The jury responsible for judging applicants for Imkan 2016, a workshop that seeks to empower cultural leaders in the Arab region, has completed its task, selecting 15 trainees from seven Arab countries.
The following individuals will participate in this round of Imkan:
1- Mustafa Adnan Jamil El-Sakran – Jordan
2- Jamal Ouldali – Morocco
3- Mohammed Bassalah – Morocco
4- Nabil Ahmed Abdo Al Khadher – Yemen
5- Mona Yehya Zaeid Al-Muhakeri – Yemen
6- Asmahan Aqlan – Yemen
7- Ramzi Slimani – Tunisia
8- Dhafer Ben Ghrissa – Tunisia
9- Asmaa Azaiza – Palestine
10- Raed R. R. Ishnaiwra – Palestine
11- Emad Mabrouk – Egypt
12- Waguih Mohamed Hassan El-Laqany – Egypt
13- Mostafa Baiomy Soliman Baiomy – Egypt
14- Mohamed Ali Bela – Mauritania
15- El Moctar yehia El Moctar – Mauritania
The workshop will be held in Broummana, Lebanon, from 15 to 22 July 2016. Activities will cover two focal areas. One is to study and analyse the urgent issues of concern to workers in the cultural sector in the context of the current political climate (cultural policies, the role of culture and the arts in political and social change, the growth of cultural institutions, etc.). The second is capacity-building in cultural management and planning.
Imkan programme aspires to contribute to the empowerment of cultural leaders and managers in the Arab world so that they can play an effective and central role in the processes of political and social change in the region. Towards this end, it seeks to equip them with the skills, know-how and expertise they need to interact with, influence and develop the cultural work environment.
Imkan workshops were initiated by Culture Resource in 2013 and it has organised them annually since then in the framework of its Cultural Management Training Programme.
