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Cherif Lamrani
Arts & Music
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Cherif Lamrani

ุงู„ุดุฑูŠู ู„ู…ุฑุงู†ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1947 โ€“ 2004 (57 years old)

Founder, mandocello virtuoso, and chief composer of the groundbreaking Moroccan protest group Lemchaheb, who fused Maghrebi rhythms with electric mandolin, rock, and polyphonic vocal counterpoints.

Casablanca, Morocco
Yahia Benmabrouk
Arts & Music
6
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Yahia Benmabrouk

ูŠุญูŠู‰ ุจู† ู…ุจุฑูˆูƒ (ุงู„ู‚ูˆูŠุท / ุงู„ู…ุณุงุนุฏ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1928 โ€“ 2004 (76 years old)

Legendary comic and dramatic actor who formed the immortal duo with Hadj Abderrahmane as 'L'Apprenti' and was a stalwart of the Algerian National Theater.

Algiers, Algeria
Cheikha Djenia
Arts & Music
4
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Cheikha Djenia

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎุฉ ุงู„ุฌู†ูŠุฉ (ูุงุทู…ุฉ ู‚ู†ุฏูŠู„)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1954 โ€“ 2004 (50 years old)

Raw, charismatic queen of traditional gasba-driven Raรฏ from Sidi Bel Abbรจs, famous for unfiltered emotional improvisation and poetic storytelling.

Sidi Bel Abbรจs, Algeria
Arts & Music
0
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Enrique Grau

Enrique Grau Araรบjo
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฆ Panama
1920-12-18 โ€“ 2004-04-01 (83 years old)

Master painter and sculptor of the 'Big Five' of modern Colombian art whose sensual, theatrical portraits of Afro-Colombian women and bronze sculptures celebrated Caribbean warmth and cultural hybridity.

Cartagena, Colombia
Safia Chamia
Arts & Music
8
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Safia Chamia

ุตููŠุฉ ุงู„ุดุงู…ูŠุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ง Lebanon
1932 โ€“ 2004 (72 years old)

Beloved popular singer and musical comedian whose vibrant stage energy, sparkling wit, and hits like 'Mahla Qadek' shaped Tunisian radio, theater, and television for five decades.

Tunis, Tunisia
Chaรฏbia Talal
Arts & Music
30
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Chaรฏbia Talal

ุงู„ุดุนูŠุจูŠุฉ ุทู„ุงู„
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1929 โ€“ 2004 (75 years old)

Celebrated self-taught Moroccan painter from Chtouka whose vibrant, raw, and uninhibited canvases of rural women and feasts earned global acclaim from the CoBrA movement and the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Casablanca, Morocco
Vilayat Khan
Arts & Music
32
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Vilayat Khan

เคตเคฟเคฒเคพเคฏเคค เค–เคผเคพเคจ
๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Bangladesh
1928 โ€“ 2004 (75 years old)

Indian sitar virtuoso of the Imdadkhani gharana who modified the structure of the sitar to develop the revolutionary 'gayaki ang' (vocal style), making the instrument sing with the human voice.

Mumbai, India
Safia Farhat
Arts & Music
16
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Safia Farhat

ุตููŠุฉ ูุฑุญุงุช
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1924 โ€“ February 7, 2004 (80 years old)

Trailblazing Tunisian visual artist, ceramicist, and educator who was the only female member of the ร‰cole de Tunis, celebrated for revitalizing traditional tapestry weaving and championing women's artistic independence.

Radรจs, Tunisia
Arts & Music
4
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Cheikh Mohamed El Marsaoui

ุงู„ุดูŠุฎ ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ู…ุฑุณุงูˆูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1932 โ€“ 2004 (72 years old)

Master violinist and supreme interpreter of Aita Marsawiya who defined the sound of Casablanca and Chaouia popular music across five decades of recorded vinyl and radio broadcasts.

Casablanca, Morocco
Mohamed Kacimi
Arts & Music
16
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Mohamed Kacimi

ู…ุญู…ุฏ ุงู„ู‚ุงุณู…ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1942 โ€“ 2003 (60 years old)

Major figure of modern Moroccan contemporary art whose large-scale monumental canvases, raw pigments, and poetic writings championed human freedom and human rights.

Rabat, Morocco
Hatem El Mekki
Arts & Music
4
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Hatem El Mekki

ุญุงุชู… ุงู„ู…ูƒูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia
1918 โ€“ 2003 (85 years old)

Master painter and national graphic designer who designed post-independence Tunisia's banknotes, coins, and hundreds of official postage stamps, and pioneered political cartooning.

Carthage, Tunisia
Kamal El-Taweel
Arts & Music
8
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Kamal El-Taweel

ูƒู…ุงู„ ุงู„ุทูˆูŠู„
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1922 โ€“ 2003 (80 years old)

Master melodic composer and architect of 1950sโ€“1960s Arab patriotic anthems, who composed Abdel Halim Hafez's timeless romantic songs Ahwak and Fi Youm Fi Shahr, and Umm Kulthum's Wallahi Zaman Ya Selahi.

Cairo, Egypt
Tahia Halim
Arts & Music
15
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Tahia Halim

ุชุญูŠุฉ ุญู„ูŠู…
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Sudan
September 9, 1919 โ€“ May 24, 2003 (83 years old)

Distinguished Egyptian expressionist painter who won the prestigious Guggenheim International Award in 1958, celebrated for her deeply empathetic, earth-toned canvases depicting the ancient folklore, boats, and women of Nubia.

Cairo, Egypt
Arts & Music
4
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Jean-Franรงois Zevaco

ุฌุงู† ูุฑุงู†ุณูˆุง ุฒูŠูุงูƒูˆ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1916 โ€“ 2003 (86 years old)

Casablanca-born architect and visionary of Moroccan brutalist modernism who designed the sculptural post-earthquake monuments of Agadir and won the 1980 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

Casablanca, Morocco
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