Malika Mezzane
Born	(1960-05-15) May 15, 1960 (age 63) Ait Attab, Morocco
Years active	2004–2023

Malika Mezzane is a Moroccan 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.^{[ citation needed]} She is a former Philosophy teacher.^{[ citation needed]} She has published 17 works in 22 publications, in 2 languages. ^[1] 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 Maghrebi immigrants in particular. ^[2] She is considered by many^{[ by whom?]} the Berber ambassador to the Kurdish People, especially after she met the president of Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, in July 2018. ^[3] She is also a supporter of the state of Israel and has been outspoken on their right to be in "their homeland". ^{[4] [5]}

Publications

Poetry

Mezzane has written several collections of poems in Arabic:

• Geneva, the other maze (2004)
• If only I could forgive this world (2005)
• If my exile is completed in you (2005)
• 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. ^{[6] [7]}

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