Mohammed Berrada
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Mohammed Berrada also transliterated Muhammad Baradah, (born 1938 in Rabat
) is a Moroccan
novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco
's most important modern authors.
From 1976 to 1983, Berrada was the president of Morocco's writers union. He teaches Arab literature at the faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in Rabat
. He is a member of the advisory board of the Moroccan literary magazine Prologue.
Berrada belonged to a literary movement that wanted to experiment with new techniques of writing (what Moroccan critics call attajrib (experimentation). The text does not give much weight to the plot and is written in independent scenes, images, thoughts and portraits. In the field of language, dialects take on an important role, like for instance Fassi (the dialect of Fez
) together with wordplay and allusions.
Since 1978, Berrada has been the husband of Leila Shahid
, ambassador of the State of Palestine
to the European Union
.
Rabat
Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...
) is a Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
novelist, literary critic and translator writing in Arabic. He is considered one of Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
's most important modern authors.
From 1976 to 1983, Berrada was the president of Morocco's writers union. He teaches Arab literature at the faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in Rabat
Rabat
Rabat , is the capital and third largest city of the Kingdom of Morocco with a population of approximately 650,000...
. He is a member of the advisory board of the Moroccan literary magazine Prologue.
Berrada belonged to a literary movement that wanted to experiment with new techniques of writing (what Moroccan critics call attajrib (experimentation). The text does not give much weight to the plot and is written in independent scenes, images, thoughts and portraits. In the field of language, dialects take on an important role, like for instance Fassi (the dialect of Fez
Fes, Morocco
Fes or Fez is the second largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 1 million . It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region....
) together with wordplay and allusions.
Since 1978, Berrada has been the husband of Leila Shahid
Leila Shahid
Leila Shahid She is the daughter of Serene Husseini Shahid and thus a member of the Al-Husayni clan. She is the great-great-granddaughter of the Baha'i prophet Baha'u'llah though she is not a Baha'i herself....
, ambassador of the State of Palestine
State of Palestine
Palestine , officially declared as the State of Palestine , is a state that was proclaimed in exile in Algiers on 15 November 1988, when the Palestine Liberation Organization's National Council adopted the unilateral Palestinian Declaration of Independence...
to the European Union
European Union
The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...
.
Books
- Daw al-harīb (fleeting light) (1993) : The relation of a painter with two women of different generations, the mother and the daughter.
- Dirāsāt fī al-qiṣṣah al-ʻArabiyah : Waqāʼiʻ nadwat Miknās (Bayrūt : Muʼassasat al-Abḥāth al-ʻArabiyah, 1986.)
- Le théâtre au Maroc : tradition, expérimentation et perspectives (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998) .
- L'ubat al-Nisyan (the game of forgetting) (Rabat: Dar al-Aman, 1986.): the story of an intellectual about his life, from his childhood to adulthood in Morocco in the middle of the 20th century.
- Like a summer that will not come back (Sinbad, 2001) Memories of the summer of 1956 when the author studied in CairoCairoCairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...
. - Imraʼat al-nisyān : riwāyah (Casablanca: Nashr al-Fanak, 2001.)
- Faḍāʼāt riwāʼīyah (Rabat: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, 2003.)
- Siyāqāt thaqāfīyah : mawāqif, mudākhalāt, marāfi (Rabat: Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, 2003.)
External links
- The voice of the author: the Mediterranean and the Morrocan vision, his thoughts on the idea of fiction and on being 'cosmopolitan'