Nabyl Lahlou, a Moroccan filmmaker and playwright, died on May 7, 2026.
He was 81. Born in 1945 in Fes, Morocco, Lahlou was also a theater director, author and actor.
He studied theater in Paris at the Académie du Théâtre de la Rue Blanche and L’Ecole Charles Dullin, and later taught at Kordj-el-Kifane in Algeria. He directed his first play, Al-Sa”aa, in Morocco in 1965, later wrote plays in French and Arabic, and was regarded as one of the most influential Moroccan theater directors of the 1980s.
Nabyl Lahlou, 81, Moroccan filmmaker and playwright.