Written by Dr. Abdelhak Azzouzi
CAIRO, Dec. 23 (SEE) - Since the ancient times, many Moroccan travelers landed in Egypt such as Ibn Battuta, Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Rushayd al-Fihri al-Sabti, and Mohammed al-Abdari al-Hihi to describe its civilization and beauty.
The old and new history witnesses the strength and depth of relations between Egypt and Morocco which were established by the ancestors. As a result, the journeys between the two countries didn't stop ever.
Also, the unique friendship between the two nations was another outcome of the bilateral ties in spite of the far distance between Cairo and Rabat. This long distance isn't being recognized because the Arab mind in the two states is almost the same, a matter which affirms the powerful Egyptian-Moroccan relations.
I myself have great ties with Egyptian thinkers, artists, and scientists from many years and hosted some of them in the international intellectual forums which I organized in Fes. During my last visit to Cairo, I met with some brothers from the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA).
I convened with Executive Director of ECFA Ambassador Mounir Zahran, who was formerly an ambassador to Rabat in the 70s, the previous trade and industry minister Ibrahim Fawzy, and the previous chief of ECFA ambassador Amin Shalby who surprised me by a valuable article on my book on why the Arabs failed while others have advanced.
In Salby's article, I highly appreciate his academic and objective analysis where he talked about generations of the Arab intellectuals who traveled to Europe and got shoked by what they saw. Some of them fell into the trap of that the Arab community should follow the Western model and others thought that the Arab world should maintain itself more.
The article made me ask myself about what the mistake was made by ourselves as Arabs. The answer to that question relies in the nations themselves to correct the historic path.
Dr. Abdelhak Azzouzi is a Moroccan professor of international relations and political science, an academic and scholar. He has founded and chaired several developments and research centers and institutions, including the Schools of Hope Association and the Moroccan Center for Interdisciplinary Strategic and International Studies (CMIESI). CMIESI has contributed to establishing a number of global forums, producing internationally-acclaimed publications and creating development programs with an international dimension. Such programs include the Euro-Mediterranean University (the establishment of which was ratified by all 43 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean), and the GERCA African Research Group affiliated with the Institute of Political Science at the University of Toulouse.
Dr. Abdelhak Azzouzi holds a diploma in Political Science and a Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Toulouse, France. He is also a graduate of the Faculty of Law and Sharia at L’Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fez, Morocco, is an Advisