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Mohamed Aniba

Mohamed Aniba Al-Hamri (1946 - December 25, 2024) was a Moroccan poet. Al-Hamri is considered one of the most important contemporary poets of Morocco. As critic Najib Al-Aufi says, "He is a distinguished 70s poet, standing at the forefront of the courageous 70s poets who endured the harsh times of the years of the burning fire and bullets, immersing themselves in the struggle with their poetry." He was born in 1946 in Casablanca, where he completed his preparatory and secondary studies at the Moulay Idriss Al-Azhar Institute, then went on to study at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Fes, where he earned a degree in Arabic literature in 1969, and later obtained a certificate of advanced studies in 1975. He worked as a secondary school teacher in Casablanca. In 1970, he joined the Moroccan Writers' Union, and his poetry was published in various Moroccan and Arab newspapers and magazines. Among his major works are: "Love, the Farce of Centuries" (1968), "Longing for Sailing" (1973), "Elegy for the Crucified" (1977), "The Illness of Lovers" (1987), "Tremors of Place" (1996), "The Poison of this Whiteness" (2000), and "Celebrating the Blood of Poetry" (2020). He also has writings on poetry and literature, including "On Poetic Rhythm: A Prosodic Study" (2002), "Execution of Poets" (2020), and "When Death Misses Its Way" (2020).