Morocco’s cultural diversity & otherness values, “a success story”, a “unique model in the world” – Royal adviser

The college has a key position to play within the emergence of a era imbued with the values of cultural range and otherness that make the distinctiveness of the Moroccan civilizational mannequin, mentioned André Azoulay, Advisor to King Mohammed VI.

“In a world seeking landmarks the place otherness has develop into a supply of battle as an alternative of wealth, we will solely ponder with exaltation the emergence of a era bearing the values of peace, range and humanism that make the energy and uniqueness of Morocco in the present day,” mentioned André Azoulay who was monitoring a convention on “Variety on the coronary heart of social modernity in Morocco: challenges and guarantees for tomorrow” on the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the Mohammed V College in Rabat.

In entrance of a room filled with college students, lecturers and intellectuals, the Royal Advisor praised the deserves of the nationwide training system, wealthy in its human sources of nice high quality that domesticate in college students “this humanism that has evaporated in so many locations round us.”

“Spearhead of any society that aspires to modernity, training is erected as a nationwide precedence in our nation” which has not skimped on efforts or means to boost its degree, conscious of its main position within the consecration of the Moroccan mannequin of range which is a case research in a world affected by the resurgence of extremism and cultural archaisms, mentioned Azoulay.

“Variety isn’t a tutorial or rhetorical idea, however a actuality embodied by Morocco in the present day, which, in contrast to different nations, has been ready to withstand amnesia and display lucidity by assuming this plurality in its DNA and enshrined within the Fundamental Legislation,” mentioned Azoulay, deeming Morocco’s instance “successful story” and a “distinctive mannequin on the planet.

In opening remarks, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Jamal Eddine El Hani, dwelt on the Moroccan expertise in selling the values of range and pluralism, and highlighted the initiatives undertaken below the impetus of the King for the preservation of the Jewish-Moroccan reminiscence, together with the creation of Bayt Dakira in Essaouira, the inclusion of Jewish historical past and tradition in class curricula and the rehabilitation of a set of synagogues all through the Kingdom.

“Particular consideration have to be paid to this heritage that makes us proud and distinctive and whose contribution is plain in all areas, together with literature, artwork, crafts, gastronomy … “, he pleaded.

True to this responsibility of reminiscence to this important element of the Moroccan identification, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Rabat has printed a set of theses, translations and analysis works on Jewish historical past and tradition, and arranged a sequence of conferences and debates on this topic, mentioned El Hani.

Talking on the assembly, Ijjou Cheikh Moussa, professor of poetry and rhetoric and researcher in Jewish tradition, burdened the duty of the college and the media to advertise higher data of the historical past of Moroccan Jewry, stressing that “data is one of the best antidote towards ignorance and extremism.

Land of cultural mixing between Muslims and Jews, Arabs and Amazighs, Morocco presents to the world a novel mannequin of range administration, which might profit from being instilled in future generations, she burdened.

This convention, which was attended by personalities from the political, diplomatic and cultural world, along with an viewers of scholars and teachers-researchers, is organized as a part of the cycle of conferences “The talks of Thursday” hosted by the Faculty since 2019.