User:Abdeaitali/Mehdi Bennouna

Mehdi Bennouna is a Moroccan nationalist, writer and journalist born in Tetouan (Morocco) and died in Rabat . He is also the founder of the Maghreb Arab Press Agency in 1959.

Biography
He left Morocco for Nablus in Palestine at the age of eleven, without his parents, and began high school in 1929 at the Najah School.

After a year in Morocco in 1936, he returned in 1937 to the Middle East, Cairo, first to begin medical studies that he could not pursue, then to obtain a degree in journalism in 1941, after which he worked at the newspaper Al Ahram until he could return to Morocco at the end of the Second World War in 1944. In 1937, he participated in the constitution of the Almagreb Al Aqsa Defense Committee.

From 1944, he is a teacher at the Free Institute of Tetouan, participates in the founding of the Workers' Union affiliated to the Party of National Reform (PRN) of which he is elected member of the Central Committee and he marries Khadija Slaoui on the 29th with who will have four children (1946, 1949, 1951, 1956).

Back in Tetouan in 1953, he directs the newspaper Al Oumma , organ of the PRN he will leave at independence in 1956 for the Press Service of the Royal Cabinet of Mohammed V, including the preparation of the trip of the ruler in New York in 1957. He launches Maghreb Arab Press (MAP), private agency that It will preside from its inauguration in 1959 until 1975, after notification of nationalization in 1973 by the Ministry of the Interior. Between 1958 and 1962, he assisted in the creation of Tunisian (TAP), Libyan (JANA), Senegalese (APS), Malian (APA) and Algerian (APS) press agencies, and then supervised the launch of the French news agency. (AIIC) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in 1973-74.

He died in Rabat at dawn on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 and was buried in his hometown of Tetouan.

Publications
He is the author of some books, the first of which, in the English language (Our Morocco, The story of a just cause), was clandestinely published in Morocco in 1951 and the last in Arabic Morocco ... the critical years (Almaghrib ... assanaouat alharija) was published in 1989.