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Under the High Patronage of

His Majesty King Mohammed VI

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Table of contents

The SpiriT of feS foundaTion

The MeSSage froM The preSidenT

The MeSSage froM The direcTor

The MeSSage froM The arTiSTic direcTor

The preSS releaSe

The feSTival

2012 ediTion

The feSTival venueS

feSTival arTwork

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The Spirit of Fes Foundation

Based on a vision in which culture and cultural tourism is a real engine of sustainable development, « Esprit de Fes » (Spirit of Fes) has set as a major

objective initiation, planning and support for any activity that promotes this kind of development within the city of Fes. Acting on national and international levels, the Foundation helps promote the image of Fes as a center of intra and inter-cultural peace and dialogue.

Through an approach that enhances both the tangible and intangible heritage of Fes and innovative creation, the Foundation acts as a catalyst to keep the link between the secular spirit of Fes and its future. The major events that the Foundation initiates and supports are: firstly, the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music. The festival is the Foundation’s most prominent event owing to its national and international success and improvement year after year. Then, the Jazz in Riads Festival in palaces and residences of the medina of Fes, and the Festival of Culinary Art. Simultaneously, the Foundation supports

and accompanies both artistic and scientific projects like the Festival of Amazigh Culture, Klam & Slam Festival and the Festival of Samaa and Madih, which serve to promote the plurality of Morocco’s identity, enhance the cultural heritage and challenge its relationship to modernity and contemporary creativity. In addition, and in an attempt to innovate while enhancing achievements, the Foundation opens up to academia both locally and internationally and is increasingly involved in major intellectual debates that are fundamentally related to human societies, paving the way to comparative visions that lead to better understanding between societies, aiming at bringing them closer to each other while preserving their specific identities. In the year 2008, the Foundation participated in or directed the following events: The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music

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The Message from the President

Of all the aspects of Fes, it is Andalusian culture that we celebrate this year, the one dimension into which all the others are joined together with ingenious alchemy. For more than eight centuries, this has come to encompass the Amazigh, Arab,

Iberian, Roman and Visigoth cultures with Eastern and Western cultures tossed into the same pot. In the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, it has made the different Abrahamic faiths commune with each other.

The year 2013, observes the remarkable anniversary the Zirid Dynasty of the Kingdom of Granada, founded 1,000 years ago. It is an occasion that will be celebrated throughout Andalusia and the world. We might also bear in mind that the Spirit of Fes Foundation continues in the same vein, as this great human adventure, forging ahead with its current projects combining confidence and passion into the future particularly with the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.

- Mohamed Kabbaj - President, Spirit of Fes Foundation

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The Message from the Director

There are certain periods in history that stand out in our memory as special, when mankind seems to rise above the usual small mindedness and actions become a source of inspiration for generations to come. The golden era of Al Andalus embodied this

with ingenious harmony between spirit and matter, faith and reason art and co-existence or simply, a time when individual and community life was rich and accomplished.

Various philosophers who worked actively during the Andalus period (from the 8th to the 15th centuries), Ibn Tufail, Averroes, Maimonides, Raymond Lulle and Ibn Arabi. Anda-lusian thinkers, Ibn Hazm or Ibn Gabirol among them, held that knowledge itself cannot be separated from its twin, complementary dimension: love. They form an integral whole. More important still, love freed of all constraints can become, more and more over time, unconditional and universal. These writers might well have paraphrased the wisdom of Rabelais to say that knowledge without loveis naught but the death of the soul. A true cult of femininity reached its highest point during this Andalusian era; that civilization saw a culture of courtly love and of poetry flourish. Today, we need to rediscover the mystery and the rich resources half concealed in this paradigm. Nizam (Harmonia), who personified the feminine archetype and the SophiaPerennis, to whom Ibn Arabî paid homage in his poetic work, The Interpreter of Yearnings (Turjuman al achwak), can overcome the bounds of time and place and bring us back from the far Orient so that we can, even today, learn from each of the ancient philosophers, all them part of the history of Fes. In this way, we can speak of an Andalusian paradigm: one where knowledge above all led organically towards the realiza-tion of one aim - the quest for greater wisdom and deeper human values.

