 His "Dictionnaire des Écrivains marocains", published in 2005 by "éditions EDDIF (Maroc)" and "Paris-Méditérannée (France)" is a biographical dictionary of Moroccan writers who have expressed themselves in French language.The book has established itself already as a standard reference tool.He was born on 30 June 1951 in Paris from a Moroccan father and Romanian mother.