Mohammed Berrada
was born in 1939 in Rabat, Morocco, and grew up in Fez. He graduated in Arabic Literature from Cairo University and has a PhD from the Sorbonne. He was a founder member of the Union of Moroccan Writers and its president three times. He is Professor of Arabic Literature at Mohammad V University, Rabat. He has written many works on Arabic literature and literary criticism and published a collection of short stories, and two novels in English translation, The Game of Forgetting, (Quartet Books, 1987) and Al-Daw’ al-Harib [The Fugitive Light].
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Banipal No 3 October 1998
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