Salima S. El Mandjra

An architect by training, Salima S. El Mandjra is a writer and artist. Her publications and her participation in scientific, literary, and artistic events reflect her particular interest in the evolution of social and cultural values, as revealed through the dynamics that transform representations of heritage and landscape.
Her work was the subject of an exhibition at Le Cube in June 2021.


Interventions

Round table Repenser le vivant with Cécile Arnold, Sabah Rahmani and Sophie Swafton, as part of the programme of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication – Department of Culture, at SIEL (International Book and Publishing Fair), May 8, 2026

Crossed dialogue with Timothée de Fombelle, author of La vie entière, and Salima S. El Mandjra, author of TempOralités, moderated by Lamia Berca Barrada, as part of the programme of the Institut Français du Maroc at SIEL (International Book and Publishing Fair), Rabat, May 7, 2026

In conversation with Rim Battal about her book Je me regarderai dans les yeux, Livremoi, Rabat, May 5, 2026

In conversation with Samira El Ayachi about her book Madame Bovary, ma mère et moi, as part of the programme of the Institut Français du Maroc at SIEL (International Book and Publishing Fair), Rabat, May 1, 2026

Conversation with Bénédicte Savoy on the theme Le présent des mémoires as part of the 11th edition of the Rencontres des Rendez-vous de la philosophie, organized by the Institut Français du Maroc, Casablanca, February 10, 2026

Roundtable Écrire sous toutes ses formes with Lamia Berca Berrada and Ahmed El Fellah at the 1st Book Fair of the CNEM (Collectif de la Nouvelle Édition Marocaine) at Artorium, Casablanca, December 5, 2025

Conversation with Aicha Belarbi about her book Égalité femmes-hommes, les féministes à l’épreuve, Villa des Arts, Rabat, November 26, 2025

Facilitation of the writing workshop Les possibles de l’imagination at the Institut Français de Rabat, November 15, 2025

Conversation with Neige Sinno about her books Triste tigre andLa realidad at the Institut Français de Rabat, October 15, 2025

Roundtable La relation au vivant with Julien Bondaz, Seloua Luste Boulbina, and Sabah Rahmani as part of the Salon International du Livre d’Oujda, October 10, 2025

Conversation with the art historian Estelle Zhong Mengual about her book Apprendre à voir. Le point de vue du vivant as part of the Institut Français du Maroc program at the SIEL (Salon Internationale de l’Édition et du Livre), April 27, 2025

Roundtable Inventivité dans les pratiques éditoriales marocaines, expériences du texte et de l’image, with Kaoutar Chaqchaq and Rita Baddou, as part of the program of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication, Department of Culture, at the SIEL (Salon Internationale de l’Édition et du Livre), April 25, 2025

Event Territoires et personnages de roman, Tanger personnage de tous les possibles with Ghizlaine Chraibi (Les territoires impuissants, co-edition Maelström and Éditions Onze, 2022) and Salima S. El Mandjra (MurMurer, MEAN Éditions, 2023), as part of the Institut Français du Maroc program at the SIEL (Salon Internationale de l’Édition et du Livre), April 20, 2025

Participation in the round table discussion moderated by Lamia Berrada Berca with photographers Brahim Benkirane and Alexandre Chaplier on the photo exhibition Ralentir at the Institut Français Rabat, October 23, 2024

Conversation with Rita Baddou, Camille Castaigna, Mohamed Haïti on their comic strip Fossils and Dinosaurs of Morocco at the media library of the Institut Français de Rabat, October 18 2024

Reading of fragments of the text MurMurer by Salima S. El Mandjra, at the art event ETRE(ICI), Tangier, September 14 and 15, 2024

Participation in the podcast il était, il n’était pas, by Alizée Gau and Brice Andlauer, season 2. Passage, July 2024. Spotify: https://vu.fr/oSlEK

Speaker at the Femmes de lettres en société study day, Sciences Po Rabat, Rabat International University, March 26, 2024

Presentation of the book Rabat la ville nouvelle, Guide d’Architecture 1914-1990 by Abderrahmane Chorfi as an introduction to the author’s conference, Villa des arts Rabat, January 16, 2024, Villa des arts Casablanca, January 31, 2024

In conversation with Kaoutar ChaqChaq about the book MurMurer, Médiathèque of the Institut français de Rabat, December 16, 2023

In Conversation with Stéphanie Gaou -Les Insolites-, about the book MurMurer at the Factory by Najoua El Hitmi, Tangier, December 5, 2023

Conversation with Driss C. Jaydane, author of Moïse de Casa, and Driss Ksikes author of Textures du chaos, Le café littéraire du Pietri, Rabat, November 3, 2022

