Malika al-Fassi

Deceased Person

1908 – 1991

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Who was Malika al-Fassi?

Malika al-Fassi was a Moroccan writer and nationalist. She was the only woman to sign the independence treaty of Morocco in 1944. She was a student of Abdeslam Serghini.

At a very young age she wrote articles under the pseudonyme El Fatate, later after her marriage, under the pseudonyme de Bahitate El Hadira, and not El Hadara. At that time there was a well-known Egyptian journalist, Malik Hifni Nasif, who used the name Bahithat El Badiyya. Her articles appeared in Majellate El Maghrib of Saleh Missa and Rissalate El Maghrib of Saïd Hajji, and later in the daily newspaper El Alam, since 1934. She also wrote plays which have been staged and some small novels, a.o. La Victime.

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Born
1908
Nationality
  • Morocco
Died
1991

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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