Abdelmajid Benjelloun

Abdelmajid Benjelloun was born in Casablanca in 1919. His father, a merchant, took him as a child to Manchester, then brought the family back to Fez; there he studied at the Quranic school and then at the Qarawiyyin, before leaving for Egypt. A graduate in letters of the University of Cairo, he took part there in the founding of the Arab Maghreb bureau, of which he was secretary general until independence. Back in Morocco in 1956, he directed the editorial staff of the daily al-Alam, then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was ambassador to Pakistan. He died in 1981.

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• Novelفي الطفولةAbdelmajid Benjelloun · 1957not translated into EnglishLiterature