Crossed perspectives on the East-West duality

The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech (UCAM) hosted an international symposium from 2 to 4 April on the theme "East-West: Crossed Representations". This event was co-organised by the Culture, Heritage and Tourism Laboratory of the Faculty of Arts and the teams from CELFA/CLARE (Centre for Literary, Linguistic, Francophone and African Studies/Cultures, Literatures, Arts, Representations, Aesthetics) and TELEM (Texts, Literatures, Writings and Models) of the French University of Bordeaux Montaigne, with the support of the French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations and the French Institute of Marrakech. Following a first symposium organised in November 2013 by the TELEM team of the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, this meeting allowed a group of national and foreign academics and researchers to extend the reflections and discussio…