Historical Archives & Public Figures

فاطمة شبشوب

Morocco

1952 – 2006 (54 years old)

Visionary dramatist, director, and university professor who made history as Morocco's first female Halqa street storyteller, transforming traditional masculine oral theater into feminist social critique.

Casablanca, Morocco

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El Hachemi Guerouabi

الهاشمي قروابي

Algeria

1938 – 2006 (68 years old)

Undisputed modern giant of Algerian Chaabi music who modernized the Casbah musical genre with peerless vocal elegance, theatrical charisma, and unforgettable masterpieces like 'El Barah'.

Algiers, Algeria

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Ismail Shammout

إسماعيل شموط

Palestine

1930 – 3 July 2006 (76 years old)

Founding father of modern Palestinian painting whose iconic realist and symbolic canvases depicted the Nakba and the return to the homeland.

Amman, Jordan

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Cheikha Rimitti

الشيخة ريميتي (سعدية الغيزانية)

Algeria

1923 – 2006 (83 years old)

Fierce and legendary Algerian vocalist acclaimed as the 'Grandmother of Raï' (Godmother of Raï), who defied social conventions for six decades to sing raw, uncensored songs of female desire, poverty, and liberation.

Val-de-Marne, France

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Marcel Dubé

Canada

1930 – 2006 (76 years old)

Prolific Quebec dramatist whose powerful urban tragedies Zone and Un simple soldat captured the existential alienation of working-class youth on the eve of the Quiet Revolution.

Montreal, Canada

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Edgar Naccache

إدغار نقاش

Tunisia

1917 – 2006 (88 years old)

Leading Tunisian Jewish painter and co-founder of the Tunis School whose luminous Mediterranean landscapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes captured the soft coastal light of Carthage.

Paris (Memorial in Tunis), France

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أحمد زكي

Egypt

1949 – 2005 (55 years old)

Universally revered as Egypt's greatest method actor, 'The Black Tiger' delivered astonishing chameleon transformations embodying Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, Taha Hussein, and Abdel Halim Hafez.

Cairo, Egypt

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Kenzo Tange

丹下健三

Japan

1913 – 2005 (91 years old)

Titan of 20th-century architecture who rebuilt Hiroshima with the Peace Memorial Park, designed the iconic sweeping suspension roofs of the Yoyogi National Gymnasium, and won the 1987 Pritzker Prize.

Tokyo, Japan

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M. S. Subbulakshmi

മധുരൈ ഷൺമുഖവടിവ് സുബ്ബലക്ഷ്മി

India

1916 – 2004 (88 years old)

Pioneering Indian Carnatic classical vocalist hailed as 'The Queen of Song' by Jawaharlal Nehru, who became the first musician awarded the Bharat Ratna and first Indian to perform at the UN General Assembly.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India

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Cherif Lamrani

الشريف لمراني

Morocco

1947 – 2004 (57 years old)

Founder, mandocello virtuoso, and chief composer of the groundbreaking Moroccan protest group Lemchaheb, who fused Maghrebi rhythms with electric mandolin, rock, and polyphonic vocal counterpoints.

Casablanca, Morocco

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Yahia Benmabrouk

يحيى بن مبروك (القويط / المساعد)

Algeria

1928 – 2004 (76 years old)

Legendary comic and dramatic actor who formed the immortal duo with Hadj Abderrahmane as 'L'Apprenti' and was a stalwart of the Algerian National Theater.

Algiers, Algeria

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