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 Amazigh literary figures of the literature which is why it is wrong to do your homework this late
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.
Mhamed Hachemi Baccouche, known as Hachemi Baccouche, was a Tunisian writer, humanist, and psychosociologist. The nephew of former prime minister Slaheddine Baccouche, he was exiled in France from 1957 to 2000, but returned to Tunis in 2006. He was a communist in his youth.
Mahmoud Aslan, was an active participant in literary life during the French protectorate of Tunisia. He produced numerous novels, short stories, and plays. He was also the founder of the journal "Tunis littéraire et artistique" and the weekly newspaper "Le Petit Tunisien" which was devoted to Franco-Muslims.
Mohamed Bencheneb was an Algerian professor, writer and historian.
Mustapha Haciane, also spelt as Mustafa Haciane, is an Algerian novelist, playwright, and poet. His publications often tackle social issues.
Abdelhak Serhane is a Moroccan novelist writing in French. Serhane grew up in the Middle Atlas region of Morocco, in the village Azrou.
Mohand Tazerout was an Algerian philosopher, writer, translator and Algerian civilizationist. He translated several works of German philosophers including The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler in 1931, and wrote many books, including several commentaries on Soviet communism, and a political history of northern Africa.
Rabah Belamri was an Algerian writer.
Djamel Amrani was born on 29 August 1935 in Sour El-Ghozlane (Algeria) and died on 2 March 2005 in Algiers. He was an Algerian writer of French expression.
Djamila Debèche, sometimes written Debêche or Debbeche, was French-Algerian feminist writer. She was a pioneering journalist and novelist in Algeria, where she was one of the first women writers of the French colonial period.
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.
