The Gnaoua and Music of the World Festival of Essaouira will host the 12th edition of its Human Rights Forum on June 20 and 21, 2025, with the central theme “human mobility and cultural dynamics”.
During these two days, and in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community abroad (CCME), intellectuals, artists and researchers will come together to explore migratory stories and their cultural influence.
Andrea Rea, professor at the Free University of Brussels, will kick off with a conference on new mobility geographies. The historian Pascal Blanchard will look at the social representations of migration, while the political scientist Fatima Zibouh and the digital sociologist Dana Diminecu will discuss tensions between migration and public policies.
The forum will also highlight renowned artistic figures, such as filmmakers Faouzi Bensaïdi and Elia Suleiman, the writer Véronique Tadjo, and the artist Barthélémy Toguo. Among the authors present, we will find Elgas, Rim Najmi, Taha Adnan and Abdelkader Benali.
Neila Tazi, producer of the festival, underlines that the forum extends the mission of the festival by examining how ideas circulate like musical rhythms. For Driss El Yazami, president of the CCME, this forum highlights the creative contributions of migration in the face of closing speeches.