Perhaps, the secret to retrieve from this magical Andalusia will be whispered to us in the shadows or in moments of light, between songs, musical interludes and poetry, carried by the breezes that move through the Bab al Makina or in the lanes and courtyards of the Medina.

- Faouzi Skali - Director of the Spirit of Fes Foundation

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The message from the artistic director

No matter what the complex geopolitical realities of history are, in the eyes of the Arab poet Andalusia was not simply Utopia but the very height of harmony. He was an aficionado and aesthete passionate about the poetic

Orient, and saw Andalusia as a paradise where the monotheistic faith was nourished and both modal and polyphonic music stood alongside each other. This fascination with Andalusia represented an oasis for the soul, a daydream, and became a universal vision, far from the standardised, materialistic melting-pot of today’s globalisation.And this fascination led to a resurgence of the ancient idea of the city as microcosm in which the quintessence of the arts and wisdom was expressed through a masterful, harmonious way of life, again far from the tumult and agitation of our cities today. The symbol of the riad, with its protective walls and its patio open to the stars and to infinity, falls within this vision of the great ancient civilisations inspired by cosmic order. Thus in Fes, this proud and possessive Andalusia, will be celebrated at the 19th Festival where a large number of specially commissioned compositions will be premiered. These works fall under the history of Andalusia, but also within a humanity that has, for several decades now, affirmed its common origin through the freedom to express its differences.The artists will perform together in that magical moment of the ritual that we call a ‘concert’ but will go beyond simple fusion: the Mongolian steppes will meet the pastoral Sardinian mountains, and the raga of a Bengali night will join with the intricacies of the sacred music of Couperin and Lully. The reconnection of Aïcha Redouane with her Amazigh roots, the intimate musical journal of Rosemary Standley, of the group Moriarty, the image of Andalusia as a rainbow by Amina Alaoui, the voice of Françoise Atlan as she encounters another historic land - that of Palestine - will all form the crucible for new inspiration. The exceptional presence of Patti Smith who, influenced by beat, rock, folk and punk cultures, has forged her personality as a singer, musician, poet, painter and photographer, will complete this feminine take on artistic creation.Once again, women’s voices from the Mauritanian desert, from the Armenian church, of great Syrian song and from the Himalayan heights of Bhutan, will echo through the

lanes of the medina. These lanes will merge with others - those of the Alfama quartier of Lisbon where fado music - a music of loss and longing - was born, and those of La Plana in Marseille, heart of urban Occitania.The Amazigh, Arab, flamenco, Muslim, Jewish and Christian aspects of Andalusia will be brought to life at the opening concert, under the artistic direction of the great contemporary flamenco dancer Andres Marin, with Carmen Linares and a large number of artists representing all these Andalusias. Paco da Lucia will show us his virtuosity in world-renowned flamenco style.Bab Al Makina will become the Golden Gate of Istanbul, another mythical city where its Byzantine and Ottoman heritage made it the symbolic meeting place between the Mediterranean East and West. It will also be the gate to paradise that an African-American gospel choir from Chicago will sing about in collaboration with musicians from Ladysmith, a town in the heart of South Africa that still retains its spiritual nature.

- Alain Weber - Directeur artistique

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The Press release

One of the best loved music festivals in the world has attracted a star-studded lineup for its 19th edition. Headlining The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music this year is the celebrated

