Dr Michael Pyron is a specialist in the field of Berber language, literature and culture. He is also well known as a writer on tourism in Morocco. His doctoral thesis was on an Amazigh area in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Dr. Peyron taught at the Faculty of Letters of Mohammed V University in Rabat (1973-1988) and in the English Department at Grenoble University (1988-95). In the late 1980s, the focus of his career switched from English to Amazigh studies. From 1995 to1997 he was a guest lecturer at King Fahd School for Translation (Tangier, Morocco), and since 1997 has been a visiting professor at Al-Akhawayn University. Dr. Peyron’s publications include numerous articles and half a dozen books in French and English on Amazigh-related affairs, including, two volumes of bi-lingual Berber-French poetry; a collection of folktales in a Berber-English edition; four edited conference proceedings on Amazigh culture; since 1985, he has regularly contributed entries to the multi-volume Encyclopédie Berbère; and, he put together an Amazigh Studies Reader (2006).

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