historical novels, essays and reference works, including the Dictionnaire des littératures de Lorraine.
Jean Proal was a French writer.
L'Amante du Rif is a film co-produced by Morocco, Belgium and France, directed by Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar and released in 2011. The film, a loose adaption of the novel of the same name written by Nejjar's mother, Noufissa Sbaï, was screened at multiple film festivals.
