Culture
Ksar El Kebir is reputed for the leading artists, writers, poets and sportsmen on national plane.
In sports, Legendary football player Abdeslam Laghrissi still keeps his record as the best marksman in the Moroccan championship with 26 goals in 1986.
In music, there is Abdessalam Amer (died 1979) who is well known in the Arab world as a unique music composer. He left such eternal songs as: Red Moon, Beach, Leaving, The Last Oh!...
In poetry, Mohamed El Khammar El Guennouni (died 1991) is pioneer in modern Moroccan poetry and is regarded as master of free poetry in Morocco. there is also poetess Ouafae El Amrani as a brilliant figure in the new poetic generation.
In novel-writing, There are such great novelists as Mohamed Aslim, Mohamed Harradi, Mohamed Tetouani, Mohamed Sibari and Moustafa Jebari.
In short-story writing, there is the phenomenal Mohamed Said Raihani who is a trilingual writer (he writes in Arabic, French and English) and who has finished his fortieth manuscript before reaching the age of forty!
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