Driss Ksikes

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Driss Ksikes is a Moroccan journalist. He was a former editor-in-chief of the francophone Tel Quel magazine. Since 2006, he has been the editor-in-chief and director of publication of the arabophone and darijophone Nichane magazine. Ksikes wrote two plays and published a novel: Ma boite noire.

In December 2006, Ksikes and another journalist, Sanaa al-Aji, were prosecuted for "defaming Islam and damaging morality" after the publication of a joke referring to the Islamic religion, Muhammad and Hassan II, the late king of Morocco. He received a three-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay fines of $8,000. He has also been banned from working for two months.

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  • Novel by Driss Ksikes: Ma boîte noire, ed. Le Grand Souffle Ed., Paris, France, 2006, ISBN 9782916492025

The current director of the publication of Nichane magazine is Benshemsi. Driss Ksikess resigned after the verdict he received following his trial