Author's Biography


 Mohamed Saïd Raïhani (in Arabic: محمد سعيد الريحاني), born on December 23, 1968, is a member of  the Moroccan Writers' Union. He holds PhD. in Translation from King Fahd Advanced School of Translation (Tangier/Morocco) in 2023, M.A. in Creative Writing (English Literature) from Lancaster University (United Kingdom) in 2017, M.A. in Translation, Communication & Journalism from King Fahd Advanced School of Translation (Tangier/Morocco) in 2015 and B.A. in English Literature from Abdelmalek Essaâdi University (Tétouan/Morocco) in 1991.

 Works in English

·     Magically Yours! (Short Stories), 2023.

·     Translation Quality Assessment of the Arabic Translation of English Literature, 2025.

·     Translatable, Untranslatable, 2025.

·     Back to Innocence (Short Stories), in preparation.

·     The Three Keys (An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story), in preparation. 

 Short Story Collections in Arabic

·     Waiting for Morning (Short Stories), 2003.

·     Season of Migration to Anywhere (Short Stories), 2006.

·     Death of the Author (Short Stories), 2010.

·     A Dialogue between Two Generations (Short Stories) in 2011 (A collection of short stories co-authored with Moroccan short-story writer Driss Seghir).

·     Behind Every Great Man, There Are Dwarfs (Short Stories), 2012.

·     No to Violence (Short Stories), 2014.

Flash Fiction in Arabic

·     Fifty Short-Shorts: Theme of Freedom (Flash Fiction), 2014.

·     Fifty Short-Shorts: Theme of Dream (Flash Fiction), 2024.

·     Fifty Short-Shorts: Theme of Love (Flash Fiction), 2025. 

 Novels in Arabic

·     The Enemy of the Sun, the Clown Who Turned Out to Be a Monster (Novel), 2012.

·     I Would Have Loved to Tell It All (A Photo-Autobiographical Novel), 2025.

·     The Star of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan (A Trilogy), in preparation.

·     When Lucifer Will Write His Autobiography (A Decalogy), in preparation. 

Interviews in Arabic Collected in Published Books

·     Anas Filali, "Raïhanyat" (Forty Interviews with Mohamed Saïd Raïhani), Amman/Jordan: Sayel Publishing Co, 1st Ed., 2012.

·     Collective Work, "With Raïhani in His Cultural Lodge" (Thirty Interviews on Culture, Art & Literature with Mohamed Saïd Raïhani), Tétouan/Morocco: Maktabat Salma Al-Thaqafiah, 1st Ed., 2016.  

Phone: 00212661682298

Address: P.O. Box: 14555, Branes 2, Tangier 90000, Morocco

Email: saidraihani@gmail.com

 

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Mohamed Saïd Raïhani is a Moroccan novelist and translation studies scholar born on December 23, 1968. He is a member of Moroccan Writers’ Union. He holds a PhD degree in Translation from King Fahd Advanced School of Translation in Tangier/Morocco in 2023, an M.A. degree in Creative Writing (English Literature) from Lancaster University (United Kingdom) in 2017, a second M.A. degree in Translation, Communication & Journalism from King Fahd Advanced School of Translation in 2015, and a B.A. degree in English Literature from Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tétouan/Morocco in 1991.
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