Mohamed Achaari

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Mohamed Achaari is a Moroccan writer and politician. He was born in 1951 in Moulay Driss Zerhoun. He studied law at the Mohammed V University and graduated in 1976. He published a collection of short stories, six collections of poetry and one novel. Some of his works have been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Dutch. He wrote articles for several Moroccan newspapers like Al-Alam and Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki. During the early eighties he was jailed for his political activities. He has been elected president of the Moroccan Union of Writers twice in the period 1989-96. In 1997 Achaari was elected delegate for Rabat and in 1998 he became Minister of Culture and in 2002 delegate for Fez.

[edit] External links

• Banipal, magazine of modern Arab literature (with photo of Mohamed Achaari) [1] (retrieved 04-16-2008)

[edit] Bibliography

• Jardin De La Soledad/The Garden of Solitude ISBN 9788488599803 (Poem collection in Spanish translation), translated by Khalid Raissouni and Trino Cruz, ed. by Quorum, 2005