Category: Director General

Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), received on Friday, at the Organization’s headquarters in Rabat, Mr. Abdellatif Bensfia, Director of the Higher Institute for Information and Communication (ISIC). The two parties explored cooperation prospects.

Dr. AlMalik reviewed ICESCO’s new vision, which promotes an open-door policy towards all universities and develops mechanisms of communication and scientific and academic cooperation in Muslim countries.

The meeting also touched upon fields of cooperation in the upcoming period, most notably the preparation of an agreement to set up the Chair of ICESCO and ISIC. The discussion also involved developing business incubators and providing scholarships for students as well as training opportunities. Mr. Bensfia commended ICESCO’s new vision and progress as well as its open-door policy towards universities and the academic community. He also expressed his desire to develop constructive cooperation to serve Muslim countries.

Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), received on Friday, at the Organization’s headquarters, Ms. Golda El-Khoury, Director of UNESCO Regional Office in Rabat. The two parties explored fields and programs of cooperation between ICESCO and UNESCO in the spheres of education, science, and culture in 2021.

During the meeting, Dr. AlMAlik reviewed the major activities and programs that ICESCO launched and implemented to support Member States’ efforts to counter the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic.  He also highlighted ICESCO’s progress as part of its new vision and action strategy, which promotes an open-door policy.

Ms. Golda El-Khoury expressed UNESCO’s willingness to sustain cooperation with ICESCO through programs in the area of common interest between Member States of ICESCO and UNESCO in 2021.

The Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, yesterday, held a videoconference with Mr. Anar Karimov, Acting Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, to discuss ways of promoting cooperation and partnership between ICESCO and Azerbaijan. Mr. Vasif Evaz Zadeh, Secretary-General of the Azerbaijani National Commission for Education, Science, and Culture, also attended the videoconference.

During the meeting, Mr. Karimov briefed Dr. AlMalik on the destruction of some historic monuments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the attempted desecration of mosques and places of worship, in the wake of the conflict with Armenia. The two parties examined ways of joint action to restore those sites.

The Acting Minister invited ICESCO DG to visit Azerbaijan for a meeting with senior officials in the country to explore cooperation aspects and tour the heritage sites that have been destroyed or have endured serious vandalism in Nagorno-Karabakh Region.

Talks during the meeting centered on the arrangements for Baku Heritage Forum, to be held on May 5, 2021. ICESCO will actively participate in the forum as part of its new vision and working strategy.

ICESCO Heritage Center is a testament to the special attention the Organization’s vision and strategy pay to heritage. The Center trains professionals of the field within the Member States and inscribes historical sites on the Islamic World Heritage List (IWHL) following the adoption of the inscription files by the Islamic World Heritage Committee (ISWHC).

Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), received yesterday, at ICESCO’s headquarters, Dr. Yussra bint Hussain Al-Jazairi, the Saudi Cultural Attaché in Morocco. The two parties explored the fields of cooperation in the upcoming period, including the celebration of the World Arabic Language Day 2020.

The meeting, held in the presence of several staff members of the Saudi Cultural Mission, reviewed the arrangements for the celebration of the World Arabic Language Day, due to be held next December at ICESCO’s headquarters in Rabat. The Saudi Cultural Mission will organize one of the celebration’s sessions.

The meeting also touched upon cooperation between ICESCO and Saudi Arabia in the field of culture, under the new vision and strategy of ICESCO. The strategy promotes further communication with the Member States with the end view of inscribing and protecting tangible and intangible heritage in the Islamic world and raising awareness of and disseminating the Islamic civilizational heritage around the globe.

Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), expressed his condolences on the passing of Amadou Toumani Touré, Former President of Mali, may Allah rest his soul, at the headquarters of the Malian Embassy in Rabat.

Dr. AlMalik, on behalf of ICESCO’s staff members, expressed his condolences to the Malian people on the passing of the Late Amadou Touré, on Tuesday, November 10, 2020, in Turkey, while citing all his virtues and consoling his family.

In his statement on the Embassy’s book of condolences, Dr. AlMalik stressed that the Late Amadou Touré made great contributions to Mali and had excellent relationships in the political circles.

The Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, extended his condolences on the death of the ex-president of the Republic of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, may Allah have mercy on him, at the Embassy of Ghana in Rabat.

Dr. AlMalik expressed, on ICESCO’s behalf, his profound sympathy and condolences to the people of Ghana on the loss of Jerry Rawlings who passed away on Thursday, November 12, 2020. The DG also praised the role the late ex-President had played in the history of Ghana as it led the country between 1979 and 2001.

In a message he wrote on the book of condolences of the Embassy, Dr. AlMalik stated that Mr. Rawlings was a figure that had enjoyed great respect and appreciation from fellow leaders and friends.

The Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, met on November 17, Mr. Mohamed Ould Hanani, Ambassador of Mauritania to Morocco, at the Organization’s headquarters. The two officials explored areas and programs of cooperation between ICESCO and Mauritania.

During the meeting, Dr. AlMalik reviewed ICESCO’s vision and new working strategy. He touched on the Organization’s major developments, initiatives, activities, and programs to support Member States’ efforts in the face of adverse repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on educational, scientific, and cultural fields. He also mentioned the assistance the Organization extended to many countries, including Mauritania.

The Mauritanian Ambassador lauded the excellent work undertaken in its areas of competence while reaffirming his country’s willingness to sustain constructive measures with the ICESCO.

Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, Director-General (DG) of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ICESCO), reaffirmed that education is a bastion that should be protected from all forms of bigotry, defamation, and the rejection of differing views, and background.

“The educational institution should spread the culture of tolerance, respect, dialogue, cooperation, and acceptance of human diversity. It constitutes a space to raise national awareness and promote the proper social upbringing of children and youth, who should learn tolerance as an educational value to become good and open-minded citizens” he added.

The statement was part of Dr. AlMalik’s address at the 3rd Forum of the Kingdom’s Dialogues that King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue (KACND) in Saudi Arabia held on Monday, November 16, under the theme “We discourse for tolerance”. The videoconference brought together ministers, intellectuals, and directors of research centers as well as experts on the International Day of Tolerance.

Dr. AlMalik stated that teaching tolerance in educational institutions lies in rejecting discrimination between learners. “Daily interaction based on mutual respect can promote and enrich the national identity,” he continued.

“The culture of tolerance also aims to build a shared history of mankind in the future through the promotion of various sources of heritage. In Muslim countries, we have a diverse human heritage, which belongs to various nations and is part of our identity and civilizational wealth as well as a soft power at the international level,” stressed Dr. AlMalik.

ICESCO DG added that human societies today experience an unprecedented exchange of knowledge and constant communication. “We live side by side without isolation. The daily interaction is no more an option, it is rather a universal norm that should be rationally addressed and considered,” he stressed.

The DG highlighted that ICESCO, as part of its new vision, issued an international document to entrench the bases of solidarity and tolerance. The document, titled “ICESCO Declaration for Moral Solidarity,” received unanimous support from all international religious leadership and institutions. It tackles a key topic “moral solidarity in the face of crises” based on two foundations: the need for universal ethics and the need for preserving human dignity.

Dr. AlMalik underscored that ICESCO, along with its partners, launched a new action program for the benefit of universities and research institutions on the intellectual immunity from extremism. The Organization is also preparing the first guide on the deconstruction of extremism discourse and the first encyclopedia in the field while calling for cooperation with ICESCO by joining these civilizational projects.