American singer-poet Patti Smith and the legendary flamenco guitarist from Spain, Paco de Lucia. For eight magical days from 7 to 15 June, visitors from many countries will gather in Morocco’s ancient spiritual, cultural and intellectual capital, for a feast of musical offerings from around the world in a fascinating diversity of venues. Patti Smith and Paco da Lucia will be playing beneath the stars in the sky at the 3,500 seater Bab Makina - a parade ground attached to the Royal Palace surrounded by castellated walls. One festival visitor described the Bab Makina as «like walking into the Arabian nights». The 2013 festival theme Reflections of Andalusia is celebrated on the opening night at the Bab Makina with Love Is My Religion -- a specially commissioned dance, poetry and musical extravaganza directed by the dance maestro Andres Marin. More than 30 Arab-Andalusian, Sufi, Amazigh and Spanish flamenco artists will take part in the spectacle. Afternoon concerts and some evening ones are staged under a giant Barbary Oak tree in the Andalusian gardens of the Batha Museum. This is an ideal location for more intimate events, featuring solo performers and smaller ensembles. This year the festival welcomes Nomadic voices from the steppes of Mongolia and the mountains of Sardinia, a Turkish musical journey with a Byzantine choir and whirling dervishes, together with musicians from Egypt, France, Lebanon, Mauritania, Syria, South Africa and Morocco. The Batha is also one of three venues chosen for the Nights in the Medina, regarded by many Fes aficionados as the heart centre of the festival. For three evenings, visitors roam the alleyways of the medina, the old city and the largest of its kind in the world. As they walk from one concert to another, they are immersed in a way of life that remains almost the same as it was in medieval times. Nights in the Medina performances at Batha, Dar Adiyel and Dar Mokri include Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami from India, the Jewish-Muslim El Gusto ensemble from Algeria, sacred songs from the kingdom of Bhutan and the Fado talent of Portugal’s Ana Moura.

Many international visitors choose to join the citizens of Fes who gather in their thousands at Place Boujloud for the free concerts staged as the Festival in the City. These are sometimes experimental and usually loud and exuberant. At the end of each day, the action moves to the Dar Tazi, the home of the festival organisers, The Spirit of Fes Foundation. Here on the edge of the medina, Sufi ensembles from Morocco and beyond conjure up mystical ecstasy with music, chanting and support from enthusiastic audiences. The Fes Festival attracts musicians seeking fresh inspiration as well as international music lovers, many of whom return year after year. VIP guests in previous years have included members of the Irish super group U2, composer Osvaldo Golijov, Queen Rania of Jordan, Jude Kelly the Artistic Director of the South Bank in London and Bernadette Chirac, wife of the former French President. Bono, the U2 lead singer and humanitarian activist, spoke passionately about his transformative experience: «Fes is a holy place for musicians», he said, «we came to pay tribute and to learn. We are on a pilgrimage.» This year the festival welcomes the return of Chris Ekers as sound supremo, following a two year break while he was Head of Sound Production for the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics. The 2013 theme, Reflections of Andalusia, explores the cultural and spiritual relationship between Fes and Moorish Andalusia, which flourished for 800 years until the late 15th century. The Moorish period was renowned for its religious tolerance, music, poetry, great philosophers and tradition of courtly love. The Fes Festival of World Sacred Music was founded in 1994 by Faouzi Skali, Director General of The Spirit of Fes Foundation. His aim, following the First Gulf War and in harmony with Andalusian ideals, was to create a focal point for peaceful collaboration between people of all races and religions, rooted in spiritual and humanitarian values. «Music is the common language of humanity», he says «it speaks to all of us.» .

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The Festival

Fes forum 2013: « Giving Soul to Globalisation » From 8th au 11th June from 9h to 12h Batha Museum

This year, the Fes Forum takes place on the first four mornings of the Festival (8-11 June, 2013). Its theme is “Andalusia: Seeking new models for a troubled world through the golden era ”We have come to believe, in recent years, in a promise of unlimited economic growth. The credo of homo economicus seems to be ‘Set your sights on the economic kingdom and everything else will be given to you.’ Yet the ‘everything else’ remains elusive and seems far from our grasp. In our turbulent world of rapid change, revolution, and new faces both of peace and violence, while these basic questions about life’s very purpose present themselves with a new urgency.Some studies in economically developed societies hint that people’s satisfaction with their lives has dropped by more than 30% compared with the 1960s. Technological progress was supposed to liberate people, allowing them to concentrate on essentials, but it has not kept its promise. ‘Is it possible,’ asks one philosopher, ‘that we are condemning ourselves to forced labour into perpetuity?’Yet other ideas are emerging. One that has generated much interest is Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index (GNH). First viewed as an abstract or quaint approach, it is spurring decision-

makers and civil society to probe their fundamental understandings of wealth and development. Other initiatives look to laying the foundations of a society that is more just, more equitable and that can balance its tangible and intangible assets. They imagine a world where cultures thrive in harmony, each drawing both on what is best in itself and in others. It is a world beyond tolerance and negative peace, where nature is in balance with mankind’s spirit, in one sense a utopia but a utopia that seems within our grasp. We present this graspable utopia as a “new Andalusia.” The Fes Forum and Festival both aim to trace the finest lines of this ideal and to explore ways to promote it.Thus this year we celebrate the Andalusian heritage of Morocco’s spiritual capital, Fes. Long before it receded in histories simply to another chapter, Andalusia was held up as an ideal era, a paradigm of what civilisation could and should be. We set out to rediscover its meaning and its deep secrets, in the hope that it will offer us inspiration as we grapple with the realities of our present.

