Moroccan writer, translator and art critic. His intellectual work is divided between critical research and translation. He earned a BA in Philosophy and Psychology in 1983 and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Comparative Literature in 1984. In 1987, he completed his third-year PhD in Islamic Studies and Civilization at the Sorbonne University. Farid Al-Zahi began publishing with Al-Muharraq Al-Thaqafi in 1978, before joining the Moroccan Writers Union in April 1991. His books include: Stories and Imagination (1991), Body, Image and the Sacred in Islam (1999), Text, Body and Interpretation (2004). , The Eye and the Mirror (2005), and books in translation: The Science of Texts / Julia Kristeva (1992), Sites of Dialogues with Jacques Derrida (1992), The Image and Its Death / Regis d'Urpre” (2002), "Ibn Arabi / Henri Corbin's Creative Imagination of Sufism" (2008), Magic and Religion in North Africa / Edmond Doty (2008).