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BRAHIM El MAZNED

As a member of the EU/UNESCO Bank of Expertise 2019-2022, and an expert on cultural policy and creative industries at the UNESCO for several years, Brahim El Mazned is also a member of the jury and artistic adviser for numerous cultural events in Morocco and across the world.
After more than twenty years of active participation in the cultural sector, Brahim El Mazned is considered today as an essential reference in the organisation of major artistic events and musical programming in Morocco and around the world. Moreover, he was recently selected in the Guide of Cultural Diversity, "Les Aventuriers de la Culture", among the 100 exemplary actors of sustainable cultural development, and as one of the 100 personalities who make difference in Morocco and promote it, according to “TelQuel.”
Since 2004, Brahim El Mazned has been the artistic director of Timitar Festival, an event mainly dedicated to Amazigh culture, which was made known throughout the world and which has become one of the major events in the world of music. Besides promoting the Amazigh (Berber) culture, the festival welcomes more than 600 artists and receives around half a million audience each year.
In 2009, he was invited to the North Africa and Middle East region to conduct a cultural pre-selection for 6th Francophone Games in Beirut and for the 7th edition in Nice (France) in September 2013 and for the 7th edition in Abidjan (Ivory Coast).
 
On 22 March 2013, his recognised expertise earned him the election as a member of the Board of Directors of the Forum of Worldwide Music Festivals (FWMF), one of the world's leading music festival networks.      
In 2014, Brahim El Mazned launched Visa For Music (VFM), the first festival/professional market dedicated to singers and musicians from Africa and the Middle East, which now takes place every year in November in Rabat (Morocco).
As a founder of the cultural enterprise, Anya, this tireless cultural entrepreneur has taken part in about a hundred conferences and has initiated dozens of artistic residencies in many countries and regions around the world (Brazil, France, Spain, Australia, United States, Canada, Reunion Island, New Caledonia, Madagascar, South Africa, Mali, Rwanda, Senegal, Norway, Greece, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon...). He has taken part in the recording and publishing of a dozen albums as well as in the organisation of hundreds of concerts in prestigious festivals and venues across the five continents. In addition to this, he participated in a multitude of meetings, training courses and workshops which aim at developing expertise and skills related to various positions in the cultural industry.
Attentive to the most current productions, Brahim El Mazned is also sensitive to the importance of preserving and enhancing Morocco's musical heritage. His commitment to the traditional repertoire has been materialised by the publication of “L'Anthologie de l'Aïta” (A boxed set of 10 CDs and 2 booklets). It is the first work of its kind which is entirely dedicated to this important repertoire of the Moroccan music. This work has indeed received the Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros in 2017 and very good reviews in the press. Brahim El Mazned has also just finished “L'Anthologie des Ṛṛways”, the Amazigh troubadour singers from southern Morocco. Brahim El Mazned is a cultural entrepreneur, and an associate of the ANYA cultural enterprise.