Faouzi Skali Director of the Spirit of Fes Foundation

Katherine MarshallVisiting Professor / Executive Director Georgetown

University/ World Faiths Development Dialogue

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Children’s Activities 7-15 June The Festival also runs daily activities for children and teenagers. These educational and artistic activities comprise exhibitions, concerts, shows and various other events. The program runs during the Festival and is a great success each year.

The Festival

Sufi Nights From 8th au 15th June starting 23h Dar Tazi(free of charge)The Sufi Nights are daily free concerts. They take place throughout the Festival as a fitting finish to the day’s events in a warm atmosphere full of spirituality and conviviality. It’s a perfect moment to be shared by all, in the gardens of Dar Tazi in the heart of the Fes medina.

Art Exhibitions From 7th au 15th Batha Museum and Dar Tazi Running in parallel with the concerts of Festival week are exhibitions and screenings in various locations such as Dar Tazi and the Batha Museum. Each year, painters from all over the world make their artistic contribution to the Festival by exhibiting their work under the arcades of the Batha Museum or at Dar Tazi ... it’s their way of bringing their own touch to the theme this year, Fes: Reflections of Andalusia.

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2012 EditionPartners & Sponors

•10 Festival days •13 concerts at Bab al Makina and the

Batha Museum •9 concerts at the Nights in the Medina•More than 450 artists•5 art exhibitions•33 participants at the Fes Forum Giving

Soul to Globalisation•40 000 Festival visitors•300 people per morning at the Fe Forum

Giving Soul to Globalisation, making a total of 1200 over the four mornings

•410 000 Festival in the City visitors•600 000 visits to the Festival website

between 15 January 2012 and 30 June 2012 (an increase of 10%)

•70 000 subscribers to the Newsletter

Festival statistics

P a r t e n e r s

O f f i c i a l S p o n s o r s

S p o n s o r s o f t h e S h o w

M e d i a P a r t n e r s

The audienceWe can’t talk about one audience; the Festival attracts an extraordinarily diverse audience, both at the level of artists, thinkers, storytellers or dancers and at the level of the public, for whom the Festival remains very accessible. Whether they come from Morocco or are overseas visitors, the teenagers, students, workers or retired people are happy with the Festival programming. Some are on a spiritual quest and prefer to attend the Sufi Nights, while others enjoy different cultures of the world at the Nights in the Medina or at the spectacular shows of the Festival Off held at Boujloud Square. Then, for those who like to debate the international questions of our time, the Fes Forum Giving Soul to Globalisation is the place to be.

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The Festival Venues

Place BoujloudBoujloud Square is situated at the entrance to the ancient Medina of Fes, and covers an area of some 28 000 sq m. It’s considered as one of the most important historic monuments of the Medina. It functioned as a market place for merchants and was the centre of the flea market (Jouteya).Restored for the city’s inhabitants, Boujloud Square is now used for cultural activities.

Bab Al MakinaA monumental gate built in 1886 during the reign of Moulay Al Hassan, this was the main entrance to the Royal Palace. It opens onto the Mechouar, a large square used for official ceremonies. This square is home to the evening concerts.

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The Festival Venues

Musée BathaThis former palace was built by Moulay Hassan (1873-1894) and was used for royal audiences during the summer months. In 1915 it was transformed into a Museum of the Arts and Traditions of Fes, and was listed as an historical monument in 1925. In the courtyard under a Barbary oak that’s several hundred years old, the Fez Forum takes place in the morning, and concerts in the afternoon.

Dar AdiyelBuilt towards the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th, this palace has been used for several official and public functions: as a mint, as the kingdom’s treasury, as a museum of traditional craft and, after independence, as the Music Conservatory of Morocco for classical Andalous Music.

