Said Bengrad
Judge 2025

Said Bengrad is a Moroccan university professor in the Arts College of Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. He obtained a doctorate from the Sorbonne University, Paris, and a state doctorate from Moulay Ismail University, Meknes, Morocco. He has won numerous prizes, including the Atlas Award for translation, given by the French government (2006), and the Morocco Book Prize (2010). He is a specialist in Semiotics, in its branches of Narrative, Imagery and Culture. His publications include: Fictional Narrative and the Experience of Meaning (2008, 2024); The Orbits of Language, between Fuṣḥā Arabic and Dialect (2022); Narrative Identity: the Narrative between Fictional Imagining and History (2023); Interpretation and the Experience of Meaning (2023); and The Image and Outcomes of Looking (2024).