Mohammed Ben Brahim
El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (1897–1955) was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakesh of the first part of the 20th century. He wrote poems for both king Mohammed V and for his opponent El Glaoui.
Mohammed Ben Brahim
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El Houari Mohammed Ben Brahim Assarraj (1897–1955) was a poet from Morocco. He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakesh of the first part of the 20th century. He wrote poems for both king Mohammed V and for his opponent El Glaoui.
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According to his biographer Omar Mounir he was "considered a nationalist by the French, a traitor by the nationalists, a alem by the man in the street and a rascal by the ulemas." Mohamed Ben Brahim studied at the Ben Youssef Madrasa in Marrakesh and the Al-Qarawiyyin University of Fes. He worked as a university professor for a short period and, after that as a journalist. Many of Ben Brahim's poems are put to music and still popular in present-day Morocco. Karima Skalli is one of his work's interpreters. Mehdi Khayat interprets Ben Brahim's poetry in his musical work, titled "Mehdi Khayat and the poet of Marrakesh".
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- 1.Écrivains marocains du Protectorat à 1965, p. 27-29 "Mohammed Ibn Ibrahim"
- 2.Omar Mounir, Le Poète de Marrakech : "Individu inclassable, inconstant en qui les nationalistes voyaient un traître et les Français un nationaliste, l'homme de la rue le voyait âlim, les oulamas le voyaient voyou".
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- Omar Mounir, Le Poète de Marrakech (=Shair Al-Hamra), Editions La Porte, Rabat, 2001.
- Ben Brahim, Mohammed (1949). "Ilayka Ya Ni Ma Sadiq"(To you my dear friend). Tetuan, Morocco: Hassania Publishing Company
- Ahmed Cherkaoui-Ikbal, Le poète de Marrakech sous les tamis (1958)
- Abdelkrim Ghallab, L'Univers du Poète de Marrakech (1982)
- Ahmed al Khoulassa, Le Poète de Marrakech dans l'histoire de la littérature contemporaine (1987)
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