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Rita El Khayat (Arabic: غيثة الخياط) also known as "Ghita". Ghita El Khayat, (altern. translit. Rita), (born 1944, Rabat, Morocco) is Moroccan psychiatrist, anthro-psychoanalyst, writer, and anthropologist.[1] [2] She studied at modern schools of Rabat and completed her graduation in the field of Psychiatry, Psychoanalyst and Medical Aerospace from Paris whereas graduation in Ergonomics and Occupational Medicine were completed from Bordeaux. She did her PhD in Anthropology of Arab World from (School of High Studies in Social Sciences, EHESS in Paris).
Rita added that apart from being a medical doctor, she has served a Professor as well as conceiver of Anthropology at the University if Milano, Women Studies member at Quebec Canada a French Language University, UQUAM abbreviated as Université du Québec à Montréal, a journalist as well as an author of not only the articles but books too, who had published thirty six books till 2012.[3]
While in Paris she studied ethnopsychiatry under George Devereux[4] and also studied Classical Arabic at École spéciale des Langues orientales and began to write.
In 1999 she founded the Association Ainï Bennaï to broaden the culture in Morocco and Maghreb. In 2000, the Association became a publishing house.
She is known for her strong involvement in favour of women's emancipation and social rights.
She is author of more than 350 articles and 36 books.
She is professor of anthropology of the knowledge at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara in Italy.
- ^ Valérie Orlando, Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean, ed. Lexington Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7391-0563-4, introduction p. 10
- ^ Suad Joseph, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, ed. Brill, 2003, ISBN 978-90-04-12821-7, p. 237
- ^ "Rita El Khayat interviewed by Mediter". 15 July 2015.
- ^ Il mio maestro Georges Devereux