Abdelkebir khatibi biography of georgetown

Abdelkebir Khatibi (Arabic: عبد الكبير الخطيبي) (11 February 1938 – 16 March 2009) was a prolific Moroccan literary critic, novelist, philosopher, playwright, poet, and sociologist.

Affected in his late twenties by the rebellious spirit of 1960s counterculture, he challenged in his writings the social and political norms upon which the countries of the Maghreb region were constructed. His collection of essays Maghreb pluriel is one of his most notable works.

Career

Khatibi was born on 11 February 1938, in the Atlantic port city of El Jadida. By the age of 12, he began to write poems, in Arabic and French, which he sent to the radio and newspapers.^[1] He studied in the French colonial school system, at Lycée Lyautey.^[2] He earned his doctorate in sociology under the Tunisian intellectual Albert Memmi at the Sorbonne in 1965.^[3][2] His dissertation, Le Roman maghrébin [The Maghribian Novel], which examines the