Mourad El Kadiri

Mourad Kadiri is a poet, a researcher and a cultural activist. He obtained a BA in Arabic Language and Literature from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Mohammed V University, Rabat, followed by an advanced studies diploma in the Structure of Poetic Discourse in Middle East and North Africa from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat. In 2012, he earned a PhD in modern Moroccan literature from the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fez.
A Moroccan cultural activist since the 1980s, Kadiri is a cultural management trainer, a researcher in cultural policies, the director of the House of Poetry in Morocco, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Moroccan Association for Cultural Policies. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Moroccan Coalition for Culture and the Arts; former studies advisor with the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research; and former advisor to the Moroccan Minister of Culture.
Kadiri’s writings are primarily dedicated to poetry and literary research. He has published four poetry anthologies: Letters of the Palm (1995); Spinning Girl (2005); Bird of God (2007); and Tramway (2015). He has also published a critical study, Literary aesthetics in the Modern Moroccan Poetry (2012). His poetry has been translated in several languages and some of his poems have appeared in anthologies of Moroccan poetry.