Rita El Khayat
Biography of Rita EL KHAYAT
Rita El Khayat, also known as and published under the name Ghita El Khayat, (b. 1944, Rabat, Morocco) is Moroccan psychiatrist, anthropo-psychoanalyst, writer, anthropologist. In Rabat, she enjoyed the opportunity to attend modern schools, culminating in her graduation from Medical School. During her studies she was also active as Radio speaker, TV and Cinema artist.
Thereafter she accepted a residency as a Psychiatry student in Casablanca. However, finding this not properly challenging, she moved to Paris where she graduated in three fields of Medicine: Psychiatry, Medicine of Work & Ergonomics, and Spatial Medicine.
While in Paris she also studied Classical Arabic at the prestigious Ecole des Langues “Orientales” and began to write; having authored 30 books to date.
In 1999 she founds the Association Ainï Bennaï to widespread the culture in Morocco and in Maghreb and in 2000, the same Association also becomes a Publishing House and among its cultural premises we can read as follows: “...The Universalism is promoter of dream and to be immersed in the first lines of a romance, or of an ethno-socio-cultural essay allows to believe that sensitivity and intelligence will save the World...”.
Her strong involvment in favour of women emancipation and social rights is known world-wide.
One of the cutest Intellectual Woman in Maghreb, versatile researcher and eclectic writer, she is Author of more than 350 hundreds articles and 30 Books.
She is Professor of Anthropology of the Knowledge at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University G. D'Annunzio (Italy).
Bibliography
Books
Le Monde Arabe au Féminin - (L’Harmattan, Paris, 1985).
Le Sept Jardins - Ed. L’Harmattan Parigi, 1995.
Le Maghreb des Femmes - (Marsam, Rabat 2001).
Le Somptueux Maroc des Femmes - (Marsam, Rabat, 2002).
Une Psichiatrie Moderne pour le Maghreb - (L’Harmattan, Paris)
La Folie, El Hank – (Eddif, Casablanca, 2000)
La Femme dans le Monde Arabe (2001).
Le Livre des Prénoms du Monde Arabe - (Eddif, Casablanca 2002 alla settima edizione).
Le Désenfantement - (Editions Ainï Bennaï, Casablanca 2003)
Le Sein (Editions Ainï Bennaï, Casablanca, 2003)
Les Arabes riches de Marbella, (Editions AInï Bennaï, Casablanca, 2004)
L’Oeil du Paon - (Editions Ainï Bennaï, Casablanca, 2004)
La nonagénaire, ses chèvres et l’îlot de Leila – (Editions Ainï Bennaï, Casablanca, 2006)
Le Fastueux Maroc des traditions (Editions Ainï Bennaï, Casablanca, 2007).
Her works have also been translated and published in Italy, Germany, Malta, USA
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