Mohamed Said Raihani’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Mohamed Saïd Raïhani (in Arabic: محمد سعيد الريحاني) is a Moroccan translator, novelist and short-story writer born on December 23, 1968 in Ksar el Kebir, north of Morocco. He is a member of Moroccan Writers’ Union, holder of M.A. in Translation, Communication & Journalism from King Fahd Advanced School of Translation in Tangier/Maroc and B.A. in English Literature from Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tétouan/Maroc.

Literary Works in Arabic

• Waiting for the Morning (Short Stories) in 2003
• The Season of Migration to Anywhere (Short Stories) in 2006
• Death of the Author (Short Stories) in 2010
• A Dialogue between Two Generations (Short Stories) in 2011 (Co-authored with Driss seghir)
• The Enemy of the Sun, the Clown Who turned Out To Be A Monster (Novel) in 2012
• Behind Every Great Man, There Are Dwarfs (Short Stories) in 2012
• No to Violence (Short Stories) in 2014
• Fifty Short-Shorts: Theme of Freedom (Short short Stories) in 2015

Critical Works in Arabic

• The Three Keys: An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story (Vol. 1: “The Key to Dream”), 2006
• The Three Keys: An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story (Vol. 1: “The Key to Love”), 2007
• The Three Keys: An Anthology of Moroccan New Short Story (Vol. 1: “The Key to Freedom”), 2008

Journalistic Reseaches & Investigations in Arabic

• The History of Manipulating Professional Contests in Morocco (Journalistic Investigation) Vol. 1, 2009.
• The History of Manipulating Professional Contests in Morocco (or Letters to the Minister of Education in Morocco) (Journalistic Investigation) Vol. 2, 2011.
• Authenticity of Arab Media Slogan Through the Making of Press Image (Case of Aljazeera Slogan, The Opinion & the Other Opinion), 2015.

Onomastic Researches in Arabic

• The Singularity Will (A Semiotic Study on First-names) in 2001

Works Translated into English

• Waiting for the Morning (Short Stories), Bloomington (Indiana/USA): Xlibris, 2013.

Interviews Collected in Published Books

• Anas Filali, “Raihanyat” (Forty Interviews with Mohamed Said Raihani), Amman/Jordan: Sayel Publishing Co, 1st Edition, 2012.
• Collective Work, “With Raihani in His Shrine” (Thirty Interviews on Culture, Art & Literature with Mohamed Said Raihani), Tetouan/Morocco: Maktabat Salma Al-Thaqafiah, 1st Edition, 2016.