Khalid Amin
Khalid Amin (Arabic: خالد أمين; born 15 February 1966) is a Moroccan writer, academic and researcher. He is a professor of Higher Education at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Tetouan, belonging to Abdelmalek Essaâdi University. He specialized in English literature, theater, Performance and cultural studies. He is the founder and president of the International Center for Performance Studies in Tangier and a member of the advisory board of the International Institute for the Interweaving of Performance Cultures at the University of Berlin. He was born in Tetouan on February 15, 1966 and settled in Tangiers . He wrote dozens of works and studies in both English and Arabic languages that mainly approached different types of Performance arts and sought to establish a kind of double criticism residing within the interstitial spaces. His work also integrates with the voices of post-colonial studies and those which underminine the colonial situation (Decoloniality). His path. After obtaining his bachelor's degree from Zainab Al-Nafzweyya High School in Tangiers, he studied at the English Language Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Tétouan. As soon as he obtained his bachelor’s degree, Khalid Amin traveled to England  to obtain a master’s degree from the University of Essex. He said about that experience and its cognitive and personal horizons, "Since I set foot in the University of Essex in Britain in 1990 with to complete my postgraduate studies, I was asked by Roger Howard, the head of the theater department at that prestigious university, "What about Moroccan theater?", then I realized that it was my duty to work on the self within the limits of its relationship with the other. The beginning  was from Shakespeare in the Moroccan theater, accompanied by my professors, Dr. Hasan Al-Munai’i  and Muhammad Al-Amiri”. As soon as he obtained his master's degree from the University of Essex in modern literature – specializing in theater, he returned to Morocco and worked as a professor of higher education since 1993. Khalid Amin was keen to study the arts of Moroccan and Arab Performance and to introduce it to the whole world, based on the idea that a Performance is a human practice and is not confined to a specific culture. In 2000, he discussed his doctoral thesis in comparative literature in which he studied "Shakespeare in Moroccan Theater" under the joint supervision  of England and Morocco. Khalid Amin founded the International Center for Performance Studies, which was initially linked to the “Research Group in Theater and Drama” at the Faculty of Arts in Tetouan. Then he made it an independent institution cooperating with the faculty in the framework of an advanced and productive partnership. Later, he made many partnerships with Moroccan and international research and Performance centers, including the University of London and the "International Research Center for the Interweaving of Performance Cultures" belonging to the University of Berlin, which was founded by the pioneering German theater studies Erica Fisher Lichte. Translated  Works. Erica Fisher Lichte, From the Theater of Acculturation to the Interweaving of Performance Cultures, the Publications of the International Center for Performance Studies, 2015 Patrice Bavis, Dramaturgy and Beyond Dramaturgy, co-translated with Said Karimi, Publications of the International Center for the Performance Studies, 2014