Artwork by Mohammed MRabet

Mohammed MRabet comes from Morroco - he is a well known artist in Tangiers and here is an example of his work: (More to come next time I goto Tangiers)



A Biography of Mohammed MRabet
Mohammed Mrabet is a Moroccan storyteller who was born in Tangier in 1936. He is of Berber heritage whose family moved to Tangier from the Rif mountains. A fisherman and street kid for most of his life, he became a friend of Paul Bowles in 1960 when Bowles was impressed by his storytelling skills. Bowles became the translator of Mrabet's many prodigious oral tales told from a kif'd and utterly non-anglicized point of view. Mrabet is also an artist of intricate ink drawings which have been shown at various galleries in Europe and America. He is his own genre, although mostly legible to the West via his association with Bowles, Burroughs, Tennessee Williams and Bryon Gysin.


I have had the pleasure of meeting Mohammed MRabet in 2000 and he is a good friend.