Kacimi is the author of several novels, plays and non-fiction books. His first novel, Le mouchoir, was turned down fourteen times before it was published by L'Harmattan in 1987.[1] His 2006 play, Terre sainte, received a good review from Le Figaro when it was performed in Avignon in 2013.[4] Meanwhile, Kacimi also worked as a translator and a ghostwriter.[3] He was also a contributor to Actuel, a French magazine, and he produced Les Chemins de la connaissance on France Culture.[3] In 2005, he was, with others authors such as Alain Decaux, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL).[6]