Arts in Marrakech Festival
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The AiM International Biennale (formerly the Arts in Marrakech Festival) first took place in September 2005 It was set up by Vanessa Branson
and Abel Damoussi. It is the first major Trilingual (English, Arabic & French) festival in North Africa.. It focuses on cutting-edge contemporary Visual art, Literature and Film. It consists of a main Visual Arts Exhibition, other arts exhibitions, installations and happenings, discussions, debates and screenings based in the eclectic venues and settings that Marrakech has to offer.
and included many prestigious participants and guests including Hanif Kureishi
, Esther Freud
and Annie Lennox
, as well as the debut exhibition of the Wonderful Fund Collection at the Museum of Marrackech. This included artists such us Sarah Lucas, Grayson Perry
, Jake and Dinos Chapman
, Tracey Emin
and Gavin Turk
.
The main Visual Arts Exhibition was of South African photography as well as the L’appartement 22 project curated by Abdellah Karroum. The venues included the Marrakech Museum
, ESAV Film School, Royal Theatre, Riad El Fenn, Riad Magi and Ksour Agafay.
James Dearden
,
Faouzi Bensaidi,
Walter Lassally
,
Deborah Moggach
,
Sussan Deyhim
,
Farida Benlyazid,
Josdi Bieber,
John Boorman
,
Ruth Charney,
Sarah Curtis,
William Dalrymple
,
Ross Douglas
,
Edmond El Maleh,
Hamid Fardjad,
David Goldblatt
,
Richard E. Grant
,
Mohsin Hamid
,
Sally Hampson,
Christopher Hampton
,
Richard Horowitz
,
Pieter Hugo,
Hari Kunzru,
Nick Laird
,
Santu Mofoken,
Daniel Morden,
Zwelethu Mthethwa
,
Zanele Muhole,
Sam Neave,
Mark Peploe,
Simon Prosser,
Gabriel Range
,
Tahir Shah
,
Hardeep Singh Kohli
,
Zadie Smith
,
Ian Softely,
Mikhael Subotsky,
Guy Tillim
,
Nontsikelelo Veleko,
Alan Yentob
.
, Yto Barrada
, Lordana Longo and Batoul S'Himi amoungst many others. Other Events included Julien Fisera and Laurent P. Berger Directing the Stories of Order and Dissorder which placed storytellers in taxis around the city; a Sketch Gallery London Curated by Victoria Brooks, Giles Round and Mark Ariel Waller bought their project Taverna Especial to an ancient Riad
in the Medina. Attendees also include Turner-nominee Isaac Julien
, BBC TV arts executive Alan Yentob
and Morrocan film director Faouzi Bensaidi, actress Kim Cattrall
and artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel
, who took part in many different, discussions and debates at venues including ESAV film school, Riad El Fenn and Ksour Agafay.
,
Bani Abidi,
Yassin Adnan,
Mark Aerial-Waller,
Sofia Aguiar,
Mustapha Akrim,
Sobhi Al-Zobaidi,
Francis Alys
,
Noureddine Amir,
Alice Anderson
,
Younes Baba-Ali,
Raffaella Barker
,
Yto Barada,
Marie-Louise Belarbi,
Faouzi Bensaidi,
Rachid Benzine,
Laurent P. Berger,
Omar Berrada,
Katrine Boorman,
John Boorman
,
Franck Bragigand,
Victoria Brooks,
Francois Bucher,
Kim Cattrall
,
Chto delat?,
Tomas Colaco,
Stuart Comer,
Claudia Cristovao,
Shezad Dawood
,
Sana El Aji,
Ahmed El Maanouni,
Nina Esber,
Charles Esche
,
Patricia Esquivias,
Hamid Fardjad,
Seamus Farrell,
Eric Fellner
,
James Fenton
,
Julien Fisera,
Pedro Gomez-Egana,
Joana Hadjithomas
,
Leila Hafyane,
Sally Hampson,
Marius Hansen
,
John Hillcoat
,
Chourouk Hriech,
Fadwa Islah,
Isaac Julien
,
Abdellah Karroum,
Bouchra Khalili,
Hassan Khan,
Faouzi Laatiris,
Jooyoung Lee,
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Loredana Longo,
Bernard Marcade,
James Marsh
,
Mourad Mazouz,
Vincent Melilli,
Danny Moynihan,
Mark Nash
,
Heidi Nikolaisen,
Otobong Nkanga,
Kristina Norman,
Andrew O'Hagan
,
Eleanor O'Keeffe,
Bouchra Ouezgane,
Catherine Poncin,
Pere Portabella
,
Alexandra Pringle,
Younes Rahmoun,
Jose Roca,
Giles Round,
Rasha Salti,
Jerome Schlomoff,
Julian Schnabel
,
Wael Shawky,
Batoul S'Himi,
