2019 ENCATC International Study Tour

Kenza Sefrioui is a literary critic and publisher in Casablanca. In charge of the cultural section in  the Moroccan magazine Le Journal hebdomadaire from 2005 to 2010, she now contributes to Tel Quel and www.economia.ma.

She studied comparative literature at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV) and published her doctoral thesis : The review Souffles(1966-1973) : Hopes of cultural revolution in Morocco(Editions du Sirocco, Grand Atlas Prize, 2013). She also codirected Casablanca, œuvre ouverte (Le Fennec, 2013), the increased republication of Casablanca, fragments d’imaginaire and a second volume of contemporary writings, Casablanca, poème urbain (Le Fennec, 2013) and cosigned Casablanca, nid d’artistes (Malika Editions, 2018).  She is one of the founders of En toutes lettres, a publishing house dedicated to journalistic essays, where she published Le livre à l’épreuve about the book sector in Morocco (2017).