Leila Ghandi’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Moroccan television personality and photographer
Is Photographer
Journalist
From Morocco
Type Arts
Journalism
Gender female
Birth

26 July 1980, Casablanca, Casablanca Prefecture, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco

Age 40 years
Star sign Leo

Leila Ghandi (Arabic: ليلى غاندي‎‎; born July 26, 1980, in Casablanca), nicknamed “The Moroccan Titouan Lamazou” or “Bent Battouta” (The daughter of Ibn Battuta), is a Moroccan photographer and journalist.

Early life

Leila was born in Casablanca in 1980. She is the daughter of Amal Alami and Ali Ghandi, former Director General of the Moroccan Association of the pharmaceutical industry died March 13, 2010.

At age of 5, she entered the Théophile Gautier-school located in the district of Maârif until 1991, the date when she joined the Lycée Lyautey. After obtaining his baccalauréat in the Lycée Lyautey of Casablanca in 1998, Leila Ghandi joined between 1998 and 2002 BEM Management School in Bordeaux and studied international business. Later, in 2004, she obtained her Master at Sciences Po in Strategic Marketing in Politics. During his studies in Sciences Po, between 2002 and 2004, she did an exchange at the University of Portsmouth and obtain a degree in European Business and Management.

Career

Chroniques de Chine

Leila Ghandi trip to China in 2003. A year later, she returns to the country to work in Franco-Chinese training center in Beijing depending on the Embassy of France in China (fr) as a responsible European project.

During his travel, she regularly sent emails to his family to tell them about his new life. Back in Morocco, the idea came to him to bring all his notes into a book. Thus it published in December 2006 Chronicles from China published by Le Fennec Editions. The preface of the book was done by Dominique Reynié, who was his professor at the Sciences Po in Paris.

To publish his work, Leila Ghandi obtained a financial grant from the Cooperation Service and Cultural Action of the Embassy of France in Morocco (fr).

In 2008, she was a member of the jury at the 12th International Film Festival Adventure and Discovery in Val-d’Isère. The same year, she won the “Trophy of Success in the Feminine” at the Luxembourg Palace, delivered by Secretary of State for Urban Policy Fadela Amara.

In 2009, she receives for his book the Literary prize from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Voyages avec Leila Ghandi

Since 2012, she animed a program with his name on 2M TV Voyages avec Leila Ghandi (Travels with Leila Ghandi) which are broadcast monthly in prime time for the documentary program Des Histoires et des Hommes (Histories and Humans).

It is a series of travel documentaries which highlight the culture and lifestyle of each country, through human stories, where she tries to dine and stay with the locals.

During his trip to Palestine in 2013, she met several personalities including Michel Warschawski, President Mahmoud Abbas she interviews for nearly an hour in his office of Mukataa in Ramallah.

With this episode, she won in the same year the prize Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award TV category, organized by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures, advancing journalists of France 2 and Arte.

In 2013, Leila Ghandi participates in the documentary of Serge Moati “Méditerranéennes – mille et un combats” [Mediterranean – thousand and one battles], broadcast on France 2 in the program Infrarouge (fr).

His episode “Leila Ghandi in Tunisia” was in competition at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in June 2013.

In January 2014, she was elected among the 50 personalities that make Morocco by the magazine Jeune Afrique.

The program Voyages avec Leila Ghandi have been shown in three seasons, and as of June 2016 18 episodes have been broadcast:

Episode Country Broadcasting date Channel
Season 1
1  Turkey March 25, 2012 2M TV
2  Brazil April 29, 2012
3 Amazon rainforest May 27, 2012
4  Senegal June 24, 2012
5  Lebanon October 28, 2012
6  South Korea November 25, 2012
7  Tanzania December 30, 2012
Season 2
8  Viet Nam January 27, 2013 2M TV
9  Tunisia February 24, 2013
10  Argentina March 26, 2013
11  Palestine April 28, 2013
12  Belgium May 26, 2013
Season 3
13  Egypt (Cairo) January 3, 2016 2M TV
14  Norway February 7, 2016
15  Spain (Madrid) March 6, 2016
16  Jordan April 3, 2016
17  Bosnia (Sarajevo) May 1, 2016
18  France (Paris) June 5, 2016

Personal life

According to Tel Quel, Leila Ghandi earn a salary around 20 000 dirhams per month (2000 $ USD).

During the French tour of jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater in 2000, Leila Ghandi accompanied him as a dancer. Percussionist, she is also a member of the Brazilian group “Batala” that occurs in many festivals and carnivals.

Between 3 and 8 May 2015, with twenty women, she participates in the “Women and Power: Leadership in a New World” program organized by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

Exhibitions

In December 2005, she exhibited some specimens around the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.

During her trip in China, she took his first series called “Timeless China : la Chine d’un autre temps” which was exhibited at the Lucernaire Gallery (fr) (Paris) in January/February 2006.

She exhibits the same series at the Art Lounge Gallery of Beirut in April 2006, under the name of “Timeless China & spiritual, portraits of Tibet”.

In January 2007, she participated with four other photographers to expostion “Regards (de) marocains sur le monde” held at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Casablanca.

In 2011, Leila Ghandi won the first place award for the European Union-African Union Professional Photography Competition “African Beauty in all its states” as a representative for North Africa. His photos have been exhibited at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Africa Hall and the French Alliance of Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 16th AU Summit (fr), held on January 30 and 31, 2011.

In March/April 2012, she exhibited her collection “Vies à vies” in the Art Gallery CDG of Rabat.

Awards

  • Trophée EuroMed de la Réussite au Féminin delivered in Luxembourg Palace by Fadela Amara (2008)
  • Literary prize of United States Agency for International Development (2009)
  • Opinion Leader by Search for Common Ground (2010)
  • Femme d’excellence by Marseille-Provence 2013 (2012)
  • Mediterranean Journalist Award by Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue Between Cultures (2013)
  • Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2014)
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