Interview I Interview I
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rencontres
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لقـــــاءات
Mohamed Ali Okbi is a
great figure of Tunisian
cinema, he is a director
and producer. He is the
founder of Agora cultural
center which will open
its doors in the spring of
2014 in La Marsa.
What does traveling mean to you?
Traveling is about meeting new people and
sometimes discovering lightning intelligences with
whom you share your vision regarding the human,
‘Seeing it otherwise’. To escape the daily routine of
certitude in order to plunge into a world that makes
you forget your own habits.
What is an exotic trip?
People are more captivating than the landscapes
they occupy. It is meeting other people who are
completely foreign, but at the same time very close
... I become an American in America, French in
France and Egyptian in Egypt, it is not changing
who you are but it makes you live differently, while
remaining yourself.
What do you always take in your suitcase?
Always the same shoe size, waist size and collar
size 39… And two books