We are delighted to announce the eleven winners of the Nora programme for 2021:

Ambronay CCR (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)

Maral Bolouri (Iran) for the development of a story on integration using the symbolism of plants, symbolically linking the plants of Iran and France.

Château de Goutelas (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)

Fadi Idress (Palestine) for the film project “Le franchissement”.

Château de l'Esparrou (Occitanie)

Edmond Bolo (Cameroon) for the stories “Histoires de Lompi Lompat”.

Cité du Mot, Prieuré de la Charité-sur-Loire (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)

Quosey Al Basheer (Syria) for the scenario “2254”.

Saline Royale (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté)

Abdelnasir Abashar Mu (Sudan) for completion of the novel “Les camions”, on the Calais jungle.

Sami Daoud (Syria) for completion of the novel “Identité et Asile; Douleur et Sublimation; Nostalgie et Oubli”.

Mahtab Ghorbani (Iran) for the completion of a novel on the struggle of women imprisoned for political reasons.

Château Mercier (Switzerland)

Ali Jamshidifar (Iran)

Combined residences:

Abbaye aux Dames (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and Château de Goutelas (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes)

Mahmoud El-Haddad (Egypt) and Khaled Alwarea (Syria) for the project “self-entitlement”: a cabaret performance in 3 acts.

Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Occitanie) and Abbaye de Neimënster (Luxembourg)

Souleymane Bah (Guinea) for “Que Dieu bénisse le bâtard”: a text on albinism and the resistance of women, a trilogy on the abuse of power. 

Chartreuse de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Château Mercier (Switzerland)

Hatem Mohamad Said - Hatem HADAWI (Syria) for the theatre piece “Le Mur”.