Malika Mezzane is a Moroccan people 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.
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
immigrants in particular.
In July 2018, she met the president of
Kurdistan Region,
Masoud Barzani.
She is also a supporter of the state of
Israel and has been outspoken on their right to be in "their homeland".
Publications
Poetry
Mezzane has written several collections of poems in Arabic:
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Geneva, the other maze (2004)
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If only I could forgive this world (2005)
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If my exile is completed in you (2005)
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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.
