Courtney Erwin is a specialist in international and comparative law, with expertise in international human rights, humanitarian, and criminal law and Islamic law. She has lived in the Middle East North Africa region for six years and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Courtney has over a decade of experience working internationally with religious, political, legal, and civil society actors, in addition to UN agencies, multi-lateral organizations, and foreign governments.
In 2014, Courtney moved to Morocco and began working as Senior Program Specialist at the Mohamedian League of Religious Scholars (al Rabita al Mohammadiyya lil ‘Ulama’), which provides intellectual leadership on religious matters through a network of sixteen research centers in Morocco. In this role, she assists the Secretary General in research on countering violent extremism. She has also provided strategic guidance for the establishment of its new Center for Research and Training in Interfaith Relations.
Ewa Potocka, born in 1977, is a Polish artist living in Morocco since 2013. She got her Ph.D. in Intermedia Art from the Fine Art Academy in Cracow, Poland in 2010. Painter, printmaker, video artist, and art-gamemaker she was founder of feminist net-art group “Grzenda.pl”, and created the first artistic internet VR game in Poland. She was a lecturer at the University of Humanities and Economics in Lodz and the Fine Art Academy in Cracow, Poland. Her work experience also includes graphic design, UI design, UX design, video editing, animation, illustration and publications. As an intermedia artist she shows her work in individual and collective exhibitions in Europe, USA and Canada.
Niccy Pallant has spent the last 3 years immersed in the craft and culture of Morocco initiated by a two month International Group Residency in Tetouan in Morocco’s North in 2017. After 25 yrs of working as an Arts educator and leader in South Australian Schools, she has been able to pursue a lifelong dream to work as an Artist.2018 & 2019 Niccy toured South Australian schools with ‘Hey Talisman’ and ‘Mizan Zaman’ a collaboration with Morocccan craftsman and scholar Hamza El Fasiki and Moroccan Musician/Artisan Imad Eddine Dably for Australia’s largest multi-platform arts festival ‘Adelaide Fringe’. They conducted workshops in Islamic art, sacred geometry, leather embossing and Sufi music for over 1500 students ranging from 5 to 18 yrs old.
Neil van der Linden, agent in culture exchange with North-Africa, Middle-East, Central Asia, Subcontinent, the West, co-founder and editor of the Gulf Art Guide, www.gulfartguide.com and https://www.facebook.com/gulfartguide
After Evi Blink, born 1986 in Heidelberg Germany, finished her apprenticeship as photographer in 2011, she started to
work as a freelancer in Cologne and has worked for different clients: Aktion Mensch Magazin, Stadt Köln, Universität zu
Köln and others
Additionally she studies photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund.
Evi's interest in general is to find experimental ways to describe issues in society, emotions and different processes.
Abstraction is a very important part of her works right now.
Her analog work "suchen.wissen.Amsterdam" is currently shown in a group exhibition in Bielefeld, Huelsmann Museum.
Latest she is working on a project about young women in Marrakech.
Fatma Gültaş, born 1989, has been a co-curator of the independent art space Prima Kunst in Kiel,Germany since 2011. Currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Fine Art under the tutelage of Professor Piotr Nathan at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Art and Design parallel to a Master of Education in Philosophy at the Christian Albrecht University in Kiel. A part of her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and Philosophy was completed at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul, where she conducted original research on two of the city’s mosques; the Hagia Sophia and Selimiye.In addition to her work at the Prima Kunst Gallery, her art has been exhibited in group shows in Kiel, Berlin, Hamburg, NYC, Istanbul, Danzig, Fez. She took part in Artist-in-Residence-Programms in Turkey, Marocco and Taiwan.
Miriam is a writer from London, living in the Fez Medina. Splitting her time between blogging, journalism and short fiction, she focuses on the smaller details of daily life in the old town. As assistant editor, she works on Fez Photo’s written material. As a creative partner in the project, she provides insights from her own work into life in Fez.
