Hafsa Bekri

Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani (born 1948) is a Moroccan poet and writer of a book of short stories, Jellabiates (2001). She published: Tendresse et autres lumières and Sparks of Life, two collections of poetry at Aïni Bennai editions, Casablanca (2004). She was invited for a writing residence in England (Art-UK - Writing on the Wall) in Hadrian's Wall region where there were Moroccans at the beginning of the second century. A journal of this residence is published on the net: Berbers in Solway: Journal of a Moroccan poet. In 2009 she published The call of Hagar in Women writing Africa, The Northern Region (Feminist Press New York.) She is a member of the Centre d’études et de recherche sur la Méditerranée and of Le Cercle Shahrazade. She was a nominee in 2012 for the Moroccan Women Mentoring and Networking Award.[1][2]

She lives in Casablanca, where she is an English Teacher at the American Language Center. She is a founding member of the first House of Poetry in Morocco and of the Center for Mediterranean Center and In 2001 became a member of the Union of Moroccan Writers.[3]

In 1995 Hafsa participated in the 4th Conference on Women in Beijing where she presented a research paper entitled : "Signs and Sounds of Maghrebi Women".[3]