Samir Salmi is a Morrocan writer and scholar. He specializes in poetry and modern art. Salmi has had several art exhibitions in his home country and abroad. His Ph.D. dissertation studies modern poetry, and his research focuses on the work of the Lebanese poet Jubran Khalil Jubran, both his poetry and his art, under the guidance of the well-known Morrocan scholar Muhammed Bennis. Salmi has published several artworks and critical articles in several Arab and international journals and magazines. He has won many awards in the fields of art and literature in Morroco and beyond.