Morocco

_{A well-established and respected mid-career artist, Tibari Kantour is considered one of  Morocco's finest artists working with paper,:  Also a master printer, over the years Mr. Kantour has developed unique processes and equipment  for making paper, and through that, developed a mastery of his techniques, allowing him to concentrate on manipulating his paper to realize his artistic vision. Read more}

_{With the spread of Islam outward from the Arabian Peninsula in the seventh century, the figurative artistic traditions of the newly conquered lands profoundly influenced the development of Islamic art. Ornamentation in Islamic art came to include figural representations in its decorative vocabulary, drawn from a variety of sources. Although the often cited opposition in Islam to the depiction of human and animal...Read more}

_{North Africa, or the Maghrib, comprises Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Art of the Maghrib is distinguished by a mystical quality drawing on the region's symbols and signs that originate in pre-Islamic Berber motifs and a rich Islamic heritage introduced to the region by Arabs in the seventh century. From the Fezzan and Tassili petroglyphs in Libya and Algeria...Read more}

_{The latest film by the 2001 winner of FESPACO's top prize, Moroccan film director Nabil Ayouch, has been banned by the authorities in his country. Soon after Une Minute de Soleil en Moins, was finished, he was asked to make changes by the censors in Morocco. Ayouch told the BBC World Service programme FESPACO Live, “They wanted eight cuts to be made to my film”. Read more http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1522_latestfesnews/page8.shtml}