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El-Hassane Benmouna
BornEl-Hassane Benmouna
Oujda, Morocco
🏳️ NationalityMoroccan
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El-Hassane Benmouna (Arabic:الحسن بنمونة) is a Moroccan writer born in 1963 in the city of Oujda, who has published a number of books, novels, and specialized more in children’s books. He published the novel “The human meat restaurant welcomes you” published in March 2009 by Sinbad publishing and media in Cairo Egypt.[1]

He also published “Stories for My Children to Sleep,” in 2012 a collection of stories issued by the Moroccan Ministry of Culture. The “Ambushes and Traps,” which is also a collection of stories published in Oujda in 2015 by the Literary Procession Association. A collection of short stories “Things We Should Sell,” published in Fez in 2016 by the GlobalNPO. And last but not least the novel “My friend the author” which was published in July 2017 by the word magazine.[2]

Early life and education[edit]

El-Hassane Benmouna was born in 1963 in Oujda, Morocco, where he studied and grew up.[3]

Career[edit]

El-Hassane Benmouna began his career early, publishing in Moroccan, Arab magazines and newspapers since 1983. He started with the alalam magazine, then moved to the Al-Bayan and Almethaq National newspaper, as well as the Moroccan communication, Almounaataf journal, and last Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki Newspaper.[4]

El-Hassane intensified his publication and moved to publishing in the Arab newspapers, where the beginning was from Al-Arabi magazine, then Al-Faisal magazine, Doha magazine in Qatar, Al-Jasra and Cairo magazine in Egypt, Akhbar Al-Adab magazine, Al-Montadaa, Sutuur magazine, Egyptian story, Literary Affairs Magazine, Arrafid magazine، Southern Culture magazine, Ruoaa magazine, Majara magazine, The New Culture magazine, Saysara, Educational Orbits, Aklaam Jadida, Hesmi, Ibdaa magazine, Abaad, Mis magazine, Arabic magazine, Emirates Althaqafiya, Arab Theater, Alarabi Alsaghir, Kuwait magazine, Al-Hilal magazine, Masharif Maqdisia, Aljoubah magazine, Aljadeed magazine, Alrabie alfaslia, Alkalimah, Fada'at Libyan magazine, Al -masar Tunisian magazine, Finoon Egyptian magazine, Ealam Al-kitab, and Al-fusul Al-'arbaea magazine.[5]


El-Hassane Benmouna has also been active online and has published his articles in a number of various electronic magazines and Arab newspapers that have websites on the Internet. Such as Amwague Egypt Newspaper, Azzaman, Ech-Chaab Newspaper, and Al-Arab London. And he was chosen to be a jury member of the Kuwaiti Abdul Aziz Al-Mansour Prize for Children’s Stories for the year 2019.[6]


The writer most prominent work was the novel “The Magician Puts an Elephant in the Palm of His Hand” (Arabic: alsaahir yadae fylaan fi rahat yadih) by Al Maya Publishing House in just 28 pages. It is a short novel dedicated to children, in which he wrote a story of a magician who works wonders. The magician takes a pigeon out of his hat, turns a small candy into a ball, and then it disappears after a few moments. Then the magician turns into a kongoro and a lion, suddenly a huge elephant enters through the gate, and he puts it on his palm. In this short novel, El-Hassane tried to talk, in one way or another, about awakening that is mixed with dreams. The writer also has another novel “Three Ants Make Wonders” (Arabic: thalath namalat ysnen al'aeajib) published by the same house. A children’s novel that talks about three friendly ants; They are Namila, Namula, and Namila, they do wonders, Namila makes boats out of grains of wheat, and Namila likes to weave woolen clothes from tree leaves, while Namila builds nests from straw.[7]


The story “A Head with Three Hairs” (Arabic: ras bithalath shaearat) is a children’s book that was published by Dar Molhimon publishing and distribution in 99 pages. The Moroccan writer told us in this story about a man who lost his hair, but he still has three hairs left so people start whispering and making fun of his three hairs. And he thought about it carefully how he can hide his three hairs to avoid being ridiculed by others, to avoid hearing the word bald from them. Perhaps the man of the three hairs finds importance to those hairs or perhaps he finds a bald lookalike, and they both wonder why their hair fell out and they did not have hair, which makes them proud.[8]


The Moroccan writer published the novel “The Elephant Who Loves” (Arabic: alfil aladhi yuhibu) by Dar Molhimon publishing and distribution in 81 pages. The story of an elephant reading, he loves reading books to the point of all he does is reading and eating. Which made the lion the king of the jungle fear him because he reads. His novel dedicated to children and talks about how much reading added to this elephant, who loved books so much.[9] The Moroccan writer is also famous for his novel "The human meat restaurant welcomes you" (Arabic:mateam allahm aladmi yurahib bikum), 112-page. Which was published by Dar Sinbad publishing and media. Although it is a little long novel, but it is intended for children as is most of the author's works. In this novel, El-Hassane healed his fragmented self, as he says through his human experiences. He formulated them in storyboards in order to confront the falsity of society and the constant urgency to uncover the veils.[10]