Hardeep Singh-Kohli,
Kathryn Smith,
Ahdaf Soueif
,
Anna Steiger,
Anne Szefer Karlsen,
Abdellah Taïa
,
Naoko Takahashi
,
Barbara Trapido
,
Justine Triet,
DJ U-Cef,
Nontsikelelo Veleko,
John Walsh
,
James Webb
,
Alan Yentob
,
Hisham Zaman
,
John Zarobell.
Vanessa Branson
Vanessa Branson was born in Surrey 1959. She is the sister of Richard Branson and with her husband Robert Devereux is the owner of Eilean Shona. She is also a founder of the Marrakech Biennale.- Biography :...
and Abel Damoussi. It is the first major Trilingual (English, Arabic & French) festival in North Africa.. It focuses on cutting-edge contemporary Visual art, Literature and Film. It consists of a main Visual Arts Exhibition, other arts exhibitions, installations and happenings, discussions, debates and screenings based in the eclectic venues and settings that Marrakech has to offer.
1st Edition 2005
The 2005 festival was directed by Pablo GanguliPablo Ganguli
Pablo Ganguli is a cultural entrepreneur and impresario who has created and directed several international festivals of arts, literature, media, film, fashion and culture, through his organisation...
and included many prestigious participants and guests including Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi
Hanif Kureishi CBE is an English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. The themes of his work have touched on topics of race, nationalism, immigration, and sexuality...
, Esther Freud
Esther Freud
Esther Freud is a British novelist.-Life and career:Born in London, Freud is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud and Bernadine Coverley and is a great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. She travelled extensively with her mother as a child, and returned to London at the age of sixteen to train as an...
and Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
, as well as the debut exhibition of the Wonderful Fund Collection at the Museum of Marrackech. This included artists such us Sarah Lucas, Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry
Grayson Perry is an English artist, known mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry's vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting subjects at odds with their attractive appearance. There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of...
, Jake and Dinos Chapman
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Iakovos "Jake" Chapman and Konstantinos "Dinos" Chapman are English visual artists, often known as the Chapman Brothers, who work together as a collaborative sibling duo...
, Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin
Tracey Karima Emin RA is a British artist of English and Turkish Cypriot origin. She is part of the group known as Britartists or YBAs ....
and Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk is a British artist and one of the Young British Artists . He often uses his own image in life-size sculptures of famous people.-Life and work:...
.
2nd Edition 2007
The 2007 festival bought together acclaimed writers, directors and artists from across Morocco and the world together in a rich forum of debate and cooperation. It grew in the number of participants and attendees and was Coordinated by Clare Azzougarh.The main Visual Arts Exhibition was of South African photography as well as the L’appartement 22 project curated by Abdellah Karroum. The venues included the Marrakech Museum
Marrakech Museum
The Museum of Marrakech is a museum in the old center of Marrakech, Morocco.The museum is housed in the Dar Menebhi Palace, built at the end of the 19th century by Mehdi Menebhi. The palace was carefully restored by the Omar Benjelloun Foundation and converted into a museum in 1997...
, ESAV Film School, Royal Theatre, Riad El Fenn, Riad Magi and Ksour Agafay.
