Professor Jamal Eddine Naji was elected on Friday, December 8, to chair the Orbicom International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications, by the 300 members of this international non-governmental organization, meeting in general assembly. This UN network was created in 1997 at the initiative of UNESCO and the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), where it sits. It has nearly 40 Chairs and over 270 Associate Members, spread across 72 countries, including academics, researchers, media
Where do Canada’s immigrants come from, is a question that has been asked last week by the Economist. Statistics dating back to 2011 suggest that Africa is at the bottom of the ranking compared to other regions in the world whose citizens immigrate to the North American country. The same thing applies to Morocco according to data provided by the Canadian government.
Soukaina Boutiyeb is a Casablanca native. When she was 14, she left the Kingdom with her family to settle down in Canada. She is currently the Executive Director of Alliance des Femmes Francophonie Canadienne, an organization that aims at protecting the contribution of Francophone women in their communities and preserving their right to live and fully flourish in French.
Former French-Moroccan kick-boxing champion Zakaria Moumni has applied for asylum in Canada, according to the Quebec news agency QMI. «My life is threatened in France, I escaped an attempt of murder with a gun and a weapon. The French government refuses to protect me,» he reported to the Quebec media TVA Nouvelles in Montreal. «My client was at the heart of a diplomatic conflict between France and Morocco. Obviously, on both sides, he is at risk,» added his lawyer,
Mathieu Bilodeau, a man 33-year-old man who lives under the supervision of the center for Rehabilitation in Intellectual Disabilities (IDRC), was accused on Friday of burning the car of Mohamed Labidi, the President of the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec (CCIQ), according to Le Soleil. The suspect lives in a supervised rooming house in the Sainte-Foy area for almost a year at the time of his arrest. A person from the residence told the same source that «when we saw him acting, we had
A study suggests that Canadians have a predominantly positive feeling about Muslims. This is reported by several Canadian media outlets such as Journal Metro and 680 News, which relayed the survey conducted by «Think for Actions and Insights Matter», a Think Tank of the University of Calgary. The study indicates that the perception of Canadians has changed when it comes to the religious leaders of Islam and their beliefs. The survey found that 78% of respondents believe that
A young Canadian couple originally from the Maghreb appeared in court on Tuesday 12th of September in Montreal, reports Le Devoir, a local online newspaper. El Mahdi Jamali and Sabrine Djermane, a young couple from Montreal, aged 20 and 21 respectively, are accused of «attempting to leave Canada to commit a terrorist act abroad, possessing an explosive device, facilitating a terrorist act and committing a terrorist act under the direction of a terrorist group». They were
Two Moroccan students named Ibtissam and Ikram Benzian, twin siters, have won two prizes for their graduation projects in electrical engineering at Polytechnique Montreal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Middle East Monitor reports. According to the same source, Ibtissam «won the first prize for two separate projects that she accomplished in electrical engineering courses» and her twin sister Ikram was «ranked third
The vehicle of the President of the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec (CCIQ), Mohamed Labidi, was set on fire during the night of August 5th to 6th, when he was parked close to his residence, reports Radio Canada. It was a little before 1.30 am on Sunday that the incident occurred. Firefighters took about 30 minutes to control the fire and the police are still looking for one or more suspects. No person related to the event has been arrested until today. «A police investigation is
Between 100 and 200 young people aged between 15 and 18 started a fight which interrupted the second day of the Moroccan festival organized in Laval yesterday at around 5.30 pm. The police tried to disperse the clashes, said the Canadian news agency QMI. «The police attempted to intervene, but the youth threw stones at them. They hid and even surrounded the police at one point», said Lieutenant Geneviere Villemure of the Laval Police Department. The festivities had nevertheless