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Hello and welcome to my personal userpage,

having lived and worked in the Middle East, North and East Africa for many years until my retirement, I am especially interested in writing or contributing to articles about art and artists in these regions. Munfarid1 (talk) 12:54, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

User:Munfarid1
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Bad Saulgau, Germany
Nationality"The only real nation is humanity" (Thanks to Gerda Arendt for this quote.)
Occupation(s)professional nomad, retired from paid obligations
Known for
AwardsPrecious


The Sudanese Barnstar of National Merit

Women in Red Translation Contest Third Place, August 2024

BTW, here is a very useful link to Wikipedia Reference Search, a search engine that is limited to a few hundred higher-quality sources. - I wish I had discovered this much earlier, as it saves time compared to a simple search on regular search engines for WP editors.

My latest articles, or major updates of articles, reflecting my current interests:

Good articles: Sudanese literature, Music of Sudan, Photography of Sudan, Report on the restitution of African cultural heritage, Jewellery of the Berber cultures, Syrian literature

Sudan: Visual arts of Sudan, Architecture of Sudan, Richard Buchta, Gadalla Gubara, Aswat Almadina, Nancy Agag, Sharhabil Ahmed, Igd al-Jallad, Rasha, Talking about Trees, Ibrahim el-Salahi, Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin, Muhammad al-Fayturi, Abdel Karim Karouma, Mohammed al Amin, Mahmoud Abdulaziz, Hammour Ziada, Sabah Sanhouri, Khalid Albaih, Ibrahim al Kashif, Amir Taj el-Sir, Marwa Zein, Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Tayeb Salih, Malkat ed-Dar Mohamed, Al Balabil, Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, Khojali Osman, Sayed Khalifa, Ibrahim Ishaq, Ola Alsheikh, Maha Jaafar, Omnia Shawkat, Sudan Independent Film Festival, Francis Gregson, Rashid Mahdi, Omer Ihsas, Ala Kheir, Mohamed Altoum, Alaa Satir, Soudan 2019, année zéro, Abdallah al-Tayyib, Griselda El Tayib, Amjad Abu Alala, Taghreed Elsanhouri, Ishraga Mustafa Hamid, Eythar Gubara, Madeeh, Sudan women's national football team, Muhammad Taha Al-Qaddal, Salih Basheer, Zeinab Mohammed Salih, Sudan Memory, Khalil Farah, Najlaa Eltom, Adil Babikir, Talal Afifi, Tajouj (film), Rania Mamoun, Amna Elhassan, College of Fine and Applied Art (Khartoum), Ahmed Shibrain, Hammour Ziada, Fatin Abbas, Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani, Reem Gaafar, Amal Habani, Issraa El-Kogali, Sudan Ethnographic Museum, Amir Nour, Salah Elmur, Buthaina Khidir Mekki, Reem Aljealy

South Sudan: Bongo people (South Sudan), Stella Gaitano,

Morocco: Abdallah Zrika, Driss El Maloumi, Majid Bekkas, Jean Besancenot, Amina Agueznay, Malika Agueznay, Abdelouahed Mountassir, Youssouf Amine Elalamy, Brahim El Mazned, Visa for Music, National Jewellery Museum (Morocco), Layla Chaouni, Rabéa Naciri, Khadija Marouazi, Nadia Essalmi

Tanzania: Dinosaurs of Tendaguru, Hans Cory, George Lilanga, Makonde art, Bagamoyo Arts and Cultural Institute, Ocean Road Hospital, Tanzania National Archives

Other African countries: National Museum of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 3MA (music group), International Inventories Programme, Benin Dialogue Group, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Somaya Ramadan

Syria: Mouneer Al-Shaarani, Kinan Azmeh, Hewar, Dima Orsho, Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts (Damascus), Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, Damascus Opera House, Syrian National Symphony Orchestra, High Institute of Music in Damascus, Liwaa Yazji, Issam Rafea, Kareem Roustom, Hanna Diyab, Rima Bali, Missak Baghboudarian, Jan Dost, Najat Abdul Samad, Syrian literature, Faraj Bayrakdar, Mohammad Al Attar, Omar Youssef Souleimane, Kefah Ali Deeb, Widad Nabi, Syrian Writers Association, Nanda Mohammad, Hala Mohammad

Myanmar: National Museum of Myanmar (Yangon), National Museum of Myanmar (Naypyidaw), Willoughby Wallace Hooper, Philip Adolphe Klier, Max Henry Ferrars, United Nations Special Envoy on Myanmar, Myanmar Photo Archive

Germany: Manfred Leuchter, Ralf Dombrowski, Volker Perthes, Roman Bunka, LitProm, Hager Ali, Multaka, Andrea Böhm, Charlotte Wiedemann, Wilhelmine Sandrock, Annemarie Rübens, Cornelia Schröder-Auerbach, Anita Awosusi, Tayo Awosusi-Onutor, Dotschy Reinhardt, Cécile Verny, Cécile Verny Quartet, Heike Behrend, Dana von Suffrin, Isabel Kreitz, Anna Haifisch, Marie Marcks, Claudia Ott, Saba-Nur Cheema, Meron Mendel

Cinema: Cairo Station, Viola Shafik, Mounir Mourad, Goodbye Julia

History of photography: Photography of Sudan, Richard Buchta, Gabriel Lekegian, Francis Gregson, Rashid Mahdi, Willoughby Wallace Hooper, Philip Adolphe Klier, Max Henry Ferrars, Ruth Matilda Anderson

Other articles: Robert Lachmann, Wajdi al-Ahdal, Jalal Barjas, Lina Fruzzetti, Bénédicte Savoy, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, Karl Neufeld, Naeema al-Gasseer, Andreas Kronenberg, Refugee Phrasebook, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Sarah Mardini, Seán Binder, Nancy Mounir, Haji Jaber, Bushra El-Turk, Kanako Abe, Christian Poché, Golnar Shahyar, Titiou Lecoq, Renée de Vendômois, Charline Vanhoenacker, Simone Iff, Petra Gelbart, Mandy Abou Shoak, Las Migas, Sawad Hussain

For my contributions to Wikimedia Commons, see here

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