Participants
Yassin Adnan,James Dearden
James Dearden
James Dearden is an English film director and screenwriter, the son of acclaimed English film maker Basil Dearden. He directed seven films between 1977 and 1999...
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Faouzi Bensaidi,
Walter Lassally
Walter Lassally
Walter Lassally is a German-born British cinematographer. He was closely associated with the Free cinema movement in the 1950s, and the British New Wave in the early 1960s. He also worked with Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis between 1956 and 1967, and with James Ivory in the 1970s and 1980s...
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Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is an English writer. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things. She has adapted many of her novels as TV dramas and has also written several film scripts, including the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for Pride...
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Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim is an Iranian singer, composer and dancer.Born in Tehran, her career began as a dancer with Iran's Pars National Ballet company...
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Farida Benlyazid,
Josdi Bieber,
John Boorman
John Boorman
John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...
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Ruth Charney,
Sarah Curtis,
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple
William Dalrymple, FRSL FRAS is an award winning historian and writer, as well as a broadcaster, critic and art historian. He has been the South Asia correspondent of the New Statesman since 2004...
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Ross Douglas
Ross Douglas
Ross Douglas is a voice actor with Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is known for voicing Daniel O'Connell in Master Keaton and recently in the Black Lagoon series as Kageyama.-Roles:...
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Edmond El Maleh,
Hamid Fardjad,
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt is a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid and more recently that country's landscapes.-Life and work:...
,
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant is a Swaziland-born British actor, screenwriter and director. His most notable role came in the film Withnail and I. He holds dual British and Swazi citizenship.-Early life:...
,
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist .- Biography :...
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Sally Hampson,
Christopher Hampton
Christopher Hampton
Christopher James Hampton CBE, FRSL is a British playwright, screen writer and film director. He is best known for his play based on the novel Les Liaisons dangereuses and the film version Dangerous Liaisons and also more recently for writing the nominated screenplay for the film adaptation of...
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Richard Horowitz
Richard Horowitz
Richard Horowitz is a composer, producer, arranger, and musician .He is best known for his work on The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, which was awarded the 1990 Golden Globe and LA Film Critics Music Awards; Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone, which was awarded the 2000...
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Pieter Hugo,
Hari Kunzru,
Nick Laird
Nick Laird
Nicholas 'Nick' Laird is a novelist and poet who was born, and grew up, in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He studied at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he attained a first in English. He went on to work at the global law firm Allen & Overy in London for six years, before leaving to concentrate...
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Santu Mofoken,
Daniel Morden,
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa
Zwelethu Mthethwa is a South African painter and photographer.Mthethwa, a native of Durban, received his diplomas at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. He received a Fulbright Scholarship that allowed him to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he received...
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Zanele Muhole,
Sam Neave,
Mark Peploe,
Simon Prosser,
Gabriel Range
Gabriel Range
Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in Death of a President...
,
Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah , né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi is an Anglo-Afghan Indian author, journalist and documentary maker. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.-Family origins and life:...
,
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a British writer and radio and television presenter.-Background:Kohli was born in London and moved to Glasgow in Scotland when he was four. His parents came to the UK from India in the 1960s. The family's roots lie in the Punjab. His mother was a social worker, and his...
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Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...
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Ian Softely,
Mikhael Subotsky,
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim
Guy Tillim is a South African photographer known for his black and white and later digital work, mainly of third world Africa and often of war- and trouble-stricken areas....
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Nontsikelelo Veleko,
Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.-Early life:...
.
3rd Edition 2009
The 3rd Edition of the AiM International Biennale 2009 directed by Vanessa Branson and coordinated by Clare Azzougarh was launched in November 2009. The main Visual Arts Exhibition, "A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places" was curated by Abdellah Karroum and held in the Palais Bahia. The Exhibition premiered works by Francis AlysFrancis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs is a Belgian artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. After leaving behind his formal training as an architect and relocated to Mexico City, he has created a diverse body of artwork that explores urbanity, spatial justice, and...
, Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco.-Life and work:Yto Barrada is the daughter of French journalist Hamid Barrada...
