Moukhtar Kocache
Moukhtar Kocache was Program Officer at the Ford Foundation
until January 2012. Born in Lebanon and raised in France,
he lived for almost fifteen years in the USA before joining the
Foundation in 2004 and moving from New York to Cairo.
He works on the development and sustainability of arts and
cultural spaces, networks, and service infrastructure. His grantmaking supports small to mid-sized organizations and focuses on
creativity, discourse, arts education and cultural development in
Egypt, occupied Palestine and Lebanon with some programming
in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
Moukhtar also programs and manages a cluster of grants that
support alternative and emerging media platforms and media
reform agendas, as well as a cluster of grants that support the
development of local philanthropy in the MENA region. From
1998 to 2004, he was Director of Programs and Services at the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a leading arts council in the
USA where he ran residencies, public art programs, exhibitions,
festivals and support services to artists and arts organizations. He
has undergraduate and graduate degrees in political science, art
history and nonprofit management. A trained and practicing arts
manager and curator, he has lectured and taught at museums,
universities and nonprofit venues internationally. His current
interests include the sustainability of independent creative
platforms, cultural and social justice philanthropy, political
philosophy and policy, film as a medium of self-representation,
and the stuff that falls through the cracks
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