Zhor Gourram

Zhor Gourram is a Moroccan novelist and academic. A PhD holder, she currently teaches at the Ibn Tofeil University in Kenitra, Morocco. She also conducts research into language, creativity and new media and runs her own research laboratory at the university. She is an experienced literary critic, and has served on the judging panels of the Arabic Booker Prize, the Owais Award and the Moroccan Book Prize. She was awarded the Royal Sash for National Merit at the Casablanca Book Fair in 2012.