, Lordana Longo and Batoul S'Himi amoungst many others. Other Events included Julien Fisera and Laurent P. Berger Directing the Stories of Order and Dissorder which placed storytellers in taxis around the city; a Sketch Gallery London Curated by Victoria Brooks, Giles Round and Mark Ariel Waller bought their project Taverna Especial to an ancient Riad
Riad
Riad or Riyad may refer to:* Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia* Riad , people with the name* Riad , a garden inside Morocco's houses* Riyad, Mauritania* Riyad Hassan El-Khoudary, a member in the Executive Committee in the P.L.O....
in the Medina. Attendees also include Turner-nominee Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film...
, BBC TV arts executive Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.-Early life:...
and Morrocan film director Faouzi Bensaidi, actress Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...
and artist and film-maker Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
, who took part in many different, discussions and debates at venues including ESAV film school, Riad El Fenn and Ksour Agafay.
Participants
Adel AbdessemedAdel Abdessemed
Adel Abdessemed is a conceptual artist who lives and works in Paris, France. He is represented by David Zwirner, New York and Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv....
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Bani Abidi,
Yassin Adnan,
Mark Aerial-Waller,
Sofia Aguiar,
Mustapha Akrim,
Sobhi Al-Zobaidi,
Francis Alys
Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs is a Belgian artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. After leaving behind his formal training as an architect and relocated to Mexico City, he has created a diverse body of artwork that explores urbanity, spatial justice, and...
,
Noureddine Amir,
Alice Anderson
Alice Anderson
Alice Anderson BioBorn in England from an English man and a French-Jewish mother, Anderson was 4 years old when she was told not to speak English nor to mention her father after her parents separated....
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Younes Baba-Ali,
Raffaella Barker
Raffaella Barker
Raffaella Barker is an English author. She lives in Norfolk, England with her family. She is the daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker.-Publications:*"Poppyland" , ISBN 0-7553-2412-9...
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Yto Barada,
Marie-Louise Belarbi,
Faouzi Bensaidi,
Rachid Benzine,
Laurent P. Berger,
Omar Berrada,
Katrine Boorman,
John Boorman
John Boorman
John Boorman is a British filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama.-Early life:Boorman was born in Shepperton, Surrey,...
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Franck Bragigand,
Victoria Brooks,
Francois Bucher,
Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...
,
Chto delat?,
Tomas Colaco,
Stuart Comer,
Claudia Cristovao,
Shezad Dawood
Shezad Dawood
Shezad Dawood is an artist based in London.Dawood was born in London. His multi-media works are inspired by his varied cultural heritage, having a Pakistani mother, Indian father and an Irish stepmother...
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Sana El Aji,
Ahmed El Maanouni,
Nina Esber,
Charles Esche
Charles Esche
Charles Esche is a curator and writer. Since 2004, he has been Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall Journal and Afterall Books with Mark Lewis. Afterall is a contemporary art publication which was first launched in 1998 and is based at...
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Patricia Esquivias,
Hamid Fardjad,
Seamus Farrell,
Eric Fellner
Eric Fellner
-Life and career:Fellner went to Cranleigh School in Surrey, England from 1972-77. He attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He is a good friend of Hugh Grant, who is the star of some of Working Title's biggest box office hits. Fellner and his long-time partner, model Laura...
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James Fenton
James Fenton
James Martin Fenton is an English poet, journalist and literary critic. He is a former Oxford Professor of Poetry.-Life and career:...
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Julien Fisera,
Pedro Gomez-Egana,
Joana Hadjithomas
Joana Hadjithomas
Joana Hadjithomas is a Lebanese film director, screenwriter and producer. She often collaborates with Khalil Joreige. A Perfect Day is one of their most acclaimed films, and earned them the Don Quixote Award and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival...
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Leila Hafyane,
Sally Hampson,
Marius Hansen
Marius Hansen
Aage Marius Hansen was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Danish team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event in 1912.-External links:*...
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John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat
John Hillcoat is an Australian screenwriter and film director.Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode...
