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Jury Members - FICA 2025 -
8th EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
CARICATURE FESTIVAL IN AFRICA - FICA 2025 -
 Jury members-FICA 2025-
Betty Sellier (France) Zohoré Gbich (Ivory Coast) Ricardo Ferreira (Portugal) Amina Al Hammadi (Arab Emirates) Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan) Cheikh Tijan (Senegal) FAHD BAHADY (SYRIA) Rachid Amghouz (Morocco) Ali Attab (Iraq) Faissal Hmichane (Morocco)
 Amina Al Hammadi (United Arab Emirates) The first Emirati cartoonist and cartoonist.
She began her artistic career at Majid magazine, creating the character "Amouna Al Mazyouna." She continued her career at Al Ittihad newspaper, creating political, economic, social, and sports cartoons, expressing local, regional, and international issues with critical and artistic language.
She has represented the UAE on local and international cartoon juries and participated in art exhibitions in the UAE and abroad.
She has published artistic and intellectual works, including: Zayed Al Salam, Thought Mischief, and Untitled.
She has received several awards and honors, including the Mother of the Emirates Award, the Mohammed bin Zayed Prize (Pride Standards), the Yas Award for Excellence, and the Taryam Omran Award for Press Cartooning. She is a member of the Emirati Journalists Association, the Arab Journalists Association, International Press and the UAE Fine Arts Society.
 Betty Sellier (France)I had chosen this happiness of being a full-time caricaturist, but life decided otherwise until 2002 when I banged my fist "Now it's my turn!", so I gradually gave up my old eclectic food jobs, medical, press, hotel, notary, advertising, TV, where I was trained in micro-computing (first graphics tablets, databases, word processing, first image processing software). Born in 1958 in Nancy, family of painters, graphic designers and illustrators, at 2 years old scribbling my first animal and human caricatures, I made everyone "pose", and, in 1993 in the street, Place Stanislas in Nancy, humans as well as animals. Bravo you have read this far
 Now living in Grenoble in Isère since 2023. Family artistic training, what luck! on my father and brother's drawing tables with a choice of Rotring, Letraset, on tracing paper and Canson. Photography Club, CES Jarville Arts Club, Lycée Poincaré, Nancy Visual Arts and Fine Arts, Nancy Lorraine Artists and Women Painters, Nancy My Masters Uncle Hansi, Honoré Daumier, Norman Rockwell, Jacques Callot, Germaine Bouret, Coles Philips, Beatrix Potter, Maëster TV 30 Million Friends, 2008, Animal Caricature Report
Main Activities - Caricatures drawn live in front of a live model, private or public receptions. - Large number of caricatures from photos for place cards for private meals. Book Illustrations: Editions Amalthée - Les fables de l’Animalerie Syndicale, 2007, Marylène Paris, animal caricatures. Edition Gault Et Millau - Guide de Bretagne– Pays de la Loire, 2021, caricatures of the region's great historical gastronomes - Guide des Champagnes 2022, caricatures of the editorial and tasting team Gault & Millau Edition Est-Eclair and Libération Champagne - The history of ATAC and ESTAC in 35 portraits Participations 1982-1986 Salons des Artistes Lorrains and FemmesPeintres, meeting with portrait artists Scherbeck and Rob Cadoré, Nancy 1986 Biennale de l’Image, first live caricatures in front of models on Macintosh digital tablet, Nancy 1987 Illustrations of medical articles, cardiac operating techniques, CHU Nancy 1993 Place Stanislas, first live and public caricatures in the street, Nancy 1994 Caricaturist, Café de la Gare, Tahiti, French Polynesia 2000-2005 Facilitator, caricature and portrait classes, exhibitions, Club des Arts, Houdemont 2004 Creation of the contemporary exhibition, Hougnats Contemporains, Houdemont 2007 Live caricatures at congress, Lisbon, Portugal 2011 Club Med, caricature animation, Marrakech, Morocco 2019 Caricature Festival, 1001 faces, Val David, Quebec, Canada 2022-2023-2024 Caricature Festival, Paray le-Monial, France 2024 Caricature Festival, Samer, France 2025 Caricature Festival, St-Jean-de-Sixt,
 Cheikh Tijan (Senegal) Cartoonist and Painter with over 25 years of experience in press cartooning and school textbook illustration. Skills in film and advertising.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996 Cartoonist for the newspaper ACTION PAYSANNE
1998 Animator at Studio PICTOON
2000 Cartoonist for PRESSE DES ALMADIES
2003 Cartoonist for the newspaper L'Observateur
2004 Cartoonist for the newspaper Le Quotidien
2009 to the present day Cartoonist for the newspaper Le Soleil
ACHIEVEMENTS
Marie and Madi school textbook collection
KOTTI KOTTI school textbook collection
Illustrations of dozens of children's albums for the publishing houses KALAAMA, KOTTI KOTTI, NEAS,
 FAHD BAHADY (SYRIA) I am Fahd Al-Bahady, a Syrian lawyer and cartoonist born in 1983. I began my artistic career in 2005 and have collaborated with various Arab and international newspapers and websites, including Al Jazeera Net, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Al-Sharq Qatar, and Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
I am currently a member of the international organization "Cartooning for Peace" and the global platform "Cartoon Movement." For 13 years, I published my works under the pseudonym "Ahmad Rahma" following my arrest by the Syrian regime at the beginning of the revolution. Throughout my artistic career, I have received several awards, including First Prize in the FECO African Illustration Competition, held in Morocco in 2025, and the Special Prize in the same competition in 2024. One of my works was also selected among the best works in the European Illustration Competition in 2023, and I was nominated for the Mahmoud Kahil Prize that same year.
