Touria Oulehri

Touria Oulehri (; born 1962) is a Moroccan novelist and academic. Her novels focus on the experiences and challenges faced by Moroccan women.

Life and career Oulehri was born in the village of Assoul, Morocco. She attended secondary school in Meknès, followed by higher education in Fez and France.

She has worked as a teacher at the École Normale Supérieure in Meknès, and as an academic of French literature.

Oulehri's first novel, La répudiée was published in 2001. Oulehri draws comparisons between the destruction of the main character's life and the 1960 Agadir earthquake, yet the events also provide her with an opportunity to rebuild a better life. The novel caused some controversy in Morocco for its depiction of a woman who seeks fulfilment from life without motherhood or a male partner.

Feminist themes and women's experiences have continued to be features of her later novels; for example, in Les Conspirateurs sont parmi nous (2006), the young main character has received no education about her body and is unsettled by menstruation as a result. In 2019 her novel Aime-moi et je te tue was presented at the Casablanca International Book Fair.

Books La répudiée (Afrique-Orient, 2001) Laisse mon corps te dire (Marsam, 2016) Aime-moi et je te tue (Virgule, 2019)