Mr Driss El Yazami, President of the council of the Moroccan community abroad

Driss El Yazami was born in 1952 in Fez.
Graduate of the training and development of journalists' center in Paris, Driss El Yazami is a member of the Advisory Council for Human Rights and former member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, he is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation three cultures. Further, he's a delegate of "Generics", an association specializing in the history of foreigners and immigration in France, and he's the editor of the magazine "Migrance". He also served as the Former Vice-President of the French League for Human Rights (LDH), and former member of the Executive Committee of the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights. Driss El Yazami is currently the Secretary General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), President of the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the defenders of human rights and a member of the Board of Directors and the Advisory Board of the national Centre for the history of immigration in France.

Mr. El Yazami was also co-director of the film "France, land of Islam?" (OROLEIS, Paris, 1984) and the general curator of several exhibitions:
- "France strangers, France Liberties" (Marseille, Paris, Orléans, Strasbourg / 1989-1992);
- "In the mirror of the other, immigration in France and Germany" (Frankfurt, May 1993);
- "Generations, a century of history of North Africans in France" (Lyon, June 2009).
He took part in the drafting and coordination of several collective works:
- "For Human Rights" (Bilingual French-English - Syros-Artis, Paris, 1989);
- "Foreigners in France, guide to public and private sources(nineteenth-twentieth centuries), 4 volumes archives;
- "The Arab Paris" - (Discovery - 2003).

Driss El Yazami is the co-author (with Rémy Schwartz) of a report for the establishment of a national center for the history and culture of immigration, submitted in November 2001 to Lionel Jospin. He has also written several articles published in the French press (No borders, Baraka, Turmoil, Point, Libération, Differences, Project Migration society, the Journal magazines, Men and Migration Seen from left, Rights and freedoms, Studies, Migrance).

Mr. Abdellah Boussouf, Secretary General of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad

Born March 15, 1952 in Nador.

Abdellah Boussouf was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI Secretary General of the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) on Friday December 21, 2007, serving until today.

Initially a historian, he received a Phd in 1991 on the subject of relationships in the Mediterranean in the thirteenth century.

In 1993, he served as the president of the Association of Strasbourg Mosque. He was responsible for the construction of the Great Mosque of Strasbourg, which is considered the first installation dedicated to the Muslim faith in Strasbourg.

In 2002 he was elected Vice-President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM).

In 2006, he moved to Belgium to work at the Brussels Institute of Islamic Studies. He also served as the director of the Euro-Islamic center for Culture and Dialogue, based in Charleroi (Belgium).

Mr. Boussouf advocates a moderate Islam and open dialogue among religions and civilizations. In his many national and international interventions, Boussouf’s words invite to the discovery of the other and emphasize the importance of the cultural approximation.

Working group: "Culture, Education and identities"

Members

• Younes Ajarrai: President
• Mr. Hamed El Oufrassi, Rapporteur
• Najat AZMY
• Rachid BENZINE
• Paul DAHAN
• Mly Mehdi El Idrissi ZINI
• Omar EL Mourabet
• Raphy MARCIANO
• Observers
• Aziz nahya, Ministry of National Education, Higher Education, Staff Training and Scientific Research
• Mr. Hamou BENASSER, IRCAM
• Khadija EL GOUR, Ministry of Culture
• Brahim ABBAR, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans living abroad
• Brahim Ounir, Ministry of the Moroccan community residing abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Working Group: "Citizenship and Political Participation"

Members

• Abdou Menebhi, Rapporteur
• Driss Ajbali
• Amina Benlarbi
• Hamid Bichri
• Sidi Mohamed Farssi
• Mohamed Moussaoui
• Kamal RAHMOUNI
• Observers
• Mr. Jamal EL KAMIL, Ministry of Interior
• Mr. M'barek Bouderka, CCHR
• Mr. Abdelhadi ATTOBI, Diwan Al Madhalim
• Mr. Lahoussine AKJARAÏ, Ministry of the Moroccan community residing abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Fouad BENMAKHLOUF, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans living abroad
• Working group: "Administration, public rights of users and policies"

