Bensalem Himmich (Arabic: بنسالم حميش; born in 1948 in Meknes)[1] is a Moroccan novelist, poet and philosopher with a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris,[2] who teaches at the Mohammed V University, Rabat.
As a liberal philosopher, Himmich is concerned with matters including ideological education in Islam.
His creative and academic works are in both Arabic and French and some of his novels have been translated into several languages.
Himmich received the grand award of the French Academy of Toulouse in 2011.
[6] His work deals with the problems and conflicts with which Morocco is faced today.