The Euro-Arab and Doctor Leila Mezian Foundations have signed an agreement regarding the establishment of Doctor Leila Mezian Library. This multilingual institution will be hosting material specialized in cultures and societies related to North Africa and Middle East Regions (MENA Region), with a special attention to Amazigh culture.
-- A moment while signing the agreement between Inmaculada Marrero Rocha and Leila Mezian Benjelloun, representatives of the Euro-Arab and Doctor Leila Mezian Foundations.
The main mission of Doctor Leila Mezian Library, which will be located at the Euro-Arab Foundation's headquarters in Granada, will be disseminating knowledge of cultures from the MENA Region through making scientific documents available to the public, promoting research, as well as organizing scientific and academic meetings that encourage debates and dissemination of results of elaborated research.
The library is intended for both university and scientific communities (students, teachers and researchers), as well as professionals in international cooperation and communication and press fields. In general, it is aimed at a kind of public interested in MENA Region and Amazigh culture.
International Chair of Amazigh Culture
The agreement signed yesterday at Doctor Leila Mezian Foundation's headquarters in Casablanca (Morocco) takes place within the framework of the International Chair of Amazigh Culture.
This Chair, created in December, 2014 by both the Euro-Arab and Doctor Leila Mezian Foundations, serves as an instrument of cultural diplomacy, not a governmental one, for the promotion of all aspects of Amazigh culture in Europe and North Africa, encouraging Euro-Amazigh cooperation, as well as development, promotion and research in that culture.
The creation of that Chair is considered an important step towards the promotion of Amazigh culture, the construction of a sustainable Euro-Amazigh partnership and the creation of networks of world-renowned experts and researches from different universities and countries.
This can be witnessed through the activities that took place during 2015 within the framework of that Chair and varied between international forums of experts, exhibitions, workshops, concerts and cinema seasons, to which is added now the establishment of Doctor Leila Mezian Library.
--- Members of the teams of both institutions meeting in Casablanca. From the Euro-Arab Foundation, Inmaculada Marrero Rocha and Hassan Laaguir, and from the Doctor Leila Mezian Foundation, Leila Mezian Benjelloun and Abdessalam Zerouak.
Joint Commission of the Amazigh Chair
The agreement regarding the establishment of Doctor Leila Mezian Library took place within the framework of the meeting between members of the Joint Commission of the International Chair of Amazigh Culture, celebrated in Casablanca on Monday, 8 February.
During the meeting, members of the Joint Commission revised the annual report of activities that took place during 2015, and the current programming of scientific and cultural activities to be held during 2016.
Together with Dr. Inmaculada Marrero and Dr. Leila Mezian, representatives of the two Foundations, the meeting witnessed the presence of Abdessalam Zerouak and Aziz Sijilmassi Idrissi, from the Doctor Leila Mezian Foundation, and of Hassan Laaguir, from the Euro-Arab Foundation.
