Mohamed Choukri was born in 1935 AD in Ait Chaker in the province of Nador in northern Morocco. He lived a difficult and harsh childhood in his village located in the Rif Mountains, then in the city of Tangiers, to which he fled with his poor family in 1942 AD. Shukri arrived in Tangiers and he did not yet speak Arabic because his mother tongue was Tamazight. He worked as a café boy when he was under ten, then he worked as a porter, a newspaper seller and a shoe wiper, and then he worked as a seller of smuggled cigarettes. His family moved to the city of Tetouan, but this Berber young man soon returned to Tangier alone. Shukri did not learn to read and write until he was twenty. In the year 1955 AD, he decided to leave the underworld and the reality of loitering, smuggling, and prisons in which he was immersed, and entered the school in the city of Larache, then graduated after that to work in the education field. In 1966, his first story, Violence on the Beach, was published in the Lebanese magazine Al-Adab. Shukri retired and devote himself entirely to literary writing. After that, his writings continued to appear. Mohamed Choukri worked in the radio field through cultural programs that he prepared and presented on Radio Tangiers, especially in his famous program Choukri Speaks. Choukri lived in Tangiers for a long time and only left for short periods of time. He died on November 15, 2003. Muhammad Shukri did not marry throughout his life, and he said, 'In order to become a father to a son, I must marry. I have refrained from marriage because I am afraid that I will exercise the same domination and oppression that was inflicted on me. That is why I am afraid that I will have a baby.. I do not trust myself.” His most prominent literary works are: The Autobiography (3 parts): The Barefoot Bread (1972 AD, and it was not published in Arabic until 1982 AD) - The Greatest Time of Errors (1992 AD). faces. The Crazy Ward (1979 AD) The Tent (1985 AD) The Indoor Market (1985 AD) The Play Happiness (1994 AD) The Temptation of the White Blackbird (1998 AD) in addition to his memoirs with Jean Pounds, Paul Bowles, and Tennessee Williams.