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    Hafsa Bekri

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    The document provides biographical information about Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani, a Moroccan poet and scholar. It discusses her educational background and teaching positions. It also mentions some of her published works, including poems and essays. The main topic of the document is Bekri-Lamrani's poem "The Call of Hajar", which references the biblical and Quranic story of Hajar and uses it as an allegory to reject religious divisions and call for unity among women.

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    The document provides biographical information about Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani, a Moroccan poet and scholar. It discusses her educational background and teaching positions. It also mentions some of her published works, including poems and essays. The main topic of the document is Bekri-Lamrani's poem "The Call of Hajar", which references the biblical and Quranic story of Hajar and uses it as an allegory to reject religious divisions and call for unity among women.

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    The document provides biographical information about Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani, a Moroccan poet and scholar. It discusses her educational background and teaching positions. It also mentions some of her published works, including poems and essays. The main topic of the document is Bekri-Lamrani's poem "The Call of Hajar", which references the biblical and Quranic story of Hajar and uses it as an allegory to reject religious divisions and call for unity among women.

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    Hafsa Bekri

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    The document provides biographical information about Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani, a Moroccan poet and scholar. It discusses her educational background and teaching positions. It also mentions some of her published works, including poems and essays. The main topic of the document is Bekri-Lamrani's poem "The Call of Hajar", which references the biblical and Quranic story of Hajar and uses it as an allegory to reject religious divisions and call for unity among women.

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    Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani was born in 1948.

    She studies literature

    and Anglo-Saxon civilization at the University of Paris-VII, - Jussieu, and

    now teaches English at the American Language Center in Rabat and

    from Casablanca, as well as at the Royal Force Air Force base

    Moroccan of Rabat Salé. Bekri-Lamrani is a founding member of the

    first House of Moroccan poetry ; she is also a member of

    Union of Writers of Morocco, at the Research Centre

    Mediterranean, and the sociocultural association Al Madina [the

    City]. Among his publications include East and West in Our

    Imagination [East and west of our imagination] (1992) and his essay,

    "Signs and Sounds of Maghreb Women"

    Maghreb] (1995). She also published a book of tales,

    Jellabiates (2002), which refers to the traditional clothing of

    Moroccan women, the djellaba, and poems, in French and English,

    published in Tenderness and Other Lights, followed by Sparks of Life (2004)

    She is one of the most famous Anglican Moroccan poetesses.

    The protagonist of Bekri-Lamrani's poem, " The Call of Hajar ", is

    an important figure of the 20th century and of Islam. In the Book of the

    of-

    Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, Hajar is an Egyptian servant, appartment-

    nant to Abraham's wife, Sarah. Barren, Sarah decides to make her

    a servant of her husband's concubine; Hajar gives birth to a son, Ishmael,

    legally owned by Abraham and Sarah. But when Sarah,

    her turn, gives birth to a son, Isaac, she asks Abraham to hunt

    And Hajar and Ishmael ; and Hajar wandered in the wilderness with Ishmael, seeking
    until an angel of God showed him a spring. In the

    Koran and Kisas Al-Anbiya [stories of Muslim prophets] Hajar is

    the daughter of a pharaoh who gives her in marriage and not in concubinage to

    Abraham. When this event becomes a source of conflict within the

    marriage with Sarah, Abraham leads Hajar and Ishmael to Mecca, where he

    try to relocate them instead of abandoning them. Travel undertaken by

    Hajar in search of water to save his son, take on a ritual value

    symbolic in Muslim pilgrimages.

    Bekri-Lamrani uses the history of Hajar to evoke the use that

    men of religion, in order to build and exploit the

    hatred. Because the two sons of Abraham, and Ishmael,

    as the ancestors of the Israelites and Arabs, respectively, the history

    makes sense in contemporary conflicts between Jews and Muslims.

    In the powerful vision of Bekri-Lamrani, Hajar reaches out to Sarah,

    thus rejecting the patriarchal discourse that has posited them as

    rivals and enemies, sources of " millennia of tears, blood and

    hatred " among their descendants. It presents a picture of unity and

    women's love, in the face of religious xenophobia, highlighting the-

    a common feature of maternity which unites the two women. In the

    moving conclusion to the poem, Hajar encourages Sarah to come to the

    in the desert, and invites Mary, the mother of Jesus, to come and live in

    peace with them

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