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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…

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) organised, on Saturday, April 19, 2025, at the International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL) in Rabat, a presentation of the book “Fatema Mernissi for Our Times”, compiling the works of an international group of researchers and edited by Minoo Moallem, Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.   Took part to the event: Rabéa Naciri, Moroccan feminist activist and expert on gender and women’s rights, Layla Chaouni, a Moroccan publisher and feminist, and Zakia Salime, a professor at Rutgers University in the United States.The participants, shared their relationship…

On Saturday, April 19, 2025, the joint stand of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication and the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) welcomed Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French-Moroccan writer and former minister in France, at the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL). She introduced her autobiography, “La vie a plus d’imagination que toi” answering questions from journalist Mohamed Ezzouak. Originally published in 2017 ( Grasset ed), the book was updated and recently “republished” by La Croisée des Chemins. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem recounts her personal and political journey, from her childhood in a Moroccan village, the northern neighborhoods of Amiens to…

A series of seminars titled “Al-Riwaq Al-Mushtarak”, organised by the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad and the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication, took place on Friday, April 18, 2025, as part of the 30th International Book and Publishing Fair in Rabat. The opening event was a roundtable discussion on the book “Music and Singing at the Heart of History: Jews and Muslims in the Maghreb Countries” by historian Christopher Silver.In his introductory remarks, Khaled Bensaghir, academic and translator of  the book into  Arabic ,  contextualized the author’s work within the framework of coexistence in Morocco among various ethnic groups, particularly Jews…

“Writings, context and societies” is the first conference in the CCME’s “Women’s writing in Morocco and immigration” programme at the Rabat international Bookfair. French-Moroccan novelist Samira El Ayachi, Belgian-Moroccan writer and politician Fatiha Saidi and French-Moroccan writer and poet Rim Battal answered questions from Younès Ajarrai, a cultural player and curator of several exhibitions and festivals, including the African Book Festival in Marrakech. In their presentations, the authors explained that writing is more than just a means for expressing themselves or giving their thoughts a structure; it can also be a way of healing the wounds of the past, speaking…

On Friday, April 18, 2025, the conference space at the shared booth of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication and the CCME hosted two Moroccan authors and researchers living in the United States who have relaunched the publication of the magazine “Souffles”. They had a debate with Abdellatif Laâbi, the founder of “Souffles”in 1966, writer, poet, and translator. Hicham Aïdi, is a political scientist, music critic, filmmaker, and lecturer in international relations at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Zakia Salime, has a PhD in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and associate professor…

On Friday, 18 April 2025, the presidents of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE), the Institution of the Ombudsman of the Kingdom (IRM), the High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA), the Competition Council (CC), the National Authority for Integrity, Prevention and the Fight against Corruption (INPPLC), the National Commission for the Protection of Personal Data (CNDP), and the Commission for the Right of Access to Information (CDAI) officially inaugurated their shared pavilion at the International Publishing and Book Fair (SIEL) in Rabat. In a speech delivered during the inauguration, Ms Latifa…

Rabat – His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid chaired, on Thursday in the OLM-Souissi arena in Rabat, the opening of the 30th International Book and Publishing Fair (SIEL), held on April 18-27 under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The opening of this Fair by His Royal Highness reflects the continued high regard in which His Majesty the King holds the cultural sector, as well as His unwavering commitment to fostering its various expressions, with the overarching goal of building a knowledge-based, open, prosperous, and civilized society. On this occasion, HRH Prince Moulay Rachid toured several booths,…