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The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) held a conference on Wednesday, April 23, 2025, at the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, on the theme “education, teaching, research, and skills mobility.” The panel included Jamal Bouoiyour, a professor at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Mohammed Benlahssen, a quantum physics professor and former president of the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Rachid Guerjouma, an acoustics professor and former president of the University of Le Mans, and Abdelmounim Belalia, a strategy professor and General Director of Mundiapolis University. The debate was moderated by Mohamed…

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) held a conference on Wednesday, 23 April 2025, at the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat. It focused on “education, teaching, research, and skills mobility”. The debate featured Jamal Bouoiyour, a professor at the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), Mohammed Benlahssen, a quantum physics professor and former President of the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Rachid Guerjouma, a professor of acoustics and former President of the University of Le Mans, and Abdelmounim Belalia, a strategy professor and Director General of Mundiapolis University. The debate was moderated by…

In an interview by Radio 2 M on April 21 2025, the President of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Driss El Yazami, said that the Council’s programme for the 30th edition of the International Publishing and Book Fair in Rabat, organised between 18 and 28 April, reflects the changes experienced by the Moroccans abroad, focusing on the cultural factor in order to further consolidate the relations between Moroccans and their country of origin. In order to achieve this, he said that the “preparation” of the CCME preparation for the fair started a year ago in cooperation with…

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad organised, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, a roundtable at the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, paying tribute to the late writer Driss Chraïbi. The event marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of “Les Boucs” in Paris, which was the first Moroccan novel on immigration (1955),. The roundtable was led by two French-Moroccan writers, Zineb Mekouar and Mustapha Kebir Ammi. The event was moderated by academic Kacem Basfao. “Les Boucs”, title that refers to a racist French term for Arabs in Paris, explores the condition of North African immigrants in France,…

The shared stand of the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication and the Council for the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) at the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, invited Myriem Sebti, editor-in-chief of Diptyk magazine, on Monday 21 April 2025. Ms Sebti introduced the special edition dedicated to Moroccan artists living abroad in partnership with the CCME. The event was moderated by journalist Amine Boushaba. On behalf of the Council of the (CCME), Diptyk magazine has published a special issue, dedicated to artists from the Moroccan diaspora for SIEL 2025. This issue highlights Moroccan artists living abroad, exploring…

On Monday, April 21, 2025, Moroccan, American, French, and Belgian academics and researchers participated in a seminar on “Dynamics of Migration Research: Towards a National Moroccan Agenda?” organized by the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) in partnership with the International University of Rabat (UIR), as part of the 30th edition of the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat. Moderated by Farid Lasri, Dean of the College of Social Sciences at UIR, the seminar featured contributions from Aomar Boum, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Nouria Ouali, a researcher at the Free University…

On the sidelines of the programming of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad at the 30th edition of the International Book and Publishing Fair, the Cafe du Lassen in Rabat, in partnership with the French Institute of Morocco and the Hiba Foundation, organised, April 20, 2025, a meeting on the cultural and humanitarian legacy of the Moroccan writer, visual artist and activist Edmond Amran El Maleh. Addressing the event, documentary filmmaker and authr Simone Bitton described Edmond Amran El Maleh as great writer and a “role model” who taught her to strike a balance between the political and the…

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) paid tribute on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, to Abdellah Bounfour, a university professor and specialist in Amazigh studies. Participated to this highly anticipated tribute: Mohamed Sghir Janjar, anthropologist, Hassan Wahbi, poet and writer, Fouad Bellamine, visual artist, Abdelghani Abou Al Aazm, lexicographer, Khadija Mouhsine, academic, Salem Chaker, emeritus professor and specialist in Berber linguistics, participated in this tribute, moderated by Najib Abdallah Refaïf, journalist and writer.Abdellah Bounfour is a Moroccan linguist and philologist born in 1946, specializing in Berber languages, literature, and culture.…

Published on the occasion of the 30th International Book and Publishing Fair in Rabat, as part of the publications of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the book “The Voice of Arroubiya: Music, Poetry, and the Sense of Masculinity among Moroccan Migrants in Umbria, Italy”, was released by Dar Al-Thaqafa for Publishing and Distribution. The book is an Arabic translation by Nour Eddine Zwaitni of a work by Italian anthropologist Alessandra Ciucci, originally published in English in 2022 by the University of Chicago. In his introduction, Hassan Rachik writes : “When reading the works of foreign anthropologists, my…

“Languages and Migration, Teach Me Darija” was organized on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the shared stand of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication and the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME). Chadia Benabdeljalil (Canada) and Ghita Sennouni (Morocco), co-authors of the “Hello Darija” collection, and Faten Wehbe (Belgium), author of “Retour aux Sources”, a compilation of Moroccan proverbs, led this discussion moderated by Aziz Rifki, from the CCME. The three panelists, who have lived in Belgium and Canada, where the migratory experience is different, expressed a shared need: to pass their culture and language of origin to…