Mustapha Souhassou is Professor of Mining Geology at the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Taroudant, Ibn Zohr University (Morocco). He holds a doctorate in metallogeny from the Institut national polytechnique de Lorraine (Nancy, France), a former mining geologist and head of the geological department of the Bou-Azzer mine, CTT-MANAGEM, and a member of the scientific committee of the Ouarzazate Mining and Geology Museum. He is also member of the Moroccan-French mission in Sijilmâsa.

He has participated in the publication of the following books: “Sijilmâsa, cité islamique du Maroc médiéval : recherches archéologiques maroco-française 2011-2016” (Coll. VESAM-9, Rabat, 2021); “Sijilmâsa, porte de l’Afrique. Patrimoine en partage, site en péril” (published by the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat, 2018).

He has to his credits several scientific articles in internationally recognized journals (Journal of African Earth Sciences, Journal of African archaeology, Geological Society of London, Archaeometry) and has conducted, by invitation, plenary conferences: Les mines d’argent: un paysage et un patrimoine miniers (Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, Rabat-2018); Exploitation aux périodes médiévales des mines d’argent dans le Draa-Tafilalet (Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 2019).