Mohammed Dahiri becomes first Moroccan to join Spain’s Royal Academy of Cordoba

Moroccan researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid Mohammed Dahiri has been named member of Spain’s Royal Academy of Cordoba. Dahiri’s appointment took place during a solemn public session, becoming the first Moroccan and Arab academic to obtain such position, Spanish media wrote on Tuesday.

The ceremony was presided by José Gusano Mayor, president of the Royal Academy of Córdoba, and attended by the body’s Governing Board, members of the academy, and representatives of the central, regional, provincial and local governments, as well as representatives of the University of Córdoba and scientific and research institutions.

Mohammed Dahiri has a doctorate in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Seville. He served as a professor at the University of Córdoba from 1999 to 2005, at the University of Cádiz from 2012 to 2014 and since 2014, he has been a professor at the Department of General Linguistics, Arabic, Hebrew and East Asian Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). 

For the record, the Royal Academy of Córdoba of Sciences, Fine Letters and Noble Arts was created on November 11, 1810 and has been under the patronage of the Spanish Crown since 1915.