The Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco (in

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: أكاديمية المملكة المغربية ; in

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based in

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 populati ...

. It was founded on by the king

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with the objective of contributing to the development and promotion of scientific research, particularly in the fields of humanities, culture and arts. The site of the academy, located along Avenue Mohammed VI, south of

, is adjoining that of the other Moroccan academic institution: the

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, specialized in exact, natural and technical sciences. The academy has sixty members: thirty resident members, of Moroccan nationality, and thirty associate members, of other nationalities. In 2021, the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco was reorganized by law n° 74-19 promulgated by dahir n° 1-21-02 of February 5, 2021. It now includes three institutes: the Higher Academic Authority for Translation; the Academic Arts' Institute and the Royal Institute of Research on the History of Morocco.

Structure

Since 2015, the perpetual secretary of the academy is Abdeljalil Lahjomri, who is also the director of the

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Members

References

External links

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