Leila Ghandi

Leila Ghandi (Arabic: ليلى غاندي; born July 26, 1980), nicknamed "The Moroccan Titouan Lamazou"[1] or "Bent Battouta" (The daughter of Ibn Battuta), is a Moroccan photographer and journalist.

Not to be confused with Leela Gandhi.

Leila Ghandi
Born (1980-07-26) July 26, 1980
Casablanca, Morocco
Known forPhotography
Television presenter
AwardsOrdre des Arts et des Lettres
2014
Websiteleilaghandi.ma

Early life

Leila was born in Casablanca in 1980. She is the daughter of Amal Alami and Ali Ghandi, former Director General of the Moroccan Association of the pharmaceutical industry died March 13, 2010.[2][3] At age of 5, she entered the Théophile Gautier-school located in the district of Maârif until 1991, the date when she joined the Lycée Lyautey. After obtaining her baccalauréat in the Lycée Lyautey of Casablanca in 1998, Leila Ghandi joined between 1998 and 2002 BEM Management School in Bordeaux and studied international business. Later, in 2004, she obtained her Master at Sciences Po in Strategic Marketing in Politics. During her studies in Sciences Po, between 2002 and 2004, she did an exchange at the University of Portsmouth and obtain a degree in European Business and Management.[4][5]

Career

Chroniques de Chine

Leila Ghandi trip to China in 2003. A year later, she returns to the country to work in Franco-Chinese training center in Beijing depending on the Embassy of France in China as a responsible European project.[5][6][7]

During her travel, she regularly sent emails to her family to tell them about her new life. Back in Morocco, the idea came to her to bring all her notes into a book. Thus it published in December 2006 Chronicles from China published by Le Fennec Editions. The preface of the book was done by Dominique Reynié, who was her professor at the Sciences Po in Paris.[2]

To publish her work, Leila Ghandi obtained a financial grant from the Cooperation Service and Cultural Action of the Embassy of France in Morocco.[2]

In 2008, she was a member of the jury at the 12th International Film Festival Adventure and Discovery in Val-d'Isère.[8] The same year, she won the "Trophy of Success in the Feminine" at the Luxembourg Palace, delivered by Secretary of State for Urban Policy Fadela Amara.[6][9]

I am deeply moved and very happy to award you this trophy because you represent exactly the style of free and modern women that must exist worldwide.

— Fadela Amara, minister[10]

In 2009, she receives for her book the Literary prize from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).[6]

Voyages avec Leila Ghandi

Since 2012, she animated a program with her name on 2M TV Voyages avec Leila Ghandi (Travels with Leila Ghandi) which are broadcast monthly in prime time for the documentary program Des Histoires et des Hommes (Histories and Humans).[11][12]

It is a series of travel documentaries which highlight the culture and lifestyle of each country, through human stories, where she tries to dine and stay with the locals.[13]

During her trip to Palestine in 2013, she met several personalities including Michel Warschawski, President Mahmoud Abbas she interviews for nearly an hour in his office of Mukataa in Ramallah.[14][15]

With this episode, she won in the same year the prize Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award TV category, organized by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures, advancing journalists of France 2 and Arte.[15][16]

In 2013, Leila Ghandi participates in the documentary of Serge Moati "Méditerranéennes – mille et un combats" [Mediterranean – thousand and one battles], broadcast on France 2 in the program Infrarouge.[17][18]

Her episode "Leila Ghandi in Tunisia" was in competition at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in June 2013.[17]

In January 2014, she was elected among the 50 personalities that make Morocco by the magazine Jeune Afrique.[19]

The program Voyages avec Leila Ghandi have been shown in three seasons, and as of June 2016 18 episodes have been broadcast:

Episode Country Broadcasting date Channel
Season 1
1  Turkey March 25, 2012 2M TV
2  Brazil April 29, 2012
3 Amazon rainforest May 27, 2012
4  Senegal June 24, 2012
5  Lebanon October 28, 2012
6  South Korea November 25, 2012
7  Tanzania December 30, 2012
Season 2
8  Viet Nam January 27, 2013 2M TV
9  Tunisia February 24, 2013
10  Argentina March 26, 2013
11  Palestine April 28, 2013
12  Belgium May 26, 2013
Season 3
13  Egypt (Cairo) January 3, 2016 2M TV
14  Norway February 7, 2016
15  Spain (Madrid) March 6, 2016
16  Jordan April 3, 2016
17  Bosnia (Sarajevo) May 1, 2016
18  France (Paris) June 5, 2016

Personal life

According to TelQuel, Leila Ghandi earn a salary around 20 000 dirhams per month ($2000 USD).[20]

During the French tour of jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater in 2000, Leila Ghandi accompanied him as a dancer. Percussionist, she is also a member of the Brazilian group "Batala" that occurs in many festivals and carnivals.[21]

Between 3 and 8 May 2015, with twenty women, she participates in the "Women and Power: Leadership in a New World" program organized by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University[22]

Exhibitions

In December 2005, she exhibited some specimens around the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.[1]

