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Mohammed V University At Agdal
Mohammed V University (, french: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat), in Rabat, Morocco, was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. History The university was founded in 1957. It is named for Mohammed V, the former King of Morocco who died in 1961. In 1993, it was divided into two independent universities: Mohammed V University at Agdal and Mohammed V University at Souissi. In September 2014 the two universities merged into one, known as Mohammed V University, but maintaining the two campuses. The university has 18 total colleges as of 2020. Alumni * Mohammed Abed Al Jabri, Moroccan academic and philosopher; he graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1967 and a PhD in 1970. *Rafik Abdessalem, Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, received a B.A. in philosophy from Mohammed V University.Sana AjmiRafik Abdessalem, ''Tunisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the capital city of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra administrative region. Rabat is located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the river Bou Regreg, opposite Salé, the city's main commuter town. Rabat was founded in the 12th century by Almohads. The city steadily grew but went into an extended period of decline following the collapse of the Almohads. In the 17th century Rabat became a haven for Barbary pirates. The French established a protectorate over Morocco in 1912 and made Rabat its administrative center. Morocco achieved independence in 1955 and Rabat became its capital. Rabat, Temara, and Salé form a conurbation of over 1.8 million people. Silt-related problems have diminished Rabat's role as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soumia Fahd
Soumia Fahd is a Moroccan herpetologist at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan. Life and work In high school, Fahd studied experimental sciences. For her BSc, she studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Mons (Belgium). (in French). She then returned to Morocco to study biology at the Mohammed V University Mohammed V University (, french: Université Mohammed-V de Rabat), in Rabat, Morocco, was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. History The uni ... and continued her education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan, earning a degree in animal biology in 1986. Fahd initially joined the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan in 1986 as an assistant. She is a full professor at that university where she heads the Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics, Biodiversity Conservation, which she founded in 2012. For three decades, she has been dedicated to studying amphibians an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Universities
This is a list of lists of universities and colleges. Subject of study * Aerospace engineering * Agriculture * Art schools * Business * Chiropractic * Engineering * Forestry * Law * Maritime studies * Medicine * Music * Nanotechnology * Osteopathy * Pharmaceuticals * Social Work Institution type * Community colleges * For-profit universities and colleges * Land-grant universities * Liberal arts universities * National universities * Postgraduate-only institutions * Private universities * Public universities * Research universities * Technical universities * Sea-grant universities * Space-grant universities * State universities and colleges * Unaccredited universities Location * Lists of universities and colleges by country * List of largest universities Religious affiliation * Assemblies of God * Baptist colleges and universities in the United States * Catholic universities :* Ecclesiastical universities :* Benedictine colleges and universities :* Jesuit ins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by Øresund Bridge, a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including List of largest lakes of Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zohour Alaoui
Zohour Alaoui is Moroccan diplomat who served as Moroccan ambassador to Sweden and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). At UNESCO she was elected President of the 39th session of the Organization’s General Conference. Education Alaoui attended Georgetown University, Washington D.C. where she obtained a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies in 1992 and obtained a degree in Public Law with Political Science Option from Mohammed V University, Rabat. Career She began her career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation as Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco in Washington from 1987 to 1992 before being appointed Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs serving between 1993 and 1995. She became Chief of the Service for Governmental Organizations of a Political Nature in 1995 and served until 1997 when she was appointed Chief of the Service for the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed VI Of Morocco
Mohammed VI ( ar, محمد السادس; born 21 August 1963) is the King of Morocco. He belongs to the 'Alawi dynasty and acceded to the throne on 23 July 1999, upon the death of his father, King Hassan II. Upon ascending to the throne, Mohammed initially introduced a number of reforms and changed the family code, ''Mudawana'', granting women more power. Leaked diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks in 2010 led to allegations of corruption in the court of Mohammed, implicating him and his closest advisors. Widespread disturbances in 2011, a Moroccan element of the Arab Spring, protested against corruption and urged political reform. In response, Mohammed put into effect a program of reforms and introduced a new constitution. These reforms were passed by a public referendum on 1 July 2011. Mohammed has vast business holdings across several economic sectors in Morocco. His net worth has been estimated at between and over US$8.2 billion, and, according to the American business ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moulay Rachid Of Morocco
Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, also known as Prince Moulay Rachid ben al-Hassan, ( ar, الأمير مولاي رشيد بن الحسن; born ) is a member of the Alawi dynasty. He was the youngest male child of the late King Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa Hammou. He holds a doctorate in international politics and serves Morocco as a diplomat, including attending the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. He is currently second in the line of succession to the Moroccan throne. Early life and education Prince Moulay Rachid is the second son and fifth child of King Hassan II and his wife, Lalla Latifa Hammou. Prince Moulay Rachid has one older brother, King Mohammed VI, and three sisters, Princess Lalla Meryem, Princess Lalla Asma and Princess Lalla Hasna. After primary and secondary studies at the Royal College in Rabat and obtaining the Baccalauréat in June 1989, he entered Mohammed V University in Rabat to start his higher studies in law. In May 1993, Prince Moulay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Toufiq
Ahmed Toufiq (born 22 June 1943) is a Moroccan historian and novelist who is serving as Minister for Islamic Affairs in the government of Morocco since 2002. Biography Toufiq was born on 22 June 1943 in the Marigha Village in the High Atlas. After completing his primary and secondary studies in Marrakech, he enrolled at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Rabat, where he got a bachelor's degree in history in 1968, then a master's degree in history. Toufiq also holds a certificate of Archaeology. He presented his PhD in 1979 on the subject of social history in the Moroccan rural areas in the 19th century. He started his career as a teacher at ''L'École Normale'' Supérieure de ''Marrakech'' and taught in a high school in Rabat. Thereafter, he joined the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Rabat, where he served in various roles from 1970 to 1989; lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor. He was later appointed director of the Institute of African Studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unified Socialist Party (Morocco)
The Unified Socialist Party (french: Parti Socialiste Unifié, PSU; ar, الحزب الاشتراكي الموحد), previously known as the Party of the Unified Socialist Left (french: Parti de la Gauche Socialiste Unifiée, PGSU; ), is a democratic socialist political party in Morocco. History and profile The Unified Socialist Party is a mixture of various movements that sprung up throughout the 1960s and 1970s. It first started with the spin-off "23 Mars" (a reference to the 23 March 1965 students' uprising), a radical, Maoist student fraction of the largest group in opposition to the Moroccan monarchy, the National Union of Popular Forces. The Party of the Unified Socialist Left was founded by Mohamed Bensaid Ait Idder in 2002. The Unified Socialist Party was founded in 2005 as a merger of the Party of the Unified Socialist Left and the “Fidélité à la Démocratie” association. The party boycotted the 2011 parliamentary election. Nabila Mounib is the secretary-gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nabila Mounib
Nabila Mounib ( ar, نبيلة منيب; born 14 February 1960) is a Moroccan politician who currently serves as the General Secretary of the Unified Socialist Party (PSU). She is the first woman to be elected head of a Moroccan party. Early life Mounib is the daughter of Ahmed Mounib, a diplomat who served as the Moroccan consul in Oran during the 1970s where she spent part of her childhood, graduating from high school in Algeria in 1977. Her mother, Khadija Belmekki comes from a wealthy family from Fez. She later studied in the University in Rabat and briefly in Montpellier where she obtained a Ph.D. in endocrinology, after which she was a rewarded with a teaching position in the University of Ain Chok Casablanca, where she taught biology (endocrinology) ever since. Political career In 1985, when she was preparing her doctoral thesis in France, she was active in the Youth of Democratic Students, then joined the Organization for Freedom of Information and Expression (OLIE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narvaez Expedition
Narvaez is a surname of Spanish and also Basque origin, and may refer to: *Darcia Narvaez, American psychologist *Francisco de Narváez (born 1953), Colombian-born politician and businessman *Kiko (footballer, born 1972), born Francisco Miguel Narváez Machón, Spanish football player *Frankie Narvaez (1939–2004), Puerto Rican boxer * Israel Narvaez, gang leader in New York *José María Narváez (1768–1840), Spanish explorer and navigator * Leonardo Narváez (born 1980), Colombian track cyclist * Luis de Narváez ( fl. 1526–1549), Spanish composer *Luis Pacheco de Narváez (1570–1640), Spanish author * Manuel Narvaez (born 1981), Puerto Rican basketball player *Omar Andrés Narváez (born 1975), Argentinian boxer * Omar Narváez (baseball) (born 1992), Venezuelan baseball player *Pánfilo de Narváez (1478–1528), Spanish conquistador and explorer *Paula Narváez (born 1972), Chilean psychologist and politician *Ramón María Narváez y Campos, 1st Duke of Valencia Ramón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estevanico
Estevanico ("Little Stephen"; modern spelling Estebanico; –1539), also known as Esteban de Dorantes or Mustafa Azemmouri (مصطفى الزموري), was the first African to explore North America. Estevanico first appears as a slave in Portuguese records in Morocco, with him being sold to a Spanish nobleman in about 1521. In 1527 he joined the Spanish Narváez expedition to explore " La Florida", present-day Northern Mexico and Southern United States. He has been referred to as "the first great African man in America". He became a folk hero in the folklore of Spain and legend in New Spain, his exploration and cataloging of the Gulf of Mexico, and what is today modern Florida and Texas, resulted in numerous legends about him. During his final exploration and disappearance in New Mexico, and what would become the Southwestern United States, he became mythologized as part of stories involving the Seven Cities of Gold in Santa Fe de Nuevo México. In both historical and moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
