Career
He was the dean of the Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ben M"Sik in Casablanca for several years. Rabi"s novels give an unexpected insight in the social realities of urban and rural life of Morocco and in the role of magic and traditional beliefs. Mubarak Rabi wrote several collections of short stories:Sayyidna Qadr (trl Our Master Fate, 1969), Dar wa Dukhkhan (trl A house and Smoke, 1975) and Rih"alat First Rate (at Lloyd's)-H"asad wa First Rate (at Lloyd's)-H"ubb, (trl Journey of Harvest and Love, 1983).
Some of his novels are: Attayyibun, (trl The Good-Hearted, 1972), Rufqata Assilah"i wa Lqamar (trl In the company of weapons and the Moon, 1976) and Arrih" Ashshatwiyya (trl The Winter Wind, 1977).
These books are: the novel Badr Zamanihi (trl The Moon of his Times, 1983), Burju Assua"ud (trl Tower of Fortunes, 1990), the trilogy Derb Sultan (called after Derb sultane, an old quartier of Casablanca, 1999), the collection of short stories, al-Balluri al-maksur (trl The broken crystalline, 1996), the short story collection Minister Gharb lichark (trl From West to East, 2002) and the novels Ayam jabilia (trl Chronicle from the Mountains, 2003) and Ahl al-Bayad (trl White People, 2011). Rabi also wrote more than twelve children"s books
Rabi studied and taught psychology. He published a collection of essays about children"s psychology called Awatif al-Tifl (trl The child"s emotions, 1984).
