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Allal El Hajjam

Moroccan academic and poet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2024
Entity authorityQ4730389 ↗
Source-derived summary

Allal El Hajjam (born 22 December 1949) is a poet and professor of Arabic language in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. Previously he taught at the School of Arts and Humanities in Meknès. He also taught at the Centers for Teacher Training at Errachidia, Rabat, and Meknès.

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The public source identifies “Allal El Hajjam” as moroccan academic and poet. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Allal, Hajjam and Moroccan.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-12-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Allal, Hajjam and Moroccan providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 13, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q4730389. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allal El Hajjam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.