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Azzedine Medjoubi
Arts & Music
12
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Azzedine Medjoubi

ุนุฒ ุงู„ุฏูŠู† ู…ุฌูˆุจูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1945 โ€“ 1995 (49 years old)

Giant of Algerian stage and cinema, director of the National Theatre of Algiers (TNA), assassinated outside his theater during the Dark Decade for defending free artistic expression.

Algiers, Algeria
Cheikh Sadek El Bรฉjaoui
Arts & Music
1
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Cheikh Sadek El Bรฉjaoui

ุตุงุฏู‚ ุงู„ุจุฌุงูˆูŠ (ุจูˆุญูŠ ุจู† ุงู„ุณุนูŠุฏ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1907 โ€“ 1995 (87 years old)

Master and educator of the Andalusian and Hawzi musical school of Bejaรฏa, composer of 'Ya Qalbi Isbar', who trained El Hachemi Guerouabi and Djamel Allam.

Bejaรฏa, Algeria
Samia Gamal
Arts & Music
14
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Samia Gamal

ุณุงู…ูŠุฉ ุฌู…ุงู„
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
1924 โ€“ 1994 (70 years old)

World-renowned Oriental dancer and Golden Age actress who fused traditional Egyptian baladi with classical European ballet, famously dancing barefoot and starring alongside Farid al-Atrash.

Cairo, Egypt
Cheb Hasni
Arts & Music
30
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Cheb Hasni

ุงู„ุดุงุจ ุญุณู†ูŠ (ุญุณู†ูŠ ุดู‚ุฑูˆู†)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1968 โ€“ 1994 (26 years old)

Legendary Algerian singer acclaimed as the 'King of Love Raรฏ' (Raรฏ Sentimental), whose heartfelt romantic ballads enchanted millions across North Africa before his tragic assassination in Oran at age twenty-six.

Oran, Algeria
Anni Albers
Arts & Music
30
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Anni Albers

Anneliese Else Frieda Fleischmann
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
1899 โ€“ 1994 (94 years old)

German-American textile designer and printmaker who elevated weaving to a monumental fine art form and became the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at MoMA.

Orange, United States
Abdelkader Alloula
Arts & Music
12
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Abdelkader Alloula

ุนุจุฏ ุงู„ู‚ุงุฏุฑ ุนู„ูˆู„ุฉ
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1939 โ€“ 1994 (54 years old)

Master Algerian dramatist and director who revolutionized modern Arab theater by adapting the traditional North African storytelling circle (Halqa), assassinated for his defense of humanism.

Oran, Algeria
Arts & Music
0
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Paul Guiragossian

ุจูˆู„ ุบูŠุฑุงุบูˆุณูŠุงู†
๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Palestine
25 December 1926 โ€“ 20 November 1993 (66 years old)

Monumental Armenian-Lebanese master painter whose vibrant, elongated figurative canvases captured the collective suffering and maternal hope of the displaced.

Beirut, Lebanon
Mustapha El Anka
Arts & Music
1
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Mustapha El Anka

ู…ุตุทูู‰ ุงู„ุนู†ู‚ู‰
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1926 โ€“ 1993 (67 years old)

Versatile actor and Chaabi musician, eldest son of the grand master El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka, who starred in classic Algerian comedies like 'Omar Gatlato' and 'Les Vacances de l'Inspecteur Tahar'.

Algiers, Algeria
Ahmed Wahby
Arts & Music
29
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Ahmed Wahby

ุฃุญู…ุฏ ูˆู‡ุจูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
1921 โ€“ 1993 (71 years old)

Algerian musical pioneer who co-founded the modern Oranian musical genre (Al-Asri) alongside Blaoui Houari, combining Bedouin Waharani poetry with modern Middle Eastern orchestral melodies.

Algiers, Algeria
Baligh Hamdi
Arts & Music
14
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Baligh Hamdi

ุจู„ูŠุบ ุญู…ุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt
October 7, 1931 โ€“ September 12, 1993 (61 years old)

Peerless Egyptian composer whose innovative genius transformed Arab music from the 1960s onward, creating legendary masterworks for Umm Kulthum, Abdel Halim Hafez, Warda, and Shadia by infusing authentic Upper Egyptian folk melodies with modern orchestration.

Cairo, Egypt
Abbas Saladi
Arts & Music
12
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Abbas Saladi

ุนุจุงุณ ุตู„ุงุฏูŠ
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco
1950 โ€“ 1992 (42 years old)

Visionary painter from Marrakesh whose mystical, meticulously drafted gouaches merged medieval Islamic miniatures, esoteric dreams, and fantastical hybrid creatures.

Marrakesh, Morocco
Satyajit Ray
Arts & Music
31
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Satyajit Ray

เฆธเฆคเงเฆฏเฆœเฆฟเงŽ เฆฐเฆพเฆฏเฆผ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India
1921 โ€“ 1992 (70 years old)

Indian polymath filmmaker whose Apu Trilogy introduced Indian cinema to the international canon, celebrated for humanism, lyrical realism, and receiving an Honorary Academy Award in 1992.

Kolkata, India
Ali Sellali
Arts & Music
6
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Ali Sellali

ุนู„ูŠ ุณู„ุงู„ูŠ (ุนู„ุงู„ูˆ)
๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria
1902 โ€“ 1992 (89 years old)

Pioneering playwright and actor hailed as the father of modern Algerian popular comedic theater, whose 1926 production of Djeha in Algerian dialect launched national dramatic arts.

Algiers, Algeria
Fadhila Khetmi
Arts & Music
0
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Fadhila Khetmi

ูุถูŠู„ุฉ ุฎุชู…ูŠ
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia
1905 AD โ€“ 1992 (87 years old)

Historic pioneer of the performing arts who in 1928 founded the first independent female-led theater troupe in Tunisia and recorded pioneering 78rpm discs across the Mediterranean.

Tunis, Tunisia
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