سمير السالمي فنان و شاعر البيئة و البحر

Samir Salmi is an artist, writer, and researcher from Morocco who specializes in poetry and modern art. He has exhibited his work both at home and abroad. His PhD thesis “Discourse and Semantics in the Poetry and Art of Gibran Khalil Gibran” was supervised by Mohammed Bennis. Among his publications are the short story collection  Al-Awda ila Hudniha al-Dafi  (Returning to her Warm Embrace) and  Shi‘riyat Jubran al-Mustamirr bayn al-Shi‘ri wal-Fanni  (The Poetics of Gibran: Continuity between Poetry and Art, Les Edition Toubkal, Morocco) as well as creative and critical pieces in Arab and international newspapers and magazines. In 2019 he has produced a number of installations and large-scale artistic performances, most recently the temporary installation in the Moroccan south (in 2019): The Sea in Painting: 15 Days Facing the Ocean. In 2006 he won the prize of the World Art and Environment Symposium in Osaka, Japan for his eco-installation Hydro Dimensions, and was awarded the