The proceedings of the closing symposium of the 19th session of the Moulay Ali Cherif University, organized by the Ministry of Culture, under the High Patronage of H.M. King Mohammed VI, under the theme "Mohammed V and the building of independent Morocco: 1955-1961", ended on Saturday in Dakhla.
Speaking during the closing ceremony of this meeting, the president of the scientific commission of the Moulay Ali Cherif University, the historiographer of the Kingdom Abdelhak Lamrini, highlighted the value and importance of the interventions of the researchers participating in this symposium, having touched on the diplomatic and political aspects of a pivotal phase in the history of modern Morocco.
Abdelhak Lamrini also praised the high level of the interventions and debates engaged on this occasion, as well as the good conditions that surrounded the work of this symposium and ensured its success.
The work of the second day of this symposium was focused on the cultural and social projects in which Morocco engaged under the reign of the late H.M. Mohammed V, such as the restructuring of the educational system and the establishment of the first foundations of university education, through the creation of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The speakers emphasized, in this sense, the importance of the establishment of several institutions at that time, such as the National Mutual Aid, which played an important role, it is added, in strengthening social care and promoting the culture of solidarity and aid to needy categories and people with specific needs.
They also highlighted the adherence of Morocco, at the international level, to programs and projects related to the upgrading of teaching and education and concerning, among other things, the encouragement of research in scientific fields, literacy and education for girls, and the creation of higher scientific institutes, such as the Mohammadia School of Engineers (1959), emphasizing that this dynamic was accompanied by a cultural, literary, and scientific movement at the national level.
The debates engaged were an opportunity to insist on the role played by the region in the defense of the integrity of the homeland and on the solid ties that unite its population to the Alaouite throne and to recall the symbolic value of the speech of the late H.M. Mohammed V in Mhamid El Ghizlane.
