Kamal Hacknar

French-Moroccan writer and director. Interested in the Jewish culture and heritage of Morocco, he learned Hebrew, and has organized cultural evenings with Jewish and Arab poets, as well as debates bringing Israeli and Palestinian students together. In 2012 he directed Tinghir Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah – a documentary following the Jewish community that left the Berber village of Tinghir in Morocco during the 1950s and 60s.