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The Festival Venues

Dar Mokri Situated in Oued Sawwafine, this palace was built at the beginning of the 20th century by Driss Moqri who was Mohtassib of Fes and brother of the Grand Vizier Lhaj Mohammed. There are several pavilions arranged around an open courtyard. For some years the palace has housed the Institute of Traditional Building Techniques and is used for training artisans in the restoration of traditional buildings.

Dar TaziThis palace was built in 1900 and served as the Governor General’s Residence from 1914-1956. After independence, it was home to two Fez Governors and then the Pasha who lived there until the end of 1986. It then became the headquarters of the Fès-Saïss Association. The Sufi Nights take place here after the concerts at Bab Al Makina.

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A truly artistic patchwork, the artwork represents the theme this year: Fes: Reflections of Andalusia.

In 15th century Andalusia, miniature art hardly existed … the poster is designed as a miniature might have been at that time. It has a naïf feel, with layers of different scenes (as sometimes found in Persian miniatures) of entrancing symbolic animals out of scale, that seem to jump right out of the page, and of people who seem to want to tell us something.

Noticeable in the foreground is an historical figure representing one of the great intellectuals of the Andalusian period: Ibn Tofail perhaps, or Maimonides or Raymond Lulle. He is in conversation with Nizam, also known as Harmony, who is his source of inspiration.

In the background is the woman herself – the muse, who has a dreamy look … she represents the source of inspiration, the feminine creator, the Princess of Murcia … her presence is evident, but is she real or imaginary ?

In the universe of the muse, historical truths and symbolic representations meld: there is a courtyard where scholars recline, studying wise manuscripts; an Andalusian garden composed of rare plants; magical animals; that fabulous bird the simorgh; Arabian horses royally caparisoned; a peacock.

Such a blend of alchemy tells of the essence of Andalusia, which gave birth to civilizations, to artistic and cultural traditions, to cities of learning … that essence whispering through the lanes of Fes that told her how to build her minarets, her sumptuous riads, how to nurture the wise men of science and philosophy, how to bring up her children in the spirituality and love of the divine being.

Festival Artwork

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Friday 7 June Wednesday 12 June Bab Al Makina 21h00 - Opening Concert Premiere - Original Creation of the Fes Festival A premiere of poetry, music and dance telling the story of Andalusia from Fes to Granada Mise en scène Andres Marin. Avec Carmen Linares, La Macanita, Cherifa, Françoise Atlan, Baha Ronda, Abdallah Ouazzani...

Dar Mokri 14h00 - 18h00MoultaqaAn initiation into choreographic and musical arts through the language of meditation

Saturday 8 June Thursday 13 JuneBatha Museum 16h00Nomadic Voices of the Steppes and the Mountains - Sardinia and Mongolia Cuncordu E Tenore de Orosei and singers Ts. Tsogtgerel et N. Ganzorig of MongoliaBab Al Makina 21h00The golden gateway – Greece, Turkey

Batha Museum 16h00Axivil Aljamía – Spain Bab Al Makina 21h00Assala Nasri – Syria

Sunday 9 June Friday 14 June Batha Museum 16h00Coumbane Mint Ely Warakane – MauritaniaBab Al Makina 21h00 Paco de Lucia – Spain

Batha Museum 16h00Françoise Atlan and the Al Quds Ensemble – Morocco, PalestineBab Al Makina 21h00Ladysmith Chicago Gospel Experience – South Africa, USA

Monday 10 June Saturday 15 June Batha Museum 16h00Abeer Nehme – Aramaic, Syriac and Byzantine Song – Lebanon

Batha Museum 16h00Lo Còr de la Plana – FranceBab Al Makina 21h00Patti Smith - USA Tuesday 11 June

Batha Museum 16h00Aïcha Redouane - Morocco, France

19th edition ProgramProgram 2013

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19th edition Program

Fes Forum 2013

Nights in the MedinaMonday 10 June

Dar Mokri 19H30 22H00

Ensemble Lyannaj Bélé de Martinique - FranceA tribute to Aimé Césaire

Dar Adiyel 19H30 22H00

Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami Khyal Song - Northern IndiaKhyal Song – Northern India

