Previous FMA Editions
OUR STORY SO FAR…
The Festival has welcomed hundreds of local artists as well as top of the bill from all over the world. The programming offers professional as well as amateurs and young people the opportunity to express themselves through their art and to share their vision of the Arabic culture.
The former editions have witnessed the participation of great names in the worlds of music, dance and theatre : Caracalla dance company, Marcel Khalife, Naseer Shamma, Majida El Roumi, Hamza El Din, Simon Shaheen, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Ashraf Sharif Khan, Lotfi Bouchnak, Doreid Laham, Nass el Ghiwan, etc. and have produced hundreds of multidisciplinary creations and shows.
Serge Bouchard au FMA, Le dernier sourire du Prophète!
L’anthropologue, humaniste et penseur Serge Bouchard nous a quittés hier laissant derrière lui un legs sans pareil… Ami de longue date du Festival et porte-parole de sa 7e édition, Serge Bouchard a viscéralement marqué l’histoire du FMA au fil des éditions. Sa rencontre avec le grand penseur Mohammed Arkoun a été l’un des moments les plus emblématiques de l’histoire du Festival. Nous avons précieusement recueilli quelques extraits de ses allocutions et ses réflexions, avec la promesse de publier dans un avenir proche l’intégralité de ses interventions, des joyaux de notre patrimoine qui continueront à nous éclairer pendant longtemps… Bonne écoute et bonne lecture !
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SPACE 01, Worlds to conquer! Theme of the 21th FMA edition
In 2007, the Festival du Monde Arabe chose the theme “Space Zero” to denote both the shrinking of social space and the urgency of building new gathering places. The “common space” crisis that divided groups and communities at the time, fuelled by continuous...
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NOON IN THE WORLD – 20 YEARS OF ACROBATICS
Noon in the world – 20 years of acrobatics
Theme of the 20th edition of the Festival du Monde Arabe
Beneath a blazing sun, a tightrope walker teeters on a suspended wire…
Quduq Flamenco
From the shores of Syria to the gates of Europe, in Andalusia, this original production closing the 19th season of the FMA is an an illustrious and unusual meeting of two of the greatest musical traditions of the Arab world and the West: qudud and flamenco.
Read moreLooking back at the 19th editon – Chants de Mutants, aux rives de Gibraltar
Refus de visas pour les artistes algériens Nada Al Raihane et Kamel Maati. Sanaa Moulali chantera aux côtés de Ranine Chaar.
Montréal, le 7 novembre 2018. En raison d'un refus collectif des visas par les autorités canadiennes, le Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal (FMA) annonce que la chanteuse Nada Al Raihane ainsi que le chef d’orchestre Kamel Maati et son groupe ne pourront pas...
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CANCELATION – OMDA-SHOW – IMED JEMÂA
The show OMDA-SHOW, planed for Friday, November 2nd is cancelled due to a visa obtention issue. Thank you for understanding, The FMA team
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CHANTS DE MUTANTS – AUX RIVES DE GIBRALTAR
Chants de mutants Aux rives de Gibraltar* Songs of the mutants On the shores of Gibraltar Are they already dead, the living of whose Eldorado we sing? As seen from the South Shore. On the great evening of departure. Hungry, desperate, adventurers, thieves, good and...
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