Musicians, actors and artists
Ibrahim Mursal Warsame
Ibrahim Mursal Warsame (born 1990) is a Norwegian film director of Sudanese and Somali origins. Born in Somalia, he grew up in Sudan after his family fled the civil war, then settled in Norway. He is known for The Art of Sin, a documentary about the Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar.
Ibrahim Mursal WarsameIbrahim Mursal
- Lived
- 1990 to today
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
Who is he?
Ibrahim Mursal Warsame is a Norwegian film director of Sudanese and Somali origins (Wikipedia, Ibrahim Mursal). He was born in Somalia in 1990, and his family fled during the civil war (same source).
Sudan
In Sudan he earned a bachelor's degree in oil and gas exploration from the Sudan University of Science and Technology in 2012 (Wikipedia). A film and photography workshop at the Goethe-Institut Sudan that year led him into filmmaking, and his first short, 50 Piasters, was shown at the first Sudan Independent Film Festival (same source). He was on the organising team of TEDxKhartoum, which Sudan's intelligence service shut down in May 2013 (same source).
Norway
After twelve years in Sudan he settled in Norway, where he runs Warsame Movies (Wikipedia). He wrote and directed The Art of Sin, a documentary about the Sudanese artist Ahmed Umar (same source). See Somalis in Norway.
In short
A Somali-born filmmaker shaped by twelve years in Sudan, now working in Norway.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Ibrahim Mursal · en.wikipedia.org
Ibrahim Mursal WarsameIbrahim Mursal
- Lived
- 1990 to today
- Known as one of
- Musicians, actors and artists
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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