Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani

Who is Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani?

Mohammed al-Habib al-Fourkani was a Moroccan writer, historian and politician who played an important role during the struggle for independence, during which he was exiled and imprisoned two times by the French. He studied at the Ben Youssef School of Marrakech before he joined the national independence mouvement in 1943. His first newspaper articles appeared in the journal At-Taqaddoum and many were to follow. He was one of the chief editors of the magzin Majallat Al-Adib and the newspaper Al-Mouharrir. He wrote two volumes of poetry Noujoum fi Yadi and Doukhane min Al-Azmina Al-Mohtariqa. He was a member of parliament for the USFP between 1978 and 2002.