We connect spaces, communities and cultures through Moroccan Anglo-American shared cutting-edge initiatives, proactive dialogue and sustainable collaboration.

The International Association for Moroccan British and American Cultural Dialogue

Connections

We create and facilitate academic events and cross-cultural initiatives, and design shared social projects with significant impact on Moroccan and Anglo-American communities.

Diplomatic Encounters

Join us in rediscovering early political and diplomatic encounters between Morocco and the Anglo-American world.

Performance Sports and Circus Arts

Join us to perform the Moroccan Anglo-American circus dream through acrobatics, music, painting, sculpture, storytelling and calligraphy.

Join our leadership team driving our mission, fostering partnerships and guiding impactful cultural dialogue Events both online and in-person.

Cultural Dialogue Events

Initiatives

Inviting Scholars, Experts, Writers, Artists and Professionals

Promoting intellectual and scholarly dialogue across the Atlantic in order to start Alternative: International Centre for Global South and Moroccan Anglo-American Studies

Farming, Gardening and Cultural Heritage

Fostering cross-cultural farming exchange, creating friendship gardens, curating shared archives, and rejuvenating common cultural heritage.

Locations

Moroccan Cultural Studies and Trans-Atlantic Connections:

Join us to nurture the Moroccan Cultural Studies Perspective on Moroccan Anglo-American historical and cultural, and critical and intellectual encounters to forge transformative critical pedagogies and generative curriculum and course development

Moroccan Thought and Reason across the Atlantic:

Join us to think through the translational turn where Arabic and English are used as discursive tools to articulate Moroccan history, culture and civilization across the Atlantic

Moroccan Anglo-American Library for Archival Dialogue

Establishing and curating a Moroccan Anglo-American Library to facilitate access to historical, literary, artistic, media and cultural archives for scholars, students, artists, professionals and readers

The Arabo-Islamic Anglo-American University for Cultural and Civilisational Dialogue

Creating an international university to celebrate, enhance and promote cultural and civilizational dialogue between the Arabo-Islamic World and the West in Morocco based on Translanguaging diplomacy

Projects

Organizing Academic Events across the Atlantic

Organising Academic Events at Cultural cafés, NGOs, galleries, museums, libraries, book fairs, schools, cottages and villages across the Atlantic

Official Partners

Gibraltar Maroc Business Association

Mohamed Khamouch Foundation for Cultural Heritage and Civilizations

THÉÂTRE RIAD SULTAN

Digital Marketing Agency

Potential International Network

• University of Gibraltar

• University of Granada

• Schiller International University - Madrid Campus

• Saint Louis University Madrid Campus

• The American College in Spain

• Carlucci American International

  School of Lisbon

• Cambridge School - Benfica

• Advanced Institute for Islamic Studies and Research

• American International School of Nouakchott

• The American University in North Africa/ Tunisia

• The American University in Cairo

• The American University in Beirut

• The British University in Egypt

• Cheikh Anta Diop

• University/Senegal

• University of Lagos/Nigeria

Potential UK-based Networking Associations

• British Moroccan Society

• British Council Morocco | Morocco

• British Moroccans

• West London Moroccan Widadia

• The Al-Hasaniya Centre: A community lifeline for

• London's Moroccan and Arab women

• Res Artis – Worldwide Network of Arts Residencies

• Moroccan Cultural Centre UK

• East London British Moroccan Community

• Moroccan community in the uk

• London's Moroccan Festival

Potential US-based Networking Associations

• Arab American Festivals

• Moroccan-American Heritage Festival - ADC

• Moroccan American Diaspora Groups

• The Moroccan Times Online Magazine

• The American School in Tangier

• Morocco World News

• Arab American Institute

• The Moroccan Cultural Center: Washington D.C

• Moroccan American Community Organization

• American Moroccan Association

• Moroccan American Network

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• Abdelmalek Essadi University/ Tetouan/ Morocco

• King Fahd School of Translation

• UNE Morocco | University of New England in Maine/Tangier

• Cardiff Metropolitan University and SIST- Tangier/Morocco

• Al Akhawayn University/ Ifran /Morocco

• Euromed University of Fes/Morocco

• UIR – The International University of Rabat/ Morocco

• Tangier American Legation Museum/Tangier

• American School of Tangier/Morocco

• Dar Essalam American School/Casablanca

Potential Morocco-based Networking Institutions

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Who is Who

The IAMBACD is a registered International Association in Morocco. It is a leading convivial hub for establishing and sustaining strong connections between enthusiastic individuals, sincere friends, cooperative colleagues, engaged communities and proactive drivers of significant change in Morocco, Britain and the United States.

This is the list of the Board Members of IAMBACD:

President: Dr. Layachi El Habbouch is Professor of English Literature and Moroccan Cultural Studies at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

Vice-President: Dr. Rachid El Mechhouri is Professor of English, Communication and Translation at the Department of Communication and Transversal Learning, Faculty of Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

Secretary General: Dr. Jaouad El Habbouch is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

Vice-Secretary General: Mrs. Amina Darraj is Teacher of English at Sidi Idriss High School in Tangier.

Treasurer : Mr. Bilal Brahmi is Teacher of English at Al- Mourabiteen High School in Tangier and PhD student at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco.

Vice-Treasurer: Mr. Omar El Bourkadi is Flight Agent at Qatar Airways.

Associate Member: Dr. Abdennour Mezzine is Medical Doctor and Novelist

Associate Member : Mr. Abdelhamid El Haouta is Agricultural Engineer , Former Professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Tetouan , Founding Member of Global Engineering and Development and Novelist.

Associate Member: Abdelhadi Gailan is Teacher of English at Moulay Rachid High School in Tangier and PhD student at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tetouan, Morocco

Word of the President of IAMBACD Dr. Layachi El Habbouch

The idea of IAMBACD started in 2014 after I had finished my PhD on Moroccan Professional Entertainers in Britain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries under the supervision of Dr. Khalid Bekkaoui, the Director of the Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre at the Department of English Studies, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University in Fes. Indeed, the scholarly focus in the Moroccan Cultural Studies Centre on Moroccan Anglo-American cultural encounters across disciplines, arts, narratives, sports and archives, has led me to discover the significance of initiating this association. As a leadership team, we seek to promote academic, artistic, civil, social, cultural, environmental and touristic encounters between Morocco and the Anglo- American world. We strive to create tangible forms of impact on Moroccan Anglo-American spaces, communities and lives in such meaningful ways that put people, cultures and civilisations together. We intend to enhance academic and cultural forms of diplomacy between Morocco and the Anglo-American world based on shared collaboration. This enhancement process is founded on the rediscovery of Moroccan diplomatic and commercial, historical and archival, scientific and literary, and artistic and social connections with the Anglo-American world across the Atlantic. By rediscovering such connections, we can develop initiatives, projects and activities that help with the promotion of the shared future based on proactivity and sustainability.