DAVOS, JANUARY 31 ST 2009

A R T I S T I C P R O G R A M

Me et Mo rocco

Nabil Ayouch is the director of many films among which« Ali Zaoua » and « Mektoub », Moroccan official nominations for the academy awards in Hollywood. More recently, he directed the international production « Whatever Lola wants » (Pathé Films). He also produced many features and directed major events such as the opening ceremony of « Temps du Maroc » in France at the Château de Versailles and the evening party dedicated to the presentation of Tangier’s bid for hosting the 2012 World Expo, at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.

Sounds, voices, motion, shapes, colors, fragrances…

Tonight you’re offered a glimpse of Morocco’s cultural

mosaic. These artistic and musical variety shows are

meant to give you a taste of a generous country,

one which has jealously preserved its traditions while

espousing modernity.

Here at Davos convention center whereabouts we are

inviting you to share and exchange.

Welcome, be it for the time of one night or forever you will...

Meet Morocco.

Nabil AyouchDirector

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Nabil KhaldiMusic Director

Nabil Khaldi, who was trained at the Arabo-Andalusian Conservatoire of Fez - Morocco, settled in France where he joined many musical ensembles. In the meantime, he joined the Arab rock band « Carte de Séjour ». He composed about fifty records of different style throughout the world. In 1999, he participated to the opening ceremony of « Temps du Maroc » in France at the Château de Versailles.

Hamid Daoussi AZ Zouhair Amkas Youssef Bouchou Khalid El Berkaoui Bouhssine Foulane Issam Kamal Rachid Zeroual

Mohamed El Abyad Saïd Erraji Rabii Lahssini Abdeslam Touijis

Conductor Percussion / DjembeDrumsBassPercussionRibab / violinGuitarNey / fingered melody pipe

Luth / Stringed music instrumentKeyboardPercussionSaxophone

SWIMMING POOL INSTRUMENTAL

PLENARY INSTRUMENTAL

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Arab calligraphy by Kabbari

Performers

Dance and percussion

Caftan fashion show

Exhibition of paintings owned by ONA Foundation

Lounge atmosphere

Hennaya (Moroccan tatoo)

Oriental Dance

Maalem Gnawa and percussion

Miloud Labied

Mohamed NabiliMohamed Kacimi

Mustapha Boujemaoui

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Photographic exhibition

Projection of a film around Morocco

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Maxime KaroutchiJudeo Moroccan songs

OumMoroccan Soul

RhanyMoroccan Music Variety

Aicha TachinouiteBerber Folklore music

Nawal Benabdallah Dance CompanyOriental and traditional dancing

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Instrumental Orchestra

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Mawal by Abdelfettah Bennis

Welcome Song

Nawal Benabdallah Dance Company

Tachinouite grass root Music Company

Oum

Procession of the Groom

Duet Abdelfettah Bennis and Myriam Sif

Majda El Yahyaoui

Rhany

Saïda Charaf

Maxime Karoutchi

Duet Oum and Maalem Baqbou

Flow Man

M E E T M O R O C C O

Issam KamalFusion

Flow ManHip Hop

DJ MoodRemix

CameliaMountassereDance

Saida CharafVoice from the

Sahara

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Maxime Karoutchi

Saïda Charaf

Maalem Baqbou and his Gnawa band

Rhany

Featurings DJ Mood and Flow Man

Duet Maxime Karoutchi and Majda El Yahyaoui

Camelia Mountassere and percussions

Trio Maalem Baqbou, Majda El Yahyaoui and Myriam Sif

Duet Bouhssine Foulane and Issam Kamal

Nawal Benabdallah Dance Company

Music trio: Ribab and percussions

Combination of Gnawa and Berber songs

Duet Maxime Karoutchi and Rhany

Trio Maxime Karoutchi, Rhany and Saïda Charaf

Quatuor instrumental

Nawal Benabdallah Dance Company The Trays Dance

Abdelfettah Bennis Mawal

Duet Abdelfettah Bennis and Myriam Sif

Myriam Sif Opera and berber songs

Oum Moroccan soul music

Nawal Benabdallah Dance Company Andalusian Dance

Majda El Yahyaoui Malhoun

Maxime Karoutchi Judeo Moroccan songs

Nawal Benabdallah Dance Company An Eastern Dance (Charqui)

Instrumental Quartet

Saïda Charaf Folklore from the Sahara region

Duet Maalem Baqbou and Saïda Charaf

Maalem Baqbou Gnawi songs

Aïcha Tachinouite Berber music

Abdelfettah Bennis Arabo-andalusian songs

Abdelfettah BennisAndalusian music

Maalem BaqbouGnawa music

Majda El YahyaouiMalhoun

Myriam SifLyric song

P l e n a r y

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M E E T M O R O C C O

Albert Oiknine

Rabea Telghazi Salmeron

Kenza Melehi

Noureddine Amir

Amine Bendriouich

Badia TaziGroom’s jewels

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JamalBenabdesslam

Leila Alaoui

Sifeddine El Amine

Artist Yasmina Alaoui and photographer Marco Guerra love totantalize their audience. In their life-sized photographic series «onethousand and one dreams», statuesque bodies appear frozen in time, covered from head to toe in meticulously detailed, contemporary Arabic Henna patters. Captivated by the realism and sculptural quality of each human form, the viewer becomes lost in an illusion.Yasmina Alaoui is of French and Moroccan descent. She has studied Fine Arts at the Carousel du Louvre in Paris, and earned a BA in Sculpture from William and Mary. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Jamal Benabdesslam is psychiatrist operating in the public sector in Rabat. He is inspired by the French

Humanist School, and his approach is based on day-to-day life aiming at exchanging and communicating

with his subjects. All his work is in black and white.

Leila Alaoui is a French-Moroccan portrait and documentary photographer who lives between New York City and Marrakech. Born in Paris and raised in Morocco, she pursued her studies in film and social

sciences in New York where she received a degree in photography.

The photography commemorates Sifeddine’s vogue and keeps him alive, his passion for the colors, lights, scenes and faces nourish the photography and make it an emotional and everlasting moment.

P h o t o g r a P h e r s

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Houda Kabbaj

Saad A. Tazi

Rizlane Lazrak

«As I seek light, matter and space, photography allows me to have a complementary approach. An endeavour of the senses to record a dilution in feeling quest of an image close to illusion.»

Saâd A. Tazi, anthropologist and fine-art photographer has been taking pictures of poetry for the eyes for more than 20 years. He focuses on small details that surround us and make the world and reveal its inner beauty.

Paradoxical as it may seem, her oneiric or dream-like world finds its source in reality by using diffusion effect,

body movement and relations between human beings close and distant from each other at the same

time.

«I have never played when I was a kid...»Mohamed Smyej’s images are a testimony of his daily fascination with the unforeseeable, the spaced out, the human being, or the most abstract experimentation. Luckily, Mohamed Smeyej is at last playing.

Amal Idrissi AyouchGeneral Coordination

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Vanessa De Los SantosAdjoint Coordination

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Karim Nabil1st Assistant Director

Marion Bruneau2nd Assistant Director

Laila LebbarProduction Manager

Amar RamdaneTechnical Manager

Halima BenzaariProduction Manager

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Anna KasprzakMake-up

Mohammed KhatiriDecoration

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Hind GhazzaliSet Manager

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