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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Born in Fez, Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic and poet. Regularly shortlisted...

Mbarek Ould Beyrouk

امبارك ولد بيروك (من مواليد 1957 في أطار) هو روائي وصحفي ومستشار موريتاني، اشتهر بعد إصداره عدة روايات نال بعضها جوائز عالمية. تخرج من جامعة محمد الخا...

Bensalem Himmich

Bensalem Himmich (Arabic: بنسالم حميش) (born in 1948 in Meknes) is a Moroccan novelist, poet and philosopher with a PhD in Philosophy from the Univers...

Azza Filali

Azza Filali (born 1952, in Tunisia) is a Tunisian doctor and writer in the French language. Her novels and stories especially reflect the history of t...

Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami (Arabic: ليلى العلمي, born 1968) is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her Licence de lettres degree in...

Zohra Drif

Zohra Drif Bitat (Arabic: زهرة ظريف بيطاط, romanized: Zuhra Ḍrīf Bīṭāṭ, born 28 December 1934) is a retired Algerian lawyer, moudjahid (a militant of ...

Malek Lakhal

Malek Lakhal is a writer and researcher. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Asameena, where she has written fiction, essays and poetry....

Fethi Benslama

Fethi Benslama (born 1951) is a French psychoanalyst of Tunisian origin. He is a Professor of Psychopathology at Paris Diderot University, and the aut...

Leïla Sebbar

Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is a French-Algerian author. Early life Leïla Sebbar was born on 9 November 1941, in Aflou. The daughter of a French mothe...

Yasmina Khadra

Mohammed Moulessehoul (Arabic: محمد مولسهول; born January 10, 1955), better known by the pen name Yasmina Khadra (Arabic: ياسمينة خضراء), is an Algeri...

Ahmed Bouanani

Ahmed Bouanani (Casablanca, 16 November 1938 - Demnate, 6 February 2011) was a Moroccan film director, poet and novelist. He was best known from the 1...

Ahmed Taibaoui

Ahmed Taibaoui is a professor at the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Management Sciences at the University of Bouira in Algeria. He was awarded...

Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Ahlam Mosteghanemi (Arabic: أحلام مستغانمي), born 13 April 1953, is a notable Algerian writer who is known for being the first Algerian woman to publi...

Dar Al Tanweer

Dar Al Tanweer is a Lebanese publishing house founded in 1975 with three branches across Beirut, Cairo and Tunis. The leading publishing house has won...

Mirzaq Biqtash

Mirzaq Biqtash (13 June 1945 – 2 January 2021) (Arabic:مرزاق بقطاش), Algerian writer and novelist. He published more than fifteen novels, translations...

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly

ArabLit, ArabLit Quarterly, and ALQ Books are a translator-centered collective that produces a website, quarterly magazine...

Yassin Adnan

Yassin Adnan (born 1970) is a Moroccan writer and broadcaster. He was born in Safi, but grew up in Marrakech. As a journalist, he has been heavily eng...

Malika Rahal

Historian, contemporary Maghrib and Algeria. Also, Nebraska.

Abdelilah Belkziz

عبد الإله بلقزيز كاتب مغربي معاصر حاصل على شهادة دكتوراة الفلسفة من جامعة محمد الخامس بالرباط. ويشغل منصب أمين عام المنتدى المغربي العربي في الرباط، و...

Editions Elyzad

Éditions Elyzad is a Tunisian publishing house, with its headquarters in Tunis. Founded in 2005, it publishes French literary works. Associated per...

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Born in Fez, Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic and poet. Regularly shortlisted...