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The 2008 Prince ClausAwards CommitteePeter Geschiere (Chairman) was born in the Netherlands, studied history and anthropology inAmsterdam, and has worked in various parts of Africa. Until 2002 he was Professor of AfricanAnthropology at the University of Leiden and he is currently attached to the University ofAmsterdam as research professor. His publications include works on state formation in WestAfrica, the dynamics of local cultures in politico-economic changes, conservation and exploitationof tropical rain forests, autochthony, citizenship and exclusion. A member of the NetherlandsRoyal Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of Cameroon, board memberof the International African Institute (London) and chair of the ABV (Dutch AnthropologicalAssociation), in 2002 Geschiere was nominated Distinguished Africanist of the Year by theAfrican Studies Association (USA).Manthia Diawara is a filmmaker and author. Born in Mali, he studied comparative literature atIndiana University and is currently Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, and Directorof the Institute of African American Affairs, at New York University. Diawara’s documentaryfilms include Bamako Sigi Kan (2002), Conakry Kas (2004), Who’s Afraid of Ngugi? (2006) andMaison Tropicale (2008). He has written more than 50 articles and short stories, translated thewritings of African film makers and published books entitled African Cinema: Politics and Culture(1992), Black American Cinema: Aesthetics and Spectatorship (1993), In Search of Africa (1998) andWe Won’t Budge (2003). Diawara is founder and editor-in-chief of Black Renaissance/RenaissanceNoire, and has a forthcoming collection of analytical essays entitled Black Aesthetics.N’Goné Fall was born in Senegal and graduated from the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris,France. Editorial director of the contemporary African art magazine Revue Noire from 1994to 2001, she edited books including Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography (1998),Anthology of African Art: The Twentieth Century (2000) and Photographers from Kinshasa (2001).As an independent curator, her major projects include biennales of Dakar (1996, 2002) andBamako (2001), Africa by Africans (South Africa, Italy and USA, 1998-2000) and Contact Zone(Mali, 2007). Consultant in cultural engineering, she is the author of strategic plans and reportson cultural events for national and international institutions. Founding member of the Dakarbasedcollective Gaw, she is also a board member of ResArtis, a worldwide network of artisticresidency programmes.Elias Khoury is a Lebanese writer and public intellectual. Born in Beirut, he studied history andsociology at the Lebanese University and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He worked at the PLO ResearchCenter (1973-79) and was editor of Su’un Filastiniya (1976-79), editorial director of Al-Karmel(1981-82) and literary editor of As-Safir (1983-90). Since 1992, Khoury is the editor of Al-Mulhaq,the cultural supplement of Beirut’s newspaper An-Nahar. He has taught at universities in NewYork and Beirut. Author of plays, short stories and critical essays, his novels include The LittleMountain (1977), The Journey of Little Gandhi (1989), Yalo (2002) and Ka’anaha Nae’ma (2007).Khoury’s 1998 novel Bab Al-Shams (Gate of the Sun) was translated into Hebrew and receivedthe Palestine Prize.1382008 Prince Claus Awards