AUI Students and Faculty Represent Morocco in the First Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament

Iman Kabbaj, Hamza Essakhi, students at AUI and Wadia AitHamza, AUI alumnus will represent Morocco in the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament that will take place in Berlin from 26 May to 3 June 2007. Dr. Mohammed Ibahrine was invited to speak as an expert in this event as well.

The German Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Goethe-Institut and the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation, in cooperation with the European Commission and the Anna Lindh Foundation for the dialogue between cultures, have invited young adults to discuss current political and social issues.

At the first Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament, about 100 participants from 38 countries will meet in order to help organize the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in a qualified way in collaboration with representatives of the youth initiatives European Youth Forum, SALTO and Euromed Youth Platform. The goal is to practice parliamentary forms of discussion and to discuss future topics beyond cultural and geographic borders.

Iman Kabbaj, Hamza Essakhi, and Wadia AitHamza will participate in a preparatory conference in Alexandria. From 10 to 15 March. Young people from Egypt, Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, the Palestinian autonomous areas, Syria, Turkey and Tunisia will debate issues on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. They were selected by the Goethe-Institut in North Africa and the Middle East in collaboration with the Anna Lindh Foundation and the Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform. The European participants, who make up the other half of the delegates, were chosen and prepared by the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation and the European Youth Forum. The Euro-Mediterranean Youth Parliament continues the idea of the “European Youth Parliament” supported by the Heinz Schwarzkopf Foundation in the context of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership.

Congratulations and good luck to our students.

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