Edmond Amran El Maleh

Collection title

Moroccan writers

ID

2MT00150

Source

SOREAD-2M (MA)

First broadcast date

12/09/1996

Production year

1996

Abstract

Edmond Amran El Maleh was born in 1917 in Safi (Morocco), in a Jewish family of Essaouira. Responsible for the Moroccan Communist Party (then illegal), he fought for the national independence of Morocco. El Maleh was a professor of philosophy and then a journalist in Paris. At the beginning of 1980, at the age 63, he began writing a series of novels and short stories. His writings are imbued with a memory that celebrates Jewish and Arab cultural symbiosis of a Morocco which is Arabic, Berber and Jewish. In 1996 ,he received , Morocco's Grand Prix for all his works.

Type

video

Production companies

• 2M - Own production

Broadcaster

2M - 2M

Audiovisual form

Magazine

Personalities

• Berrada Mustapha
• Maghnia Abdelghani

Primary theme

Languages and literatures

Secondary themes

• Society and way of life / Education, teaching

Credits / Cast

• Ben Abbas Taarji Hind - Journalist

Period of events

• 1996

Map locations

• Morocco - Atlantic coast - Rabat

Original language

French

Media running time

24m45