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Amal Ayouch
Amal Ayouch (born 1966) is a Moroccan actress who since the late 1990s has performed in the French language both on stage and, above all, in film. In January 2015, she was honoured with an award at the African Women's Film Festival in Brazzaville. Ayouch has played a leading role in Morocco's ''Fondation des arts vivants'' (Living Arts Foundation). Biography Born in Casablanca in 1966, Amal Ayouch showed interest in acting from an early age, performing on stage at high school. When she was 18, she arrived in Montpellier where she studied to become a pharmacist. While at university, in 1987 she joined a theatre group attached to the French literature department. She began her film career thanks to another pharmacist, Hassan Benjelloun, who gave her an important part in ''Les Amis d'hier'' (1998). Soon afterwards, Hakim Noury invited her to star in ''Destin de Femme'' together with Rachid El Ouali. Playing a woman who refused to submit to a difficult husband, she contributed to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casablanca
Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business center. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in the Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the List of largest cities in the Arab world, eighth-largest in the Arab world. Casablanca is Morocco's chief port, with the Port of Casablanca being one of the largest artificial ports in the world, and the second largest port in North Africa, after Tanger-Med ( east of Tangier). Casablanca also hosts the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy. Casablanca is considered a Global Financial Centre, ranking 54th g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driss Chouika
Driss is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Driss Basri (1938–2007), Moroccan politician, Interior Minister 1979–1999 *Driss Ben-Brahim, former partner and head of Goldman Sachs trading *Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi (born 1937), the pseudonym for Larbi Layachi, a Moroccan story-teller *Driss Benhima, chairman of the board and CEO of Royal Air Maroc, the national airline of Morocco *Driss Benzekri (activist) (1950–2007), Moroccan left-wing political and human rights activist *Driss Benzekri (footballer) (born 1970), retired Moroccan football goalkeeper *Driss Chraïbi, (1926–2007), Moroccan author *Driss Debbagh (died 1986), Moroccan ambassador to Italy (1959–1961) *Driss El Himer (born 1974), French long-distance runner *Driss El Khouri, Moroccan novelist *Driss Jettou (born 1945), the Prime Minister of Morocco 2002–2007 *Driss Ksikes, Moroccan journalist *Driss Maazouzi (born 1969), French 1500 metres runner *Driss Moussaid (born 1988), boxer from Morocco * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Stage Actresses
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Moroccan Film Actresses
Moroccan may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to the country of Morocco * Moroccan people * Moroccan Arabic, spoken in Morocco * Moroccan Jews See also * Morocco leather Morocco leather (also known as Levant, the French Maroquin, or German Saffian from Safi, Morocco, Safi, a Moroccan town famous for leather) is a Vegetable tanning, vegetable-tanned leather known for its softness, pliability, and ability to take c ... * * {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actors From Casablanca
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Française (film)
''Française'' is a 2008 film. Synopsis Sofia, born in France of North African parents, lives a happy childhood in a French suburban city. Her father, feeling homesick, decides to take all the family back to Morocco. Sofia suddenly finds herself on a Moroccan farm. She is just ten years old and swears she will pass all her exams with flying notes to be able to go back to France when she is eighteen. But life is full of surprises… Awards * Rotterdam International Film Festival (2009) * Dubai International Film Festival The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF, ar, مهرجان دبي السينمائي الدولي) is the leading film festival in the Arab region. The 12th edition of DIFF took place from December 9 – 16, 2015. In 2018, the DIFF announc ... (2008) External links * 2008 films French drama films Moroccan drama films 2000s French films {{2000s-France-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabil Lahlou
Nabyl Lahlou (born 1945 in Fes, Morocco) is a Moroccan theater director, author and actor, known for being an innovative theater and film director, and is considered one of the most influential Moroccan theater directors of the 1980s. Background He studied theater in Paris at Académie du Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and L'Ecole Charles Dullin, and later taught at Kordj-el-Kifane (Algeria). He wrote plays in both French and Arabic; among his French plays are ''Ophélie n'est pas morte'' (Ophelia is Not Dead) (1969) and ''Schrischamtury'' (1975), and among his Arabic ''Les Milliandaires'' (The Millionaires) (1968), ''Les tortues'' (The Turtles) (1970), and ''Asseyez-vous sur les cadavres'' (Sit on Corpses) (1974). His first medium length film was ''Les mortes'' (The Dead) (1975), while his first feature-length film was ''Al Kanfoudi'' (1978). Theater Lahlou directed his first play ''al-Sa"aa'' in Morocco in 1965, then left to study in France, returning in 1970. Many of his wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Anges De Satan
''The Satanic Angels'' (french: Les Anges de Satan) is a 2007 Moroccan film, directed by Ahmed Boulane. Synopsis ''The Satanic Angels'' is the story of fourteen young hard rock musicians who are arrested and sentenced to three months to one year in jail for "shaking the foundations of Islam" and "Satanism" after a surrealistic trial. Society and the media mobilize to free them. Awards * Festival National du Film (Tanger, 2007) * India International Film Festival (2007) * Avanca Film Festival (Portugal, 2007) References * 2007 films Moroccan drama films {{Morocco-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Younes Megri
Younès Mégri ( ar, يونس ميكري; born November 15, 1951 in Oujda, Morocco) is a Moroccan singing artist and actor. Beginnings Younes Megri started singing and playing guitar at a very young age and came from a family of artists. His father played the lute and practiced painting, his mother sang in a religious music band, his brothers played the guitar and his sister was a singer. In 1960 the family moved to Rabat. He studied music at the Moroccan National Conservatory of Music in Rabat, as well as at the École Normale de Musique de Malesherbe in Paris. As part of Les Frères Mégri He became part of Les Frères Mégri (the Megri Brothers) singing group, made up of the three brothers, Hassan, Mahmoud and Younès Mégri, and their sister Jalila Mégri. Younès was their youngest member. In 1974, Les Frères Mégri released the album ''Younes et Mahmoud'' (Arabic: يونس و محمود مكري ) that was a collaboration between the brothers Younès and Mahmoud. The seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
