Mohammed Ben Brahim

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El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (

El Glaoui.[1]

According to his biographer Omar Mounir he was "considered a nationalist by the French, a traitor by the nationalists, a alem by the man in the street and a rascal by the ulemas."

Fes
. He worked as a university professor for a short period and, after that as a journalist.

Many of Ben Brahim's poems are put to music and still popular in present-day Morocco. Karima Skalli is one of his work's interpreters.

Mehdi Khayat interprets Ben Brahim's poetry in his musical work, titled "Mehdi Khayat and the poet of Marrakech"

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Écrivains marocains du Protectorat à 1965, p. 27-29 "Mohammed Ibn Ibrahim"
  2. ^ Omar Mounir, Le Poète de Marrakech : "Individu inclassable, inconstant en qui les nationalistes voyaient un traître et les Français un nationaliste, l'homme de la rue le voyait âlim, les oulamas le voyaient voyou".

External links

  • Said Hajji.com: fragments from the journal Al Maghrib no. 396 (1940) [1] (translated in English)
  • Bouchra Lahbabi, "Maoussimyyat : hommage à Ben Brahim, poète de Marrakech", Le Matin, 28 - 10 - 2001 [2] (retrieved 15-7-2012)
  • maroc-hebdo.press: Un poète chez les hommes (second article) [3] (in French)