Ahmed Taib El Alj

Ahmed Taib El Alj (9 September 1928 – 1 December 2012) was a Moroccan writer of Moroccan Arabic Zajal poetry and drama.^[1] He received several prizes and decorations for his service to Moroccan Arabic language theatre.

El Alj was born in Fes. He wrote more than forty plays and adapted more than thirty works for the stage. According to Salim Jay, the work of al-Aldj is a "treasure of the culture of humanity".^[2] He rewrote, in Moroccan Arabic, works by Molière, Shakespeare and Brecht and had a great influence on Moroccan popular culture. His work was markedly influenced by French theater, especially the plays of Molière and Pierre Beaumarchais. He died in Rabat.

In 1973, he was awarded the prize of Literature of Morocco, and in 1975, the Medal of Intellectual Merit of Syria.

• Wazzâni, Hasan al-(ed). Dalîl al-Kuttâb al-Magâriba A`d:â` Ittih: al-Magrib. Rabat: Manshűrât Ittih:âd Kuttâb al-Magrib, 1993, p. 293

• Al-Barnît:a. Rabat: Mat:ba`a al-Ma`ârifa al-Djadîda, 2001.
• Al-Mashrah: ba`ada al-Mut:laq: mumârasât, ishkaliyyât wa tatallu`ât, LAHBABI, Muhammad Aziz ed., Al-Masrah: al-Magribî bayna al- ́ams wa-l-yawm. (Moroccan theater yesterday and today) Témara: Bayt ́Âl Muh:ammad `Azîz Lah:ababî, 1998, 43-50.
• al-Sa'd. Rabat: al-Djama'iyya al-Magribiyya li-l-Ta ́lîf wa-l-Tardjama wa-l-Nashr, 1986.
• Al- ́Ard wa-l-dhi ́ âb: masrah:iyya fî qasmayn. Rabat: Wizâra al-Shu ́űn, al-Thaqâfiyya, 1994.
• Binâ ́ al-wat:an. Rabat: Masrah: Muh:ammad al-Jâmis, 1988.
• Du'â ́ li-l-Quds. Rabat: s.e, 1980.
• Yűhâ wa shadjara al-tufâh. Tánger : Wakâla Shirâ ́li-l-Jidamât al-`Ilâm wa-l-Ittis:âl, 1997.

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