Mostafa Nissabouri, born in Casablanca in 1943, is a poet, art critic, and one of the fathers of contemporary Moroccan literary identity. Together with Mohammad Khaïr-Eddine in 1964, he wrote and distributed the manifesto “Poésie Toute,” calling for a break with French literary traditions, and, in 1966 and 1971, cofounded the pivotal Moroccan literary journals Souffles/Anfas and Intégral. Nissabouri served as the director of the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Casablanca from 2001–2003, and is currently a member of the board of the House of Poetry in Morocco.