Batha Museum 20H30

At the heart of the Sufi Nile - EgyptA ceremony in a village in Upper Egypt

Dar Batha22H00

Ykeda Duo Tamayo Ykeda and Patrick Zygmanowski Piano concert

Tuesday 11 JuneDar Mokri

19H30 22H00

Samira Kadiri – Morocco

Dar Adiyel 19H30 22H00

Rosemary Standley et Dom La Nena - FranceBirds on a wireRosemary’s Songbook

Batha Museum 20H30

El Gusto - Algeria, FranceThis great orchestra of Algerian Chaâbi origin, is at the heart of Arabo-Andalusian and Judeo-Arab music

Wednesday 12 June Dar Mokri

19H30 22H00

Reflections of an Indian night - France IndiaXVIII-21 Le Baroque Nomade and Pandit Shyam Sundar Goswami

Dar Adiyel 19H30 22H00

Sacred songs from the Kingdom of BhutanJigme Drukpa, Pema Samdrup et Namkha Lhamo

Batha Museum 20H30

Ana Moura – PortugalThe fado of Lisbon

Around the Festival free entry

Batha Museum From 8-15 June

Art exhibition Andalusian Dreams by Moroccan artists Meriem Mezian and Mohamed Krich,

curated by Rachid Chraïbi

Borj Sud (outside) Sunday 9 June from 23h00

Screening of the film Looking for Muhyddin by Nacer Khemir, who will be in attendance.

Megarama CinemaWednesday 12 June from 17h00 to 19h30

Screening of the film Le Premier Homme (The First Man) by Albert Camus, film by Gianni Amelio and produced by Bruno Pessery, Abdou Achouba and

Ricardo Tozzi, followed by a round-table discussion.

Palais Jamaï Friday 14 June from 10h00 to 12h00

Spiritual Andalusia, a presentation by Leili Anvar and Michael Barry

Festival in the City free entry

Dar Tazi “Sufi Nights” 8-15 June from 23h00

These outdoor samaâ concerts are open to all, and give a glimpse into Islamic culture through the richness and creativity of its artistic and spiritual dimensions. The following Sufi brotherhoods will

participate : Tariqa Habibia (Taza), Tariqa Derkaouia (Azemmour), Hajji Marouane, Tariqa Touhamia (Fes), Tariqa Hassania (Laayoune), Tariqa Ajibia (Tangier),

Tariqa Hamdouchia and Tariqa Ouazzania.

Boujould Square From 8-15 June Open-air concerts from 22h30

Complex Houria From 8-15 June Artistic and cultural activities for the youth.

Jnan Sbil Gardens From 8-15 JuneShems’y National Circus School from Salé.

Hammss street theatre

Batha Museum8 -11 Juin 2013

‘‘ New Andalusia: local solutions for global disorder.’’. An important time for discussion and exchange between people from all over the world, the Forum takes place over four mornings and centres on the Festival theme.

Fes Forum 2013 «Giving soul to globalization»

Contemporary challenges for diverse and plural societies (also honoring the the centenary of the birth of Aimé Cé-saire).

Can financial markets be made to work in harmony for the global good? What has the global economic crisis taught? What challenges and issues remain

Looking to fresh economic and social paradigms as a guide: exploring Bhutan’s experiment with a focus on Gross National Happiness as a guide to national leadership

Fes: Seeking meaning and inspiration in the legacies of An-dalusia: linking development to its cultural heritage and its present.

Saturday 8 June

Sunday 9 June Tuesday 11 June

Monday 10 June

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The ContactsManagement press Marocco

Eziza Sid’[email protected]

Management Director Asia & North America, Festival & ForumZeyba [email protected]

Management Director France, Festival & Forum Catherine Bendayan

[email protected]

Management Director Festival & Forum UKMary Finnigan

[email protected]

Management Director Spain, Festival & Forum Mohammed El-Idrissi

[email protected], Spain

Ramon Fornós [email protected]

Communication, SpainGiuliana Cesarini

[email protected]

Management Festival & Forum Italy Fabrizio Guglielmini

[email protected] Director Middle Est, Festival & Forum

Fatiha Benmansour [email protected]

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