Members

• Abdelhamid El Jamri: President
• Mohamed Anwar Haidour: Rapporteur
• Mokhtar FERDAOUSSI
• Nadia Serhani
• Observers
• Abid youbi, Ministry of Justice
• Aziz Jillali SGHIR, Ministry of Interior
• Ahmed EL KHDAR, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
• Mr. Jawad El Himdi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
• Mr. Mohammed BAALLAL, Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, Department of Employment
• Mr. Mohammed SALHI, Ministry of Employment and Vocational Training, Department of Vocational Training
• Mohamed El Azami, Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity
• Fouad BENMAKHLOUF, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans living abroad
• Ms. Bouchra EDDAOUIBI, Minister in Charge of Moroccans residing abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Mr. Abdelouahab ABOUSSOF, Ministry of Economy and Finance Directorate of Customs
• Mr. Abdelmjid MOURHIR, Ministry of Economy and Finance Directorate of Customs
• Working group: "Scientific, technical and economic skills for inclusive development"

Members

• Faouzi LAKHDAR GHAZAL: President
• Daniel AMAR: Rapporteur
• Najib BENCHERIF
• Adil JAZOULI
• Abdelghani DADES
• Observers
• Khalid EL Hammoumi, Ministry of Social Development, Family and Solidarity
• Mr. Mohammed El Azami, Mohamed V Foundation for Solidarity
• Mrs. Ghita Zouggari, Ministry of the Moroccan community abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Mr. Hamou BENASSER, IRCAM
• Fouad BENMAKHLOUF, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans
• Mr. Moha Hamaoui, Ministry of Equipment and Transport
• Mohamed AKALLAL, Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishing
• Ms. Hassania Arsalan, Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishing
• Omar ATTOU EL YOUSSOUFI, Ministry of Higher Education
• Working Group: "Worship and Religious Education"

Members

• REDOUANE Abdallah, President
• Mohamed Kharchich, Rapporteur
• Ahmed Ayaou
• Ahmed EL HAMSS
• El El Khemmar BAKALI
• Observers
• Brahim ABBAR, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans residing abroad
• Mr. Hamou BENASSER, IRCAM
• Dr Touriya LIHIA, Higher Council of Ulemas
• Brahim Ounir, Ministry of the Moroccan community residing abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Working Group :"Gender Approach and New Generations"

Members:

• Amina Ennceiri, President
• Mina RHOUCH, Rapporteur
• Najat BELKACEM
• Nadia Bouras
• Souad talsi
• Observers
• Ali Sadik, Ministry of Interior
• Ms. Houria ZAIDI, Ministry of Youth and Sports
• Mr. Rabii LEOUIFOUDI, Ministry of Social Development, Family and Solidarity
• Dr Touriya LIHIA, Higher Council of Ulemas
• Fatima Muhajir, Ministry of the Moroccan community residing abroad
• Asma CHRAIBI, Ministry of the Moroccan community residing abroad
• Mohamed RIFKI, Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs
• Fouad BENMAKHLOUF, Hassan II Foundation for Moroccans living abroad

Morocco, faithful to a long-standing tradition of moderation and religious tolerance, is a country where coexistence of religions is a reality, writes the Vatican daily Osservatore Romano.

(Reuters) - Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has been summoned for questioning by prosecutors over anti-Moroccan remarks he made at campaign rallies in the Netherlands earlier this year, prosecutors said on Thursday.

Souad Elmallem is one of those women who succeeded in what was once a field strictly reserved for men: aeronautics. Chief Representative of Bombardier Aerospace and of Strategy and International Business Development, Africa, Originally from Casablanca, Souad Elmallem has moved to Canada where she settled and started a family.

African immigrants living in Morocco should be real citizens, said Friday in Rabat Driss El Yazami, president of the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH).

