Mohamed Mrabet

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Mohammed Mrabet is a Moroccan storyteller who was born in Tangier in 1936. He is of Berber heritage whose family moved to Tangier from the Rif mountains. A fisherman and street kid for most of his life, he became a friend of Paul Bowles in 1960 when Bowles was impressed by his storytelling skills. Bowles became the translator of Mrabet's many prodigious oral tales told from a kif'd and utterly non-anglicized point of view. Mrabet is also an artist of intricate ink drawings which have been shown at various galleries in Europe and America. He is his own genre, although mostly legible to the West via his association with Bowles, Burroughs, Tennessee Williams and Bryon Gysin.