Welcome to Moroccan poetry - July 2004
After our women’s issue of May, we’ve also dedicated the new July issue to modern Moroccan poetry by women, in the person of two of its remarkable representatives: Touria Majdouline and Amina El Bakouri. Thus, we’d like to create a kind of balance in our magazine, giving women poets their due as remarkable contributors to poetic creation in Morocco.
The two woman poets that we present in this issue have, each in their own way, founded their act of writing not only on talent, but on a deep, erudite knowledge of the Arabic poetic tradition. Their poems are haunted by the voices of ancient and modern Arabic poetesses, from the pre-islamic Al-Khanssa’ to Nazek Almalaika, Touria Sekkat and many others, whose impact they struggle to control.
We can say that, given their already remarkable poetic achievement, these two young poetesses, remain highly promising for the future of poetry in Morocco.