In five years of existence, the CCME focused its research work on six specific groups, published more than 70 scientific productions closely related to the Moroccan emigration and its evolution since the 60s '. Mr Abdallah Boussouf, the General Secretary of the Council of Moroccans living abroad believes that the assessment of these “five years is positive "; because the council managed, since its inception, to put the finger on where the other European migratory policies have failed.

Welcome and farewell: It’s under this title of Goethe’s poem that we wanted to share the contributions to the conference “Migration, Identity and Modernity in the Maghreb”, held in Essaouira from March 17 to 20, 2010.

This conference is an initiative made by French and Moroccan academics, joined by colleagues from around the world in a common commitment to a pluralist reading of the recent history of Morocco and the Maghreb. Hosted in Essaouira and supported by two authorities responsible for human rights and the implementation of the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission, the conference attempted to address, publicly, for the first time in the Maghreb, the question of the departure of Jews, repositioned in its historical depth and put into perspective with the migration of Muslim communities. Without dodging the specific dimensions nor the politics of these departures, the conference was an opportunity to reassess the whole process by questioning migration projects, Migrants' journeys and the dynamics of community constructions.

The memory of these migrant communities is also, undeniably that of the Maghreb, at various times in its history.

This conference resulted also in the publication of two other volumes on top of this one

The film industry in Morocco has, thus far, generated $100 million this year, four times more than the first nine months of 2013.

RABAT, Morocco –  Morocco's government has presented a new law criminalizing training with extremists with the intent to commit terrorist acts.

Dozens of Moroccan nationals, irregular residents in Algeria, have been temporarily denied access to national soil, said Thursday the ministry of the Interior.

 Mina El Elkarzabi, president of the Association of Moroccan Women in Ivory Coast, spoke about the challenges facing Morocco in Africa. She most particularly pinpointed specialized networks in prostitution that recruit young Moroccan women.

Mr Rezrazi El Mostafa is seemingly a calm person. Although his resume is out of the ordinary, he has this modesty and restraint inherent to Japanese culture that has managed to combine high-tech and tradition. That of samurais and many Nobel Prize winners. The one that has allowed the country to recover from the first and only nuclear attack in history, in Hiroshima-Nagasaki.

Boutaina El Fekkak was born in Rabat. She studied at the French high school Descartes in the capital where she earned a BA in Mathematical Sciences (Bac S).

The model of Islam in Europe raises in the current context, a crucial debate. This cult is gradually becoming a component of the European countries, marked by a cultural secularism and the emergence of new generations of Muslims.

Communities of believers, both public and private players in Europe, and the public opinion are questioning the terms and conditions of living together.

Bringing together a panel of scholars, cultural practitioners and religious leaders, this publication presents the work of the second conference on Islam in Europe, organized by the Council for the Moroccan community abroad and is an important contribution to a never-ending debate.

The process of integrating Islam in European countries, marked with a "cultural secularism" and the emergence of new generations of European Muslims, brings back the debate on the legal status of Islam in Europe. This publication is the result of discussions by researchers, policy makers and experts in topics related to immigration and Muslim leaders in Europe, as well as cultural and religious actors gathered at an international conference organized by the Council for the Moroccan community abroad in Fez in March 2009.

"In ten or twenty years, your Royal Highness can be certain that Morocco will occupy a crucial place in the world of painting" André Malraux to Princess Lalla Malika (Paris ,June 1963).                                                                                          The deep commitment of Andre Elbaz for Morocco, his sense of humor in recounting some of the experiences he went through, his love for the local language, his interest in the youth of his country, his faith in its future, his generosity (he spontaneously offered in 2007 to the future National Museum of Contemporary Art in Rabat a donation of 15 major works), his happiness to return to his country to show the product of a significant part of half a century of struggle turn this retrospective and this book,  into one of the key moments of the year 2010 "Driss El Yazami, President of the National Council for Human Rights.