Amale Temmar

Biography: Amal Temmar was born in Salé where she studied until she had her baccalaureate, and then joined the university, opting for English literature. After that, she passed with distinction the tourist guide examination, on late Hassan II’s recommendation, and, therefore, she has become one of the first women to join this field. She has even become an ambassador of her country in her country. She started her artistic career in her hometown, namely at “the Club of Popular Childhood” where her acting skills were very well honed. This also paved the way for her appearance on television at the age of ten at the « kids club » with her own group that bore her name: Amal Group. Some years later, she joined the Amateurs’ Theater which introduced her into the field of art, as she won several awards with Abdelmajid Fennich’s Group before joining the National Theatre Group at the age of eighteen with whom she took part in several plays and tours inside and outside Morocco. She is doing the same thing now with the Arts Theater. Now regarding her works in television, Amal Temmar has to her credit about 100 TV series and movies. For instance, the movie entitled “Returnees,” which was shot in Salé and in which she took a starring role, won the Moroccan Community Abroad Award. Moreover, she participated in several national and international films, including “The Monster’s Dance,” which she wrote, and the US series “Torah.” Amal has joined the association « Do not touch my child, » which fights against the rape of children, and has used art in her associative work in the sense that she wrote several plays to raise people’s awareness of certain social phenomena, and also wrote a song entitled « We Want Life » which has been sung by many singers and translated into English, French, Turkish and Spanish. Amal Temmar received several honors at national and international festivals and she was also a member of the jury in many of those festivals. She won the Best Actress Award for “Agadir Bombay” at the National Film Festival in Tangier and for “Aida” at the Dakhla Film Festival.