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The president of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Driss El Yazami, has emphasised the “significant” literary contribution of Moroccans worldwide to the international cultural landscape. In an interview with the Moroccan Press Agency (MAP) during the Paris Book Festival 2025, which showcases Morocco, Mr El Yazami said the Moroccan participation “represents renewed recognition of the Kingdom’s cultural contribution,” recalling that Morocco had previously been highlighted at an earlier Paris Book Fair. “Morocco is the only French-speaking country to have had four authors awarded the Prix Goncourt in the space of some thirty years. This illustrates the richness…

Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, inaugurated on Thursday 10 April the Moroccan Pavilion, guest of honor at the Paris Book Festival 2025, which runs until April 13 at the Grand Palais in Paris. The inauguration of the national pavilion took place in the presence of the French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, the President of the Île-de-France Region, Valérie Pécresse, as well as other Moroccan and French dignitaries, including Advisor to His Majesty the King, André Azoulay, the Moroccan Ambassador to France, Samira Sitail, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Ambassador Samir Addahre, and the Chairman…

The Belgian association “Play4Peace” held its first forum in Morocco on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at the Hiba Foundation in Rabat, under the theme “Sport and Culture as Levers for Personal and Professional Development of Youth.” The event was organized in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the Belgian Embassy in Morocco, the Hiba Foundation, and the Moroccan National Olympic Committee (CNOM). Representing the CCME, Ms. Ghislaine El Abid, highlighted the significance of this initiative, particularly through the impact of athletes of Moroccan origin on the ties between their host countries and their country of origin.…

“Exile is not our kingdom: reflections on diasporic literature” is the theme of an international symposium that opened on Wednesday in Rabat, bringing together a distinguished group of academics and intellectuals from Morocco and beyond. Organized by the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco, the symposium aims to provide a space to explore the connections between exile, culture, and literature on a global scale, to highlight the latest developments in diaspora literature and its multifaceted effects on culture, identity and language. And to identify the challenges tied to migration. On this occasion, the Secretary of the Academy of the Kingdom…

An international conference celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of relations between Morocco and Senegal opened its doors April 7, 2025 in Rabat. The meeting hosted political, diplomatic, economic, and academic figures. Held under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI and the Senegalese President, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is an initiative of (the Timbuktu Institute – African Center for Peace Studies), in partnership with the International University of Rabat and the Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion. In her opening statement, Ms. Amal Seghrouchni, Minister Delegate in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, highlighted the historical…

Rabat: Bab Rouah pavilion hosted April 7, 2025 apress conference for the 30th session of the International Publishing and Book Fair which will take place in Rabat from April 17 to 27 under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.  Mr.Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, the Minister of Youth, Culture, and Communication, welcomined the Emirate of Sharjah as the guest of honor and the celebration of Moroccans living abroad, in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), saying it is ” an opportunity for exchange regarding culture and the book industry. It also explores the creativity of…

 Zineb Hattab , a Moroccan born swiss chef has been awarded Switzerland’s first Michelin star for her 100% vegan restaurant, KLE, in Zurich. The young prize winning chef of the Swiss Culinary Merit, is setting new standards in the culinary world: she embodies a new generation of chefs where flavour meets ethics. The moroccan-born Zineb Hattab grew up on the Costa Brava, in Spain, where her parents had settled. She originally began her career in computer engineering, but it was her passion for fine food that changed her course. Trained by renowned chefs such as Andreas Caminada in Switzerland and…

The Belgian centre ‘Play4Peace’ is organising its first forum in Morocco on 9 April 2025 at the Hiba Foundation in Rabat, to celebrate the International Day for Sport for Development and Peace, which is held each year to promote and celebrate the benefits of sport as a catalyst for intercultural dialogue and social cohesion. The forum’s theme is ‘Sport and culture as a lever for the personal and professional Development of youth’. Organised in partnership with the Council for the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), the event includes two scientific seminars the first being entitled ‘Investing in culture and sport today…

With Mustapha el Miri, sociologist (France) This week, we look at the issue of unaccompanied Moroccan minors. From January to August 2024, 42% of the Moroccans who entered Spain, were minors. Who are these minors, what is their background? Which routes do they take into Europe and which policies are put in place to assist them? Mustapha El Miri, a sociologist at the University of Aix-Marseille and author of a study on this question for the CCME, gives us an overview on these issues.

Morocco will be the guest of honour at the Paris Festival du Livre (11-13 April), which has unveiled its programme of events dedicated to the Kingdom. Morocco’s pavilion will be located under the dome of the Grand Palais at the heart of Paris and represented by authors and publishers reflecting the diversity and vitality of Moroccan literature. The Moroccan pavilion has been designed as “an open invitation to travel and explore, in a reflection of Morocco as a cultural intersection of tradition and modernity”. It will be inspired by the sea, a symbol of the country’s rich heritage and of…