HAFID CHAHIDI Biography

Hafid Chahidi is a young Moroccan poet, freelance translator and scholar. He is currently pursuing his post-graduate studies at The King Fahd Advanced School of Translation and Interpreting; (Diplôme de Traducteur professionnel (Diploma in translation) " Master Program" combinaison linguistique: Arabe; Anglais; Français): in Tangier. He received his BA degree in English Studies (Majored in Linguistics) from IBN ZOHR University; Agadir-Morocco in 2014. He read one of his poems ‘This and Nothing more’, which is now accessible online, as a finalist in the Third edition of 100 thousand poets for change event organized in Agadir on September,2013. Some of his poems have been published by several online journals and magazines as ‘Morocco World News’ and ‘The Tunisian Tanit Boat of Poetry’ along with some other ones. He is considering his BA Monograph, entitled” The Impracticality of the tentative proposal to Dialectization/Colloquialization of the Moroccan Educational system”, for publication. His academic research areas are; Applied Linguistics, EFL education and Advanced Translation studies.