El Habib Louai is a Moroccan Amazigh poet, translator, musician, and assistant professor of English at Ibn Zohr University in Agadir, Morocco. He is a contributing member of The European Beat Studies Network. Louai has been awarded the Aimee Grunberger scholarship by Naropa University to participate in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics creative writing program.
His articles, poems, and Arabic translations of Beat writers have appeared in several literary magazines, journals, and reviews. Louai has published two collections of poems: Mrs. Jones Will Now Know: Poems of a Desperate Rebel and Rotten Wounds Embalmed with Tar. His Arabic translations include Michael Rothenberg’s Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story; America, America: An anthology of the Beat Poetry; Bob Kaufman’s The Ancient Rain; Diane di Prima’s Revolutionary Letters and Giorgio Agamben’s What is an Apparatus and Other Essays. Louai’s Rotten Wounds Embalmed with Tar was shortlisted for the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry in 2020.