During her trip in China, she took her first series called "Timeless China : la Chine d'un autre temps" which was exhibited at the Lucernaire Gallery (Paris) in January/February 2006.[23]

She exhibits the same series at the Art Lounge Gallery of Beirut in April 2006, under the name of "Timeless China & spiritual, portraits of Tibet".[21][24]

In January 2007, she participated with four other photographers to exposition "Regards (de) marocains sur le monde" held at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Casablanca.[2][25]

In 2011, Leila Ghandi won the first place award for the European Union-African Union Professional Photography Competition "African Beauty in all its states" as a representative for North Africa.[26] her photos have been exhibited at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Africa Hall and the French Alliance of Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 16th AU Summit, held on January 30 and 31, 2011.[26][27]

In March/April 2012, she exhibited her collection "Vies à vies" in the Art Gallery CDG of Rabat.[28]

Awards

Bibliography
  • Chroniques de Chine [Chronicles from China] (in French). Éditions Le Fennec. 2006. p. 176. ISBN 9954-415-60-2. Archived from the original on November 12, 2017. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  • Chroniques de Chine [Chronicles from China] (in French). Condé-sur-Noireau: Éditions Bachari. 2007. p. 236. ISBN 978-2-913678-36-1.
  • Coll. (2011). "Chapitre 7: La Puja, hommage au Soleil". Les Amoureux de l'Inde: Histoires de rencontres [Lovers of India: Dating Stories] (in French). Éditions Brumerge. pp. 38–41. ISBN 978-2-917745-36-6.

References
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  2. Belkhayat, Nadia (January 4, 2007). "Leïla… La Ghandi de Chine". L'Économiste (in French).
  3. Benabid, Mohamed (March 16, 2010). "L'industrie pharmaceutique perd un de ses pionniers". L'Économiste (in French).
  4. "Ghandi, Leïla". dimabladna.ma (in French). Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2016.
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  6. Qotb, Loubna. "Leila GHANDI". artistesaumaroc.com (in French).
  7. "Photo. Trip chinois d'une Casaouia". TelQuel (in French). January 2006. Retrieved May 23, 2016.
  8. "Palmarès du festival International du Film Aventure et Découverte de Val d'Isère 2008". laviedesfilms.com (in French). Archived from the original on June 29, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  9. "LE TROPHEE DE LA REUSSITE AU FEMININ AU PALAIS DU LUXEMBOURG le 10/03/2008" (PDF). fem-med.eu (in French). Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  10. "Leïla Ghandi est une figure emblématique de l univers euro- méditerranéen". docplayer.fr (in French). Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  11. Rivière, Clair (March 15, 2012). "Télévision. Des docus et des hommes". TelQuel (in French). Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  12. Bataillon, Eric (September 19, 2015). "Orient Hebdo:Voyages avec Leïla Ghandi". Radio France Internationale (in French). Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  13. "Voyages avec Leïla Ghandi : Le concept". 2M TV (in French). Archived from the original on May 1, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  14. "Leila Ghandi en Palestine". bladi.net (in French). May 1, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  15. Aït Bayahya, Mae (October 28, 2013). "Entretien avec Leïla Ghandi, animatrice TV, productrice et réalisatrice". Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb (in French). Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  16. "Winners of the 2013 Edition". annalindhfoundation.org. Retrieved May 20, 2016.
  17. Jennyfer Aizenman (June 17, 2013). "Leïla Ghandi : "Une femme doit savoir se battre deux fois plus"". aufeminin (in French). Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  18. "MÉDITERRANÉENNES : MILLE ET UN COMBATS ÉMISSION DU 18/06/2013". France 2 (in French). Retrieved June 15, 2016.
  19. Slimani, Leïla (January 16, 2014). "Les 50 qui font le Maroc : Leïla Ghandi". Jeune Afrique (in French).
  20. "Combien gagnent les stars au Maroc ?". happyknowledge.com (in French). November 7, 2014.
  21. "LEILA GHANDI LA GLOBE-TROTTEUSE". hautetfort.com (in French). April 20, 2006. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  22. EL-FAIZ, SABRINA (March 6, 2016). "Leila Ghandi, première Marocaine sélectionnée par Harvard pour le Women and Power". yabiladi.com (in French).
  23. "PHOTOGRAPHIE : LEÏLA GHANDI EXPOSE À PARIS". La Vie Éco (in French). Retrieved May 18, 2016.
  24. "TIMELESS CHINA & SPIRITUAL TIBET BY LEILA GHANDI". artlounge.net. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  25. "Regards (de) Marocains sur le monde". babelmed.net. January 15, 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  26. "16TH AU SUMMIT: THE WINNERS OF THE AU/EU PHOTO CONTEST ANNOUNCED". africa-eu-partnership.org. January 17, 2011. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  27. Collateral Creations (February 24, 2011). "African Beauty". afriqueinvisu.org (in French). Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  28. "Les photographies de Leila Ghandi exposées à Rabat" (PDF). Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb: 24. March 10–11, 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 30, 2017. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
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