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Mohamed Laamiri

After a first degree from the English Department in Rabat, Mohamed Laamiri studied for an MA and later for a Ph.D at Queen Mary College London (Thanks to a British Council Award). Teacher of English at the University Abdelmalik Es-Saadi in Tetouan, Morocco, he was the first chair of its new English Department in 1984. In 1991 he became Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters in Tetouan and from 1993 to 2005 he was Dean of the Faculty of Letters of Oujda, Morocco. Now he is Associate professor at the Institut des Etudes Africaines, Rabat.

 

His research has been focused on British writings on Morocco with a special interest in travel writings and captivity tales dealing with North Africa. In 1990 he founded and chaired The Research Group for Moroccan Studies in English (REGMOSE), a group concerned with research in British writings on Morocco. Under his instigation and supervision a number of successful doctoral theses on British writings on Morocco were launched and successfully defended.

 

In recent years he has been interested by Moroccan literature in English and as Dean of the Faculty of Oujda, he organized in collaboration with the British Council, Rabat, the First Forum for Creative Writers in English in March 2001.The proceedings of this encounter were published as Moroccan Literature in English, Publications of the Faculty of Letters, Oujda, 2001.

 

He has published many articles in English, French and Arabic mostly dealing with the image of Morocco and North Africa in British Writings. He is co-editor (with Sara Mills) of a special issue on Morocco in the electronic journal Working Papers on The Web at Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Currently he is working on a book on Morocco in British Writings and on a bibliography on North African literature in English.

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