My works have been published on the front page of Le Monde in France and have been featured on various platforms and newspapers dedicated to comics around the world.
 Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan) Born January 21, 1958 in Telov, a village in Beshariq District, Fergana Province, Uzbekistan.
Graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute.
Member of the Union of Artists of Uzbekistan.
Member of the Party of Good Humor, Poland.
Resides in Tashkent.
He is currently a freelance cartoonist. He exhibited his works in Kruševac, Serbia, in 2007, in Osijek, Croatia, in 2008, and in Tashkent from 2008 to 2010, in 2012, and in 2013.
From 2003 to 2012, he was a jury member of the 2nd China International Cartoon Competition and the Iran International Cartoon Festival. In 2008, he received the State Prize "Friendship."
He has participated in numerous national and international animation exhibitions and has won 160 awards.
The main awards are: Gold Prize, Nanjing, China 2002; 1st Prize, Tokyo, Japan 2004; Silver Prize, Baku, Azerbaijan 2005; Bronze Prize, Damascus, Syria 2005; Golden Pencil Prize, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 2006; Golden Helmet Prize, Krusevac, Serbia 2006; 1st Prize, Piracicaba, Brazil 2006; Silver Prize, Nanjing, China 2006; 2nd Prize, Bursa, Turkey 2007; Gold Prize, Zagreb, Croatia 2007; Bronze Prize, Guangxi, China 2007. 2nd prize, “CafCaf” Istanbul, Turkey 2007; 2nd prize, São Paulo, Brazil 2007; Nigeria 2012; 1st prize, Istanbul, Turkey 2012; 3rd prize, Brezno, Slovakia 2013; 2nd prize, Tehran, Iran 2013; 1st prize, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2014; 3rd prize, Brugairolles, France 2014; 2nd prize, Brezno, Slovakia 2015;
 Rachid Amghouz (Morocco) Caricaturist Portraitist Photographer Specialist in children's drawing. And comic book illustrator, Rachid Amghouz can now boast of having a very good experience in the field of political drawing and thematic comics, with clear messages. Rachid Amghouz has already published numerous caricatures in several national and international newspapers and magazines and websites, all requiring a fair look, a good reading of society with a scalpel analysis of everything related to current events. He is also the illustrator of several comic book series for some Moroccan magazines. Currently a cartoonist for an international site specializing in political drawing and also a member of FECO Morocco and the Moroccan association of caricature MAC. He has won several national and international special awards
Ricardo Ferreira (Portugal) Portuguese caricaturist and portraitist, art teacher, director of the international school caricature festival. Specialist in drawing for children. And comic book illustrator, he has collaborated with several Portuguese newspapers. He has published numerous caricatures in several Portuguese newspapers, magazines and websites. He has also won several international awards and is a member of the juries of several world caricature competitions. Currently a member of the international organization, the global platform "Cartoon Movement".  Ali Attab (Iraq) Iraqi journalist, cartoonist, visual artist, calligrapher, designer, and writer. He has contributed to the organization of several caricature festivals in his home country, Iraq.
Cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and designer
- Originally from Baghdad, Iraq
- Editor-in-chief of the satirical newspaper Fankari, specializing in caricature
- Chairman of the organizing committee of the annual International Exhibition of Palestinian Caricature - Editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Caricature
- Executive Director of the Fantaqaum Foundation
 Zohoré Gbich (Ivory Coast) Career of an illustrator, publisher, and major figure in the Ivorian press
A versatile and recognized professional, Zohoré Lassane combines expertise in press cartoons, comics, illustration, advertising art direction, press publishing, and a strong commitment to media development in Ivory Coast.
Born March 2, 1967, in Treichville (Abidjan)
• KNIGHT OF THE ORDER OF MERIT FOR COMMUNICATION (2019)
Professional Experience
• 1985-1995: Cartoonist and Illustrator
◦ Started at the National Institute of Arts in 1985.
◦ Cartoonist for the government daily Fraternité Matin, where he hosted the column "Le Sourire du jour" (The Smile of the Day) for around ten years. • 1987-1992: Advertising Illustrator
◦ Joined Ivoire Média, one of the leading communications agencies in Côte d'Ivoire.
• 1992-1998: Art Director
◦ Joined the American agency McCann-Erickson, where he rose through the ranks to become Art Director.
• Since 1998: Entrepreneur and Press Publisher
◦ 1998: Founded Zohoré Studios.
◦ 1999: Founder of GBICH!, a successful satirical weekly.
◦ 2004: Launch of GO MAGAZINE, a women's weekly, in the midst of a military-political crisis.
◦ 2009: Launch of ALLO POLICE, a weekly dedicated to crime stories. ◦ Since 2018: Co-founder of the New Printing House of Côte d'Ivoire (NICI)
Contributions and Commitments
• Jury and Consultant
◦ Member of the jury for the Mondial de la Publicité Francophone.
◦ Consultant to UNICEF.
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 Faissal Hmichane (Morocco), President of the FICA 2025 Jury, Applied Arts Teacher, PhD Candidate in Educational Sciences at ESEFA, Researcher in Artistic Education in Morocco, NUMECOL ESEFA Laboratory, Artistic Director of FUCAP Passionate about the art of caricature and comics, including their forms and colors, Faissal Hmichane has made it his life, his commitment, and his profession. Confirmed and supported in his choice, he embarked on studies in visual arts. He thus became a visual arts teacher. Over time, he began exhibiting his paintings to the general public, starting in 2000, where he participated in workshops and group exhibitions in several Moroccan cities, as well as abroad, such as Romania. Throughout this artistic journey, he has made abstract art his preferred medium.
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