Malika Oufkir
Malika Oufkir ( Arabic مليكة أوفقير Central Atlas Tamazight ⵎⴰⵍⵉⴽⴰ ⵓⴼⵇⵉⵔ Malika Ufqir ; * April 2, 1953 in Marrakech ) is a Moroccan author . She was born as the eldest daughter of Interior Minister and Defense Minister Mohammed Oufkir . Oufkir has five siblings, namely Abdellatif, Myriam (Mimi), Maria, Soukaina and Raouf.
Life
At the age of five years was Oufkir of Sultan Mohammed V adopted. At the age of 16 she returned to her family. After the second failed coup attempt in Morocco against the King of Morocco, Hassan II , in the early 1970s, General Mohammed Oufkir was executed. Hassan II and Malika Oufkir placed the surviving remainder of her family under house arrest from 1973 to 1977 . All members of the family were then sent to a prison in the Sahara , where they lived in inhumane conditions. From 1987 she was allowed to return to Morocco, but she was still under arrest. She was only released in 1991.
In 1999 Malika Oufkir wrote the book La prisonnière (in German: The prisoner ) about these experiences together with the Tunisian writer Michèle Fitoussi . She has also published several other works.
On October 10, 1998, she married Eric Bordreuil. The couple currently lives in Paris . The Moroccan actress Leila Shenna is one of her cousins.
Works published in German
- with Michèle Fitoussi : The prisoner. A life in Morocco. (Original title: La prisonnière , translated by Christiane Filius-Jehne), by Schröder, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-547-77248-6 ; as paperback: Ullstein TB 36249, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3-548-36249-6 .
- Freedom: looking for a new life. (Original title: L 'etrangère , translated by Olaf Roth), von Schröder, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-547-71116-5 , as paperback: Ullstein 37209, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-548-37209-9 ( Autobiography).
Web links
- Literature by and about Malika Oufkir in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Malika Oufkir. In: Bladi.net. December 14, 2006, accessed August 26, 2009 (French).
- ↑ a b c Malika Oufkir. In: casafree.com. Archived from the original on March 2, 2008 ; accessed on 23 October 2018 (French, original website no longer available).
- ↑ Mokhtar Ghambou: Malika Oufkir: the American Making of a Moroccan star. In: Wafin's website. Retrieved August 26, 2009 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oufkir, Malika |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bordreuil, Malika Oufkir |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Moroccan author and daughter of Mohammed Oufkir |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morocco |