Career
He is considered one of Morocco"s most important modern authors. From 1976 to 1983, Berrada was the president of Morocco"s writers union. He teaches Arab literature at the faculté des lettres of the Mohammed V University in Rabat.
Berrada belonged to a literary movement that wanted to experiment with new techniques of writing (what Moroccan critics call attajrib (experimentation).
The text does not give much weight to the plot and is written in independent scenes, images, thoughts and portraits. In the field of language, dialects take on an important role, such as Fassi (the dialect of Fez) together with wordplay and allusions.
Since 1978, Berrada has been married to Leila Shahid, ambassador of the State of Palestine to the European Union.