Ahmed El Majjati

Ahmed El Majjati, who also signed as El Maadaoui, was born in Casablanca in 1936. After a degree in Arabic literature in Damascus, he obtained a diploma of advanced studies in Rabat in 1971, then a state doctorate, and had a career as a professor of Arabic literature, in Fez and then Rabat according to Madarat. A poet and critic, he published little; Poetry International ranks him, with Mohammed Bennis, among the avant-garde poets who modernised Moroccan poetry, and Madarat recalls the frankness of his judgements on his contemporaries. He died in 1995.

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• PoetryالفروسيةAhmed El Majjati · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature