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Jordi Esteva is a writer, journalist and photographer. He has travelled all over Africa, Asia and the Near East (Los Oasis de Egipto / The Oasis in Egypt, Lunwerg, 1995). He has worked as a researcher and photographer for the UNESCO in Marrakech and shot a movie for the UN about Socotra’s Island in the Indic Ocean (2006). He is the author of Fortalezas de barro en el sur de Marruecos (Adobe Fortresses in the South of Morocco, Compañía Literaria, 1996) and of Mil y una voces (A Thousand and One Voices, El País/Aguilar, 1998), a very enlightening book about the Mediterranean, Arab societies and Islam. His photography has been exhibited internationally. Esteva has also written about African animism (Viaje al País de las Almas, Pre-Textos, 1999). His latest book is Los árabes del mar (Península/Altair 2006), a long time seller.

  Febryary 2009: After two months in Ivory Coast, the filming of Return to the Land of Souls is completed (Best documentary Black International Cinema Berlin; Best documentary Bangkok Indiefest).

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