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Chourouk Hriech,
Fadwa Islah,
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien is an installation artist and filmmaker.-Biography:Julien graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1985, where he studied painting and fine art film...
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Abdellah Karroum,
Bouchra Khalili,
Hassan Khan,
Faouzi Laatiris,
Jooyoung Lee,
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a British playwright. She attended Plymouth High School for Girls, then progressed to a BA in Film and English at the University of Kent from 1985 to 1989 and then to a BA Acting Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama from 1996 to 1999.-Career:As a writer, her plays...
Loredana Longo,
Bernard Marcade,
James Marsh
James Marsh
James Marsh was a British chemist who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic.- Scientific work :...
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Mourad Mazouz,
Vincent Melilli,
Danny Moynihan,
Mark Nash
Mark Nash
Mark Nash is the drummer for Christian rock band PFR, and former husband to Leigh Bingham Nash of Sixpence None the Richer. Nash also served as A&R for Squint Entertainment.-External links:*...
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Heidi Nikolaisen,
Otobong Nkanga,
Kristina Norman,
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan, FRSL is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. He is also an Editor at Large of Esquire and is currently a creative writing fellow at King's College London. He was selected by for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists. His novels appear...
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Eleanor O'Keeffe,
Bouchra Ouezgane,
Catherine Poncin,
Pere Portabella
Pere Portabella
Pere Portabella i Ràfols is a Catalan experimental filmmaker, artist and politician.-Career as a Filmmaker:...
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Alexandra Pringle,
Younes Rahmoun,
Jose Roca,
Giles Round,
Rasha Salti,
Jerome Schlomoff,
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
,
Wael Shawky,
Batoul S'Himi,
Hardeep Singh-Kohli,
Kathryn Smith,
Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif
Ahdaf Soueif is an Anglo-Egyptian novelist and political and cultural commentator.-Life and career:Soueif was born in Cairo and educated in Egypt and England...
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Anna Steiger,
Anne Szefer Karlsen,
Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa
Abdellah Taïa is an openly gay Moroccan writer who has lived in self-imposed exile in Paris since 1998. Taïa writes in French and has had works translated into Basque, Dutch, English and Spanish....
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Naoko Takahashi
Naoko Takahashi
is a Japanese long-distance runner competing mainly in the marathon. She is widely known for her victory in the women's marathon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, a performance that stands as the current Olympic record. At the 2001 Berlin Marathon, Takahashi became the first woman to break the 2...
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Barbara Trapido
Barbara Trapido
Barbara Trapido, born 1941 as Barbara Schuddeboom, is a British novelist. Born in Cape Town and growing up in Durban she studied at the University of Natal gaining a BA in 1963 before emigrating to London. After many years teaching she became a full time writer in 1970.Trapido has published six...
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Justine Triet,
DJ U-Cef,
Nontsikelelo Veleko,
John Walsh
John Walsh
John Edward Walsh is an American television personality, criminal investigator, human and victim rights advocate and formerly the host, as well as creator, of America's Most Wanted...
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James Webb
James Webb
James Webb, Jim Webb or Jimmy Webb may refer to:Public service*James B. Webb, known as J. B. Webb , influential in shaping Australia's international relations and aid during the 1950s, 60s and 70s*James E...
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Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob is a British television executive and presenter who has worked throughout his career at the BBC.-Early life:...
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Hisham Zaman
Hisham Zaman
Hisham Zaman, , is a contemporary Kurdish-Norwegian filmmaker. He graduated from The Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer in 2004. He has made several award winning short films, most notably Bawke which has received more than 20 national and international awards.-Filmography:# The Bridge, 2003# The...
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John Zarobell.
External links
- Arts In Marrakech International Biennale Website
- Exhibition Website
- AiM 2005 Website
- AiM Liberatum Website
- L'appartement 22L'appartement 22L'appartement 22 is an independent, collaborative project founded by Abdellah Karroum and based in Rabat, Morocco.The first such space in Morocco, it has since inspired a number of artist-run spaces and collectives. From its first exhibition in October 2002, L'appartement 22 has consistently...