Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun was born in 1961 in Abéché. Wounded by a stray bullet during the civil war, he went to Cameroon with his family, then to France. He studied cinema at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français in Paris, and journalism in Bordeaux, and worked for several years for regional daily newspapers. His 2010 feature film received the Jury Prize at Cannes. He was Chad's Minister of Culture and Tourism from February 2017 to February 2018, and published a first novel in 2017.

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• CinemaSotigui Kouyaté: A Modern GriotSotigui Kouyaté, un griot moderneMahamat-Saleh Haroun · 1996Cinema