Saida Menebhi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Saida Menebhi

Moroccan poet and activist

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Marrakesh, Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1977

Profession: writer, teacher, poet, politician, trade unionist, feminist

Nationality: Morocco

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Saida Menebhi (1952, Marrakesh - 11 December 1977, Casablanca) was a Moroccan poet and activist of a Marxist revolutionary movement Ila al-Amam.
In 1975, she, together with five other members of the movement, was sentenced for seven years of imprisonment for anti-state activity.
In the jail in Casablanca, she went on hunger strike and died on the 34th day of the strike.Her poetry, collected and published in 2000, is considered a prime example of Moroccan revolutionary and feminist literature.
She wrote in French.