{{Short description|Moroccan writer}} {{Orphan|date=January 2022}} {{use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Anis Al-Rafii | image = Morocco flag.webp | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}} | birth_place = Casablanca, Morocco | occupation = Writer, novelist }}
'''Anis El-Rafei''' ({{langx|ar|أنيس الرافعي}}) a Moroccan storyteller, was born in Casablanca in 1976. El-Rafei graduated from the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, specializing in linguistics and modern literary criticism. He is one of the most important short story hermits in Morocco and the Arab world. He remained faithful to writing the short story and did not leave it to write the novel, as many storytellers did.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2018-07-27 |script-title=ar: أنيس الرافعي: القصة القصيرة هي «مسيح» الأجناس الأدبية |first=محمد |last=بنميلود |trans-title=Anis Al-Rafii: The short story is the “messiah” of literary genres<!--automatically translated title--> |url=https://al-akhbar.com/Kalimat/215476 |access-date=2021-10-22 |work=Al-Akhbar |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727010643/https://al-akhbar.com/Kalimat/215476 |archive-date=27 July 2018 |url-status=dead |language=ar}}</ref> Samples of his works have been translated into French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Persian and Chinese, and he was chosen as one of seven distinguished writers to participate in the second cycle of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Arab Booker.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-16|script-title=ar:القاص المغربي أنيس الرافعي: القصة القصيرة تتيح لي إمكانية الكتابة بمواد البقاء والديمومة والتوهج |work=القدس العربي|language=ar |url=https://www.alquds.co.uk/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5/|access-date=2021-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216201339/https://www.alquds.co.uk/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B5-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A-%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5/|archive-date=2019-12-16}}</ref>
== Biography == The experience of Anis Al-Rafii, a Moroccan storyteller from the nineties, is a new experience based on working on the aesthetics of experimentation, which the writer considers not very pubescent, but rather a yearning and constant motivation. His creative project included working in parallel arts such as cinema, composition, photography, and music, which are closely related to his cognitive and emotional interests, which the writer invested in to create a new experience in the Arabic story.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-16 |script-title=ar:أنيس الرافعي لـ"العين": القصة فن زاهد يحب العزوف عن مساقط الأضواء |url=https://al-ain.com/article/anis-rafee |access-date=2021-10-22 |work=Al-Ain |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116180959/https://al-ain.com/article/anis-rafee |archive-date=16 November 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Belgian-based Moroccan film director Ghobari El Hawari directed a short film inspired by the Dolls' clinic. He received the Gutenberg Prize and the Acciodi Prize. The stories of Anis Al-Rafei have been translated into many languages, and his works have received and continue to receive great attention and warmth from critics and specialists on the Moroccan and Arab levels.<ref name=":0" /> There are those who consider that Anis Al-Rafei, with his accumulated creative achievement, constitutes a real creative phenomenon in the field of the short story.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-09|script-title=ar:أنيس الرافعي مبصر الزمن الأعمى.!!. {{!}} ناهد الزيدي - الموجة الثقافية|url=http://elmawja.com/blog/%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%89-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%A7/|access-date=2021-10-22|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209104558/http://elmawja.com/blog/%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%89-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%A7/|archive-date=2019-12-09}}</ref>
Dar Safsafa for Culture and Publishing chose to celebrate the storytelling experience of Anis Al-Rafai, by publishing eight books, in two parts, according to a special tab that included exercises, successions, notes, sounds, rituals, evidence, photograms and investigations. With the appendix of each part, the testimonies of Moroccan and Arab writers who accompanied the writer's experience by writing about it.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-10 |work=AL-ITIHAD |url=http://www.alittihad.info/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8/ |access-date=2021-10-22 |script-title=ar:«صفصافة» تصدر الأعمال القصصية للكاتب أنيس الرافعي |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110130502/http://www.alittihad.info/%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8/ |archive-date=10 January 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