Podcast: Interview with Stéphanie Gaou, Radio Les Insolites/ Les Insolites, Tangier 28 July 2022
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Tropical Island, talk with Lisa Grobkopf and Seif Kousmate, Le Cube, Rabat July 4, 2022

Conversation with Rita Aouad and Guillaume Baduel on their book “Un parcours amoureux Rabat”, Le 17 Océan, Rabat June 3, 2022

Communication: From Sense to Sense, as part of the meeting “How to build sustainable cities” organized by the French Institute of Rabat and the Bouregreg Gardening School, Rabat, May 14, 2022

A dreamed garden, literary and botanical walk with the writer-gardener Umberto Pasti, Bouregreg Gardening School, March 30, 2022

Discussion with Rim Laâbi about the composition and the drawings of the editions Au creux du silence, Saisissements and L’espage d’un instant, Fondation Al Mada, Villa des Arts de Rabat, 1 October 2021

The writing workshop, talk, Le Cube, October 1, 2020

Member of the jury of the photographic competition Regard sur le portrait immatériel de Rabat-Salé, Association Rabat-Salé mémoire, March 2019,

HERstory, curated by Julie Crenn and Pascal Lièvre, Le Cube – independent art room, February 2018

Member of the jury of the photographic contest Lumière sur le patrimoine de Rabat-Salé, Association Rabat-Salé mémoire, April 2018

Jury member, during the 4th edition of the competition of short films Ana Maghribi (a), French Institute of Morocco, in November 2017

Participation in the project “Féminisme au quotidien” with the artist Anna Raimondo, Exhibition Nous serons sérieuses de la manière la plus heureuse, Le Cube, Rabat, 21 March 2017-20 April 2017

Les traces de l’invisible, interview with Abdessamad Montassir, Paroles d’artistes directed by Sarah Dornhof, Goethe-Institut Rabat, January 2016

L’ê/Être au sud, sound piece presented at the public listening session Saout as a state of mind # 3 curated by Saout radio with Anna Raimondo and Elisabeth Zimmerman, Le Cube, May 2016


Publications

La mémoire des présents, REGARD SUR LA MEDINA, Karine Hazera and Emmanuelle Peckre, Bouillon de Culture, June 2026. Foreword, pp. 7–9.

TempOralités, MEAN Éditions, March 2026

Miroitements, catalog text for the exhibition Analogies by Fatime Zahra Morjani at the Galerie Shart, Casablanca, from October 17 to November 23, 2024

Leçons de Ville(s), RABAT, LA VILLE NOUVELLE, Guide d’architecture 1914-1990, Abderrahmane Chorfi, Bouillon de culture, November 2023, Preface pp17-19.

MurMurer, Art Numérique Edition, November 2023

Le Bâti carcéral au Maroc, Jilali Adnani, Salima S.El Mandjra, Bouillon de Culture 2022

Les instantanés de Hiba Baddou, preface of the exhibition catalogue Osmose by HIba Baddou, 22 October 2021 to 11 November 2021, pp 13-15.

L’Espage d’un instant, Art numérique edition, June 2021

The Green and the Red, in: travelling narratives. Le Cube, 2021, pp 82-103.

The writing workshop, text publication of the talk of October 1, 2020
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Aux architectes de demain, Collector des architectes émergents #14-15, A+E, Architecture et Environnement au Maroc, Editions Archimédia, 2020, p. 30-36.

Saisissements, Art Numérique Edition, Juillet 2020

Au creux du silence, Art Numérique Edition, Juillet 2020

L’art au féminin, Artistes & Femmes Rencontres, Lamia Kadiri & Myriem Chraïbi, Art numérique Edition, Novembre 2019, p 11.

Meddeb at the confluence of knowledge, March 2019

Landscape cities: filling the gaps, February 2018

The being in itself, this plural so singular, Le Cube 2017-18, 2018, pp.14-21.

The Horizon of Smiles, Khbar Bladna Edition, 2017

In the city: from place to connections? Le tissu de nos singularités, Vivre ensemble au Maroc, under the direction of Fadma Aït Mouss and Driss Ksikes, En toutes lettres, February 2016, p.191-201.

L’espace du possible, Femmes et religions Points de vue de femmes du Maroc, designed and directed by Hakima Lebbar, Editions la croisée des chemins, and Fan Dok, November 2014, p.173-175.

Beyond appearances, the archi-artist of diversion, exhibition catalogue “compression art recup” by Azzedine Baddou, villa des arts, Casablanca, May-July 2013, p.24-25.

 

expositions & événements