Funeral of Late Writer-Journalist Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, MAP Director General

09 avril 2023 Printable Version

Rabat - The funeral of the writer-journalist Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, Director General of MAP, took place on Sunday at the Chouhada cemetery in Rabat, in the presence of his relatives, members of the government and several actors of the world of politics, media, arts and culture.

After the Addohr and Funeral prayers at the Chouhada Mosque in Rabat, the remains of the deceased, who died Saturday at the age of 67 years after a long illness, was buried at the Chouhada cemetery.

Intellectual, man of letters and journalist of renown, the late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi has made the Moroccan News Agency, in 12 years, a public news pole with a rich and diverse production.

Since 2011, date of his appointment by HM King Mohammed VI as head of MAP, the deceased has continued to multiply initiatives and launch innovative and colossal projects that have completely changed MAP and have given it the brilliance and influence it currently boasts in its Arab and African environment.

The death of the former editor-in-chief of Maroc Hebdo and founder of the daily Aujourd'hui le Maroc, who was a model of rigor and a fine connoisseur of Morocco's history and political scenes, is a great loss for the national media landscape and the world of arts and culture.

Uncompromising on the independence of opinion, unflappable when it came to defending the institutions, integrity and sovereignty of Morocco, the deceased has participated without question in forging this precious Moroccan exception with pride and dignity, without ever giving up on these values.

Born on August 14, 1956 in Casablanca, the late Khalil Hachimi was very early involved in developing the media and was, in the early eighties, one of the actors of the creation and development of intercultural and community communication in France where he collaborated in several radio stations.

A graduate of the Institute of Geography at the University of Paris I-Pantheon-Sorbonne, he was a columnist, a reporter and then Editor-in-Chief for many years of the weekly newspaper "Maroc Hebdo international" before creating, in 2000, "Aujourd'hui Le Maroc", a generalist French-speaking daily.

In 2007, he was President of the Jury of the Grand National Press Prize before being elected, in 2008, President of the FMEJ (Moroccan Federation of Newspaper Publishers), a position to which he was re-elected in 2011.

The late Khalil Hachimi Idrissi has to his credit several publications including "Billets Bleus" Moroccan chronicles 1994-2000.