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00:13 Welcome to Mediane TV.
00:15 Books to start with, and we are heading to China,
00:18 to the Shanghai Book Fair 2023.
00:21 The fair opened on August 16th and is now closing.
00:25 This annual cultural festival offers 180,000 genres of books
00:30 from more than 350 publishers and 20 publishing groups.
00:34 This book fair is also an opportunity to offer about 850 events
00:39 to promote the thematic publications of the main Chinese publishers.
00:44 Many books with exceptional design and artistic
00:47 are presented at this fair.
00:49 One of the most popular books among visitors
00:52 is the book "Reliyue" in the form of a dragon,
00:55 which is part of China's Intangible Cultural Heritage.
00:59 Thousands of visitors can also enjoy the library
01:03 set up during the fair,
01:05 a space that is transforming, according to the organizers,
01:08 into a "reader's paradise" for book lovers.
01:11 They can also watch short series, attend seminars,
01:16 and share reading and participate in exploration tasks
01:20 in the library to fully enjoy reading.
01:24 Technology is not far in this kind of event.
01:27 The book fair's various technological elements
01:30 also improve the reader's reading experience
01:33 with many high-end publications,
01:36 such as digital books, meta-verses,
01:39 and reading encyclopedias of audiovisual integration.
01:42 Modern education has become smarter.
01:45 Let's listen to these statements.
01:48 We found that our reading...
01:51 During the book fair, we not only organized
01:54 various reading activities,
01:56 but also set up many reading spaces.
02:00 And the data consultations on our platform
02:05 have reached one billion.
02:08 When I wear headphones,
02:12 I feel like I'm being transported
02:15 to the story and intrigue of the book,
02:18 which is great.
02:20 Back to Morocco to talk about music,
02:23 and especially about a virtuoso of the Qanun instrument.
02:26 This is Mohamed Amin El-Khorshi,
02:29 a native of Brussels, aged 19,
02:32 who has received the Honour Prize,
02:34 with mention at the Rabat National Conservatory.
02:37 He is the first Moroccan living abroad
02:39 to receive this distinction.
02:41 The young prodigy of the Qanun
02:43 confirmed his early talent
02:45 by winning the first prize
02:47 at the Conservatory of Fez in 2021,
02:50 under the direction of Mohamed Brioul,
02:53 and the prize for perfection
02:56 at the Rabat Conservatory in 2022.
02:59 Let's listen to this excerpt.
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04:04 A true virtuoso.
04:16 And so, from the age of 10,
04:18 Mohamed Amin follows his path
04:21 in classical training with his sisters,
04:23 who respectively play the piano and the guitar.
04:26 One of them also took up the Qanun,
04:28 which he plays with his brother.
04:30 After two years of playing the violin,
04:32 Mohamed Amin Al-Khorshi
04:33 spent five years learning the piano.
04:35 It was during this period
04:37 that he was amazed by his discovery of the Qanun.
04:39 Mohamed Amin Al-Khorshi learned to play this instrument
04:42 thanks to his great-sister's teacher,
04:44 the Iraqi musician Suhaib Najm,
04:47 who taught him private lessons for four years.
04:50 He admitted, I quote,
04:51 "He was a very good teacher for me,
04:53 who quickly pushed me to learn quickly,
04:55 to the point of having a level that I could not have acquired elsewhere
04:59 over the same period",
05:00 the young artist specifies.
05:01 After which, Mohamed Amin Al-Khorshi
05:03 follows lessons by vision-convergence
05:05 with his second teacher, Khalid Mohamed Ali,
05:08 based in Dubai.
05:09 He meets the Moroccan musician
05:11 Mohamed Briouel,
05:12 with whom he collaborates in the framework of a concert.
05:15 Let's listen to this other excerpt.
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05:39 And for two years now,
05:41 Mohamed Amin Al-Khorshi
05:42 has been writing his own compositions of Qanun.
05:45 The young prodigy has stated, I quote,
05:47 "I am advancing on my own compositions
05:50 and my goal.
05:51 I aspire to be part of a certain regularity
05:54 in relation to this."
05:55 End of quote.
05:56 The artist has already given concerts
05:58 on several stages in Belgium,
06:00 but also in the Netherlands,
06:01 where he recently performed in Amsterdam
06:03 with the soprano Sabra Al-Bahri Khatri.
06:06 At the same time, he is trying to translate
06:08 the register of the Moroccan luthier Feu Saeed Chraibi
06:11 into Qanun,
06:12 in permanent contact with the artist's entourage,
06:14 the late Mohamed Amin,
06:16 often requested by the arranger of Saeed Chraibi,
06:19 Karim Slawi.
06:20 Let's listen to this other excerpt.
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