Fawzi Boubia
Fawzi Boubia (Arabic: فوزي بوبية), born in 1948 in Khemisset, is a Moroccan intellectual. Citizen of East and West, he works as a university professor and German-speaking writer for a culture of dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean. Biography. Fawzi Boubia was born in 1948 in Khemisset Morocco, Boubia is the son of the Moroccan nationalist and historian Si Ahmed Boubia. After the Islamic school and the Arab public school, he joined the high schools of the French Mission in Meknes (Paul-Valéry high school) and in Rabat (Lycée Descartes high school) where he obtained  his BA in the "Philosophy-Letters" section. As a teenager he had already written an Arabic teaching book intended for French-speaking students, a manual received positively by his teachers and by the Mission. After the bachelor's, he went to Germany to pursue higher studies. Boubia graduate from the University of Heidelberg a Master's degree in Literature and Political Sciences, then a doctorate in philosophy from the Sorbonne, University of Paris IV, Habilitation, Boubia is a philosopher, writer, and historian of relations between the East and the West; It is publishes in German, French and Arabic. He was  responsible for the first German Section in Morocco, newly created in 1976 at the Mohammed-V University in Rabat where Boubia worked as a professor of German literature and civilization. Boubia has also given courses at the universities of Heidelberg and Karlsruhe and several conferences around the world. In the early 1980s, with Professor Arnold Rothe and other colleagues he initiated Maghrebian studies at the University of Heidelberg. He currently teaches at the University of Caen where he created and headed for many years the Voi (es) x research team on exile and migration. Artworks. Fawzi Boubia is the author  of a dozen books and numerous scientific articles. He published a book on politics and theatre in the 18th century and a novel that is considered the first Moroccan novel translated into German: Heidelberg-Marrakesch, einfach. On the occasion of his invitation to the Rauris Literary Festival in Austria (Rauriser Literaturtage, 1997) to present his novel Heidelberg-Marrakesch, einfach, he read and published the first German-language poem Scheherezade in the dürftiger Zeit. His publications revolve around several issues: exile and migration; theory of difference and cosmic literature (Goethe); philosophy of exclusion (Hegel); philosophy of negativity (Rousseau); intercultural communication; Orientalism  and Occidentalism; the Arab Spring as the third “Al-Nahda” (Renaissance); Islam as an integral part of Europe. In an article he published on the occasion of the Arab Spring in Arabic, he invented the Arabic concept of “irhalocracy” (the power to dismiss the executive through free elections according to the political philosophy of critical rationality), he intended to replace the term “democracy”, which is often overused by rulers in the East. And long before the first popular uprising that erupted in Tunisia, Boubia denounced in an Arabic interview given in 2010 on German television (Deutsche Welle TV) the taboos  which block any process of emancipation in the Arab world and which mainly concern the place of religion in society, politics, sexuality etc. In January 2014 Boubia had the honor to present in Germany his collection of poems Arabischer Divan in der Sprache Goethes. He recited his poems written directly in German in front of the Academy of Stuttgart (Akademie für gesprochenes Wort) and in Tübingen in the Tower of Hölderlin, this temple of universal poetry. Publications. Individual and collective works