Mohammed Zniber

Who is Mohammed Zniber?

Dr. Mohammed Zniber was a Moroccan writer and historian. He also played an important role in the period of struggle for Morocco's struggle for independence from the French. He was a son of Moufti Boubker Zniber, the initiator of the petition against the Berber Dahir of the colonial French rule. In February 1944, he was arrested by the French together with his brother and father and spent three months in prison. After the war he was a history teacher and head of the history department of the University of Rabat. He is especially well known for his writings on the resistance fighters Frantz Fanon and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi and the history of his native town Salé.