The Egyptian critic, Dr. Muhammad Al-Shahat, wrote on the back of the fourth cover of the book “The Tailor of Organizations”: “The narration of the book (The Tailor of Organizations) by the Moroccan storyteller Anis Al-Rafii operates on the principle of practicing creative writing as a (weaving) or (sewing) for a group of human bodies and situations, daily or cosmic. On the one hand, this (heterogeneous) book rises in its form and in its investigation of its cultural references, both Arab and Western, and woven with remarkable deliberation and patience, and whose quadrilateral geometric structure is formed in the form of a dress led by threads of questions and its compositions, drawing on the energy of ancient and medieval Arabic prose, paste with a modern narrative flavor”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-09 |script-title=ar:"خيّاط الهيئات" لأنيس الرافعي |url=https://www.alaraby.co.uk/diffah//books/2018/1/5/%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209104619/https://www.alaraby.co.uk/diffah//books/2018/1/5/%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A6%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9%D9%8A |archive-date=9 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Writings == He has published several collections of short stories, including:
* Scandals Above All Suspicion, 1999 * Things That Don't Happen, 2002 * Mr. Rebaja, 2004 * Parchment, 2006 * Tomato Can, 2007 * Butterfly weight on the roof of the bell, 2008<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-09 |script-title=ar:في ثقل الفراشة فوق سطح الجرس - ديوان العرب |url=https://www.diwanalarab.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=14406 |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209104623/https://www.diwanalarab.com/spip.php?page=article&id_article=14406 |archive-date=9 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Arrest of the Forest in a Bottle, Dar Azmana, 2009<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-16 |script-title=ar: اعتقال الغابة في زجاجة |url=https://www.maghress.com/alalam/10622 |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116180953/https://www.maghress.com/alalam/10622 |archive-date=16 November 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * This is what will happen in the past, Spaces for Publishing and Distribution, 2010<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-16 |script-title=ar:هذا الذي سيحدث فيما مضى: أنيس الرافعي: كتب |url=https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb188715-157702&search=books |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316120832/https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb188715-157702&search=books |archive-date=16 March 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * The Moroccan Company for the Relocation of the Dead, Supreme Council of Culture, 2011 * Areej Al-Bustan in the expenses of the blind - an imaginary story guide, Moroccan Arab House for Publishing and Printing, 2011<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-16|script-title=ar:"أريج البستان في تصاريف العميان" لأنيس الرافعي: القصة وطقوس العبور |work=قاب قوسين |url=http://www.qabaqaosayn.com/node/6115|access-date=2021-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116181009/http://www.qabaqaosayn.com/node/6115|archive-date=2019-11-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-01-10|script-title=ar:'أريج البستان في تصاريف العميان' لأنيس الرافعي |work=القدس العربي|url=https://www.alquds.co.uk/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3/|access-date=2021-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200110130507/https://www.alquds.co.uk/%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%81-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3/|archive-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> * Dolls Clinic, about Dar Al-Ain, 2015<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-16 |script-title=ar:مغرس : مناديل «مصحة الدمى» للقاص أنيس الرافعي 1/2|url=https://www.maghress.com/alittihad/1224467 |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116180952/https://www.maghress.com/alittihad/1224467 |archive-date=16 November 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Museum of the Disabled, about Dar Al-Ain, 2017<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-05-02|script-title=ar:في "متحف العاهات".. أنيس الرافعي يواصل مكافحة الخوف من العالم (صور) |work= إرم نيوز|url=https://www.eremnews.com/culture/677154|access-date=2021-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502202011/https://www.eremnews.com/culture/677154|archive-date=2019-05-02}}</ref> * Tailoring bodies, on the authority of Dar Al-Ain, 2018 * Alternative Spirits Repository, Khatwat Wa Zalal Publishing and Distribution House, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-16 |script-title=ar: مستودع الأرواح البديلة: أنيس الرافعي: كتب |url=https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb349173-343267&search=books |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316120215/https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb349173-343267&search=books |archive-date=16 March 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * dread archipelago; Al-Mu’azal Storybook, Khatwat Publishing and Distribution House, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-16 |script-title=ar:أرخبيل الفزع ؛ كراسة محكيات المعزل: أنيس الرافعي: كتب |url=https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb344736-338121&search=books |access-date=2021-10-22 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210316130622/https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb344736-338121&search=books |archive-date=16 March 2021 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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