Edmond Amran El Maleh (Arabic: إدمون عمران المالح) (30 March 1917 – 15 November 2010) was a Moroccan writer and activist.

El Maleh was born in Safi, Morocco to a Jewish Berber family.

He moved to Paris in 1965, working there as a journalist and a teacher of philosophy.

He only began writing in 1980, at the age of 63, traveling back and forth between France and Morocco.

He stated that, in spite of his long stay in France, he had devoted his entire literary life to Morocco.