Malika Mezzane Explained

Malika Mezzane
Birth Date:	15 May 1960
Birth Place:	Ait Attab, Morocco
Years Active:	2004–2023

Malika Mezzane is a Moroccan poet, a writer, and a Berber rights activist.

Career

Mezzane studied in Fez where she earned a BA degree in philosophy from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. She is a former Philosophy teacher. She has published 17 works in 22 publications, in 2 languages.^[1] In 1992 she travelled to Switzerland, where she resided for nine years until 2001, during which time she devoted herself to writing on a regular basis, committed to defending human rights in general and those of Maghrebi immigrants in particular.^[2] She is considered by many the Berber ambassador to the Kurdish People, especially after she met the president of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, in July 2018.^[3] She is also a supporter of the state of Israel and has been outspoken on their right to be in "their homeland".^{[4] [5]}

Publications

Poetry

Mezzane has written several collections of poems in Arabic:

• Geneva, the other maze (2004)
• If only I could forgive this world (2005)
• If my exile is completed in you (2005)
• When the dead promised us (2006)

Novels

In 2019, she wrote her first novel "ما أصعب ألا أراك", in which she supports the unification of the Kurds under a single state.^{[6] [7]}

References

1. Web site: Malika Mezzane. WorldCat Library Catalog.
2. Web site: Hommage à la grande et respectueuse militante et poétesse amazighe Malika Mazan. 2021-06-04. www.amazighworld.org.
3. Web site: Rawezh. Muhamad. (بالصور) الرئيس بارزاني يستقبل الشاعرة والروائية الامازيغية مليكة مزان. In photos, President Barzani receives Berber poet and noveler Malika Mezzane. 2021-06-04. www.basnews.com.
4. Web site: Staff Writer. Amazigh Activist: Arabs Are Zionists, Jews Have Right to Establish Their State in Palestine. 2021-06-04. Morocco World News. en.
5. Web site: Malika Mazan-A Zionist Saint from the Atlas Mountains; Moroccan Land of Dissidence. 2021-06-04. blogs.timesofisrael.com. en-US.
6. Web site: قراءة في رواية "ما أصعب ألا أراك" للكاتبة الأمازيغية مليكة مزان. 2021-06-02. Siba. ar.
7. Web site: Sardar. Sattar. Moroccan Poet Pays Tribute to Mustafa Barzani. 2021-06-04. www.basnews.com.