Career
He is especially well known as the poet of Marrakech of the first part of the 20th century. According to his biographer Omar Mounir he was "considered a nationalist by the French, a traitor by the nationalists, a alem by the man in the street and a rascal by the ulemas." Mohamed Ben Brahim studied at the Ibn Yousouf University in Marrakech and the First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Qarawiyyin University of Fes. He worked as a university professor for a short period and, after that as a journalist.
Many of Ben Brahim"s poems are put to music and still popular in present-day Morocco.
Karima Skalli is one of his work"s interpreters.
