El Habib Louai

El Habib Louai is a native of Morocco. He obtained an MA degree in comparative studies from the University of Ibn Zohr in Agadir, Morocco. He is currently working as a junior high school teacher of English at Azzaytoun, Agadir, Morocco. He has been waived a tuition by the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University to participate in seminars and workshops organized at the university of Bilgi in Istanbul, Turkey. In addition to his ardent passion for education and teaching, Louai is deeply involved in various projects and activities relating to poetry, spoken word, jazz and literary translation. He edited and translated an anthology devoted to contemporary Moroccan poetry. The anthology has been published by Big Bridge Magazine http://www.bigbridge.org/BB16/features/morocco/moroccoindex.htm. In relation to his PhD dissertation Louai published articles and translations of poems by Beat Poets such as Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Amiri Baraka. All the articles and translations have been published by the daily Moroccan newspaper Rissalat Al Ouma, Al Quds Al Arabi and Qaba Qawsayn. Louai has been waived a tuition by the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, England to take an online course entitled Bridging the Great Divide: Muslim Jewish Encounter. He has also been granted a scholarship by Chicago School of Poetics to take an online course on hybrid texts. His poems have been published in various international literary magazine, journals and reviews such as Big Bridge Magazine, Danse Macabre du Jour, Contemporary Literary Review India, Palestine Chronicle, Troubadour 21, Sagarana , Istanbul Literary Review, Indigo Rising Magazine, Radiuslit, Pirene’s Fountain, the Tower Journal, and the Romanian Contemporary Critical Horizons for which he volunteered as a contributor in 2011-2012. His translation of a collection of poems by the exiled Iranian poet Ali Abdelrezaei is available in poetrymag.ws. He was the representative of 100 Thousand Poets for Change event in Agadir, Morocco in its first and second edition (2011-2012). Louai has also been rewarded Aimee Grunberger scholarship by Naropa University to participate in Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics summer creative writing program. He has been invited to read at various venues in Europe and the USA such as Moe’s Books in San Francisco with Michael Rothenberg, Terri Carrion and Youssef Alaoui, the Bowery Poetry Club with Bob Holman
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Address: Rue Alal Ben Abdelah, n° 94 Agafay. Taroudant 83000. Morocco.