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Moderated by the writer Amina Achour and hosted by Ms. Daoud and the two writers Karine Joseph and Kenza Sefrioui, this meeting was an opportunity to celebrate the journalistic experience and the intellectual, literary and activist career of Zakya Daoud, particularly during the period (1966-1988) when she directed the French-language magazine “Lamalif”.
In a speech for the occasion, Mrs. Daoud reviewed her rich career in journalistic and publishing work, recalling her experience in the management of “Lamalif” which she founded. A magazine that embodied various creative and intellectual expressions in the fields of literature, plastic art and political writing.
On this occasion, Ms. Daoud shared her passion for literature. “There is a fine line between literature and journalism,” through what she called “journalistic storytelling.”
This correlation is clearly evident in the novel “Zaynab, Queen of Marrakech,” said Ms. Daoud.
Karine Joseph, also a journalist and founder of the publishing house “Sirocco”, stated that “Zakya Daoud managed to distinguish herself during a period marked by political and social turbulence, thanks to her fine writing, which she demonstrated both in her journalistic and novelistic writing”.
Ms. Daoud made the magazine “Lamalif” a true contemporary laboratory of thought by interviewing key figures in the history of Morocco and writing ultra-sharp journalistic analyses, she testified.
As for Kenza Sefrioui, the journalist and founder of the publishing house “En toutes lettres”, she discovered the literary and historical importance of Zakya Daoud’s career while preparing her doctoral thesis entitled “The Souffles Review, 1966-1973… The Hopes of a Cultural Revolution in Morocco”, emphasizing that the novelist’s works were among her main references.
“I felt in the writer’s works a kind of unparalleled simplicity,” said Ms. Sefrioui, who is impressed by Zakya Daoud’s style, which “stands out from literary exaggeration, by approaching subjects in a direct manner without neglecting the rhetorical techniques that serve the text as an idea.”
Zakya Daoud is the author of a number of works including “Feminism and Politics in the Maghreb” (1993), “Moroccans on Both Banks” (1997), “Moroccans on the Other Bank” (2004), in addition to a collection of biographies of Abdelkrim El Khattabi, Hannibal and Juba II.
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