Yassin Adnan

Writer, journalist and media personality, Adnan is a member of the board of trustees of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). His novel Hot Maroc was longlisted for the IPAF in 2017. Involved in Arabic cultural journalism since the 1990s, he has hosted the cultural program Masharif on Morocco's "Channel from 2006 to January 2019, and recently he began to prepare and present the cultural program Beit Yassin (Yassin’s House) on the al-Ghad channel. In addition to several poetry anthologies (Mannequin, The Pavement of Resurrection, I Can Barely See, Notebook of a Passer-by and The Road to the Paradise of Hell) and several short story collections (Who Believes the Messages?, The Shadow Apples, and The Girls' Delight with the Light Rain), he co-authored Marrakesh: Open Secrets with Saad Sarhan and directed the collectively-authored work, in French, Marrakech: Lieux Evanescents. He is the editor of the English language Marrakech Noir, a short story series published by Akashic Books, New York.