Farid Mohamed Zalhoud is a French-speaking Moroccan poet, painter, and sculptor born in 1959 in Tafraout, Morocco. He composed a poetic trilogy in Amazigh entitled Imerruyen, takad, ighd (Sparks, fire, ashes), published by Éditions Berbères in Paris under the title Afgan Zund Argan. Parole de Paria is his first collection of poetry published by Les Cahiers d’Anoual. In 2007, he published two new collections in PDF format with Diogène Éditions Libres: Ultime Poème and Semblable à l’arganier.