Fadma El Ouariachi

(1957) is a self-willed word artist. She was born in the North-Moroccan Farkhana, a village near Nador. In 1998 she published her collection Yesremd - ayi wawar (Educated by language). The collection was written in the Tarafit language. With these poems she established her reputation as a poet, as they were received with much praise. Well-known artistst from the Rif, like Khalid Izri, Ithran, Mimoun Rafroua en Irizam use some of her poems as texts for their songs. Her poems are emancipatory: she wants to break taboos around women and the Amazigh language. Fadma El Ouariachi works as a researcher at the IRCAM, the Royal Institute of the Amazigh culture.