Patrick Segura is a video, performance, sound, and installation artist living in Chicago. Patrick received his BFA in Painting from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2011 and his MFA in Fiber and Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014. Dealing with issues of body, play, virtuality, and sexuality, he draws from his background of gaming to create structures for understanding these ideas and their relationships. He embraces emergent technologies to help excavate his conceptual territory. Patrick is a Luminarts Fellow, a College Art Association Fellow, as well as the recipient of SAIC’s Dean's Scholarship and the Clay Morrison Scholarship. He was also a representative of SAIC in EXPO Chicago. Patrick has shown work in the Prospect 2 Biennial, Acadiana Center for the Arts, and Sullivan Gallery in Chicago.
Ali Gharib is a German-Lebanese artist based in Karlsruhe, Germany. His work is characterized by the use of different media, which are assembled through pop cultural aesthetics. After his successful education studies (2004-2010) at the University of Cologne, Germany, he attended the study of media art (2010-2018) at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe with Prof. Isaac Julien and graduated with Prof. Siegfried Zielinski.
Passionnée de mode, elle crée en 2015 un défilé pour jeunes créateurs dénommé La Fashion Parade avec deux éditions qui s'en suivent. En 2019, elle crée une marque de vêtements, accessoires, sacs, chaussures autour du wax baptisée Le Dressing. Le Dressing est un mix entre tissus imprimés wax, bogolan et style urbain.
Abdel Aziz SALIFOU TRAORE event planner and Dj
Apprenticing with his master/father, Hamza is a multidisciplinary craftsman: a Geometer, Brass-Smith, Bookbinder, Paper-Maker and a performing Andalusian Oud Musician. He has a professional experience as student, trainer, facilitator and consultant in both arts and social entrepreneurship in Morocco, USA, Algeria, Turkey, Japan, Greece, UAE, Germany, UK, Malaysia, the Philippines, Egypt, Cyprus , Tunisia and Australia. He is the founder and Instructor of Craft Draft, a multidisciplinary art studio offering Moroccan traditional visual Arts & Crafts workshops to all age groups around the globe.
Lamiae is a creative self taught Silversmith & Entrepreneur. She was born and raised in Fez, and came back to the spiritual city to start her silversmith atelier last year. Lamiae left her corporate job in the Innovation sector to do something more meaningful and discovered her passion for jewelry making. She creates and sells jewelry under her brand Elhora Jewels, and gives jewelry making workshops in her atelier in Fez.
Courtney Erwin is a specialist in international and comparative law, with expertise in international human rights, humanitarian, and criminal law and Islamic law. She has lived in the Middle East North Africa region for six years and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Courtney has over a decade of experience working internationally with religious, political, legal, and civil society actors, in addition to UN agencies, multi-lateral organizations, and foreign governments.
In 2014, Courtney moved to Morocco and began working as Senior Program Specialist at the Mohamedian League of Religious Scholars (al Rabita al Mohammadiyya lil ‘Ulama’), which provides intellectual leadership on religious matters through a network of sixteen research centers in Morocco. In this role, she assists the Secretary General in research on countering violent extremism. She has also provided strategic guidance for the establishment of its new Center for Research and Training in Interfaith Relations.
Passionnée de mode, elle crée en 2015 un défilé pour jeunes créateurs dénommé La Fashion Parade avec deux éditions qui s'en suivent. En 2019, elle crée une marque de vêtements, accessoires, sacs, chaussures autour du wax baptisée Le Dressing. Le Dressing est un mix entre tissus imprimés wax, bogolan et style urbain.
Passionnée de mode, elle crée en 2015 un défilé pour jeunes créateurs dénommé La Fashion Parade avec deux éditions qui s'en suivent. En 2019, elle crée une marque de vêtements, accessoires, sacs, chaussures autour du wax baptisée Le Dressing. Le Dressing est un mix entre tissus imprimés wax, bogolan et style urbain.
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