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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…

Rachel Bendayan has been appointed to the government of Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, three months after being named in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet as the first minister of Moroccan descent in the federal government of Canada. Ms Bendayan’s task will be to manage the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship portfolio in the new 24-member government. She served as the Minister of Official Languages in the last administration. Rachel Bendayan is a law graduate from McGill University, she began her career in 2007 as a lawyer in commercial litigation and international arbitration. In 2019, she was elected as the federal Member…

Director Simone Bitton produces documentaries on history, current affairs and cultures of Morocco and the Middle East, with a special emphasis on Moroccan Jewish history. Her latest documentary, a very personal one, is dedicated to a leading figure in Moroccan Judaism: the late Edmond Amran el Maleh. Here she talks about her documentary “Les 1001 jours du Haj Edmond”  and shares her memories with the leading  Author, activist and journalist.

The Musée du Centre Pompidou is hosting the “Paris Noir” exhibition, from 19 March to 30 June 2025, dedicated to 150 artists from African and Afro-American descent who lived in Paris and contributed with their works to the city from 1940 to 2000. “Paris Noir” traces the journeys of African, Afro-American and Caribbean artists who “immersed themselves in Paris ‘worlds”: a space of artistic resistance and creativity which helped create an awareness of identity. As well as a search for various visual languages. “From Universal to Afro-Atlantic abstraction, surrealism and free form, the historical journey unfolds the significance of artists…

Mr Driss Yazami, the president of the Council of the Moroccan Community abroad (CCME), hosted on Thursday 13 March 2025, a delegation from the State Committee for Cooperation with the Azerbaijani Community, which is on a working visit to Morocco. The CCME president gave a comprehensive definition of the Council’s work as a consultative institution mandated with analysing public policies relating to Moroccans abroad, making recommendations and studying Moroccan communities’ situations and their contribution to development.He stressed that the Council attaches particular importance to strengthening cultural ties with the Moroccan community abroad, which has undergone fundamental transformations such as globalisation,…

After spending 48 years living in France, Si Mohamed El Chadli expresses his passion for his homeland, Morocco, through a photographic exhibition titled ‘Morocco Dialli’, covering the 20-year development of cities in Northern Morocco. The exhibition is set to tour the northern towns of the country throughout the current year. The exhibition will be the first part of a wider project aimed at organising photographic exhibitions for other regions of the country. Mohamed El Chadli is a retired university professor, community activist and author, who speaks out for humanitarian causes through his photographic lens.

The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) applauds the call for projects launched by the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication for publishing and books, giving special consideration to the translation of literary works by Moroccans living abroad. The Ministry of Culture released the broad outlines of its programme to support Morocco’s publishing and book sector on Tuesday 11 March 2025. This includes promoting the publishing of Moroccan authors’ bestsellers in paperback and the translation of the works of Moroccans living abroad, in recognition of their “ contribution to the strengthening of intercultural dialogue through their literary works ”.…

Rabat; The Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communications – Department of Culture – announced the call for applications to support publishing and book projects for the year 2025. This year’s support programme, which will be open from 11 March to 4 April, will place particular focus on projects involving the translation of Moroccans from abroad, in recognition of their contribution to promoting cultural diplomacy and the culture of their country of origin, as well as their precious contribution to enhancing intercultural dialogue through their literary work in various cultural fields, the ministry announced in a press release. Applications will also…