Lotfi Akalay

Lotfi Akalay (born 1943, in Tangier) is a Moroccan writer and businessman. He is well-known because of his articles in Al Bayane, La Vie Économique, Charlie Hebdo and Jeune Afrique. He also presented a radio-program on jazz and classical music (Radio Mediterranee Internationale).

In 1996 he published his first novel Les nuits d´Azed and in 1998, Ibn Battouta, Pince des Voyageurs.

Akalay studied economy and political sciences in Paris, worked with the Royal Air Maroc and ran a travel agency in Tangier. In 1990 he started to write for journals and magazines. In 2006 he published a collection of his chronicles in one book Les Nouvelles de Tanger which is no longer available. All his old and new chronicles are now published through Amazon website.

References

• Pascal Airault, "Morâleur par nature", Jeune Afrique, 23 July 2006