Presence
Mohammed Bennis participates, since the 1970s in Arabic poetry festivals, and, from 1980, in numerous international poetry festivals as diverse as in Europe, Canada, the United States, and in Latin America. Profiles on his work have appeared in magazines Ars plus, an Albanian Literary journal, nr 8 e diel, 31 August 2003; al Shu'arae review, The poets, a quarterly cultural review of House of Poetry in Ramallah, N 28-29, spring-summer, 2006; and Banipal literary magazine, Magazine of Modern Arab Literature, N 29, London, Summer on 2007. The Associations of writers and Moroccan University researchers have dedicated to his work days of study. In France, he has been awarded, in 2002, the rank of knight in the order of the Arts and Letters. He is also an honorary member of “World Haiku Association” in Japan.
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