International Symposium on Jewish migration in the Maghreb, from March 17 to 20 in Essaouira

According to organizers, the symposium aims to place the particular story of Jewish migration in the Maghreb from the sixteenth century to the present in the broader context of migration that have characterized this area, knowing that the history migration of Muslim and Jewish communities in North Africa was partly written, but it has not always been properly or fully contextualized.

It will thereby raise the question of the relationship that has developed in the Maghreb, and in connection with this place between the fact of migration and the construction of national identity and community, said the organizers.

The program includes exhibitions of photographs and portraits of Moroccan Jews in Casablanca in 1960, an exhibition on the Franco-Tunisian writer Albert Memmi, honorary chairman of the symposium, and another on "a century of cultural history of North Africans in France”.

Lectures and discussions will be held on the common history of Jews and Muslims, plural migration, and the trajectories of these migrations and disruptions that have accompanied them.

The conference is organized with support from the Advisory Council on Human Rights, Council of Jewish Communities of Morocco and the Moroccan National Commission for UNESCO.