El-Hassane Benmouna, published the novel “The Crow Plays the Flute” (Arabic: alghurab yaezif ealaa alnaay), by Dar Al Hadaek for printing, publishing and distribution in 32 pages. In this very short novel, the Moroccan writer dealt with the story of the crow who suddenly decided to become a magnet, so he imitates the sounds of animals, he began to roar, meow, howl and purr.[11] But when he heard the sound of the nightingale, he confessed to himself, saying. So this is how singing is, and if it is not melodious, what benefit can be gained from it? The crow decided to give up singing and choose another job for him that suits him and is good at it. After his first short novel about the elephant, El-Hassane wrote again about the same animal in another novel entitled "The Elephant Learns How to Play" (Arabic: alfil yataealam kayf yaleab) by Dar Asala for printing, publishing and distribution in 16 pages. It deals with the issue of playing and sharing, trying to highlight that the phrase an elephant can only eat is incorrect because he too desires to play, even though he does not know how to play.[12]


The Moroccan writer continued his extensive production of story collections related to animals. He published a short book entitled “The Mask Hunter” (Arabic: sayaad al'aqniea) by Dar Al Hadaek for printing, publishing and distribution in 32 pages. It included a story of resourcefulness and intelligence, between a hunter and the forest animals that overcome him with their cooperation and planning. Which frighten him with the hugeness of their legs And ears. Which made him leave the hunting, and move to another profession where he designs animated doll masks for forest animals.[13] In this novel “The Child Who Believed His Drawings” (Arabic: altifl aladhi sadaq rusumuh) by Dar Al-Banan in 31-pages. He wrote a story told through clever leaps and according to a logical sequential word game. The adventure of a child who lives through imagination in the events of his drawings.[14]

Opinions[edit]

El-Hassane believes that Moroccan production in the field of children's literature is characterized by limited spread. This is due to the fact that Moroccan publishing houses do not encourage writing, as he says, given the high material costs that this requires. El-Hassane also believes that Moroccan writers do not pay attention to this literature, with the exception of a few of them. Who believed in the importance of addressing children through narrative, poetic and theatrical texts.[15]

El-Hassane Benmouna believes that writing was created to express feelings and values. Express joys, sorrows, pains, the contradiction and coexistence between life and death, and the values that make societies progress. El-Hassane believes that writing directed at the child should be without ideology, or intellectual or partisan representations.[16]

He also believes that children's literature is spread through various media, including magazines interested in children's literature, such as Alarabi Alsaghir and Majid. It also holds those who author the academic courses responsible for employing what writers have written in this field of children's literature, especially in the courses of the first and primary stages.[17]

list of his works[edit]

This is a list of the most prominent works of Moroccan journalist and writer El-Hassane Benmouna:[18]

  • The human meat restaurant welcomes you (Arabic:mateam allahm aladmi yurahib bikum) a novel issued by Sinbad Publishing and Media in Cairo, Egypt in March 2009.
  • Stories for my children to sleep (Arabic: qasas li'abnayiy hataa yanamawa) a collection of stories issued by the Moroccan Ministry of Culture in 2012.
  • Ambushes and Traps (Arabic: kamayin wafakhakh) a collection of stories published by the Literary Procession Association in Oujda in 2015.
  • Things we should sell (Arabic: al'ashya' alati yanbaghi lana bayeuha) a collection of short stories published by the Maqaribat Foundation in Fez in 2016.
  • My friend the author (Arabic: sahibay alkatib) a novel published in the word magazine in July 2017.
  • The hunter of good deeds (Arabic: sayid alhasanat) a novel published by the new house of peace in Casablanca in 2019.
  • A forest in my head (Arabic: fi rasi ghabatan) a children's story published by Dar Arwa in Saudi Arabia in 2017.
  • The Child Who Believed His Drawings (Arabic: altifl aladhi sadaq rusumuh) a short novel published in 2016 by Dar Al Banan.
  • We Are the little ones (Arabic: nahn alsighar) a short novel published by Dar Al Banan in Lebanon in 2018.
  • The kitten doesn't own a bike! (Arabic: 'ala yamtalik alqatu alsaghir daraajatan!) a short novel for children published in 2020 by the Moroccan Ministry of Culture.

Short stories[edit]

  • Ladybugs are learning our language (Arabic: aldaeasiq tataealam lughatana) Egypt 2016.
  • The crocodile sells crying (Arabic: altimsah yabie albuka') Egypt 2016.
  • Mask Hunter (Arabic: sayaad al'aqniea) Lebanon in 2018.
  • Raneen paint speech (Arabic: Raneen tarsum alkalam) Morocco in 2018.
  • The ladybug who lost her color (Arabic: aldaesuqat alati fuqidat lawnaha) Saudi Arabia in 2019.
  • The man who sows songs (Arabic: alrajul aladhi yazrae al'ughniaat) Lebanon in 2019.

References[edit]

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  7. "الحسن بنمونة | مجلة الجديد". 2020-08-06. Archived from the original on 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  8. "الكاتب المغربي الحسن بنمونة يتحدث عن ابداعاته في أدب الطفل. - تيلي ماروك". 2021-06-28. Archived from the original on 2021-06-28. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
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  17. "AL ITIHAD". 2021-06-27. Archived from the original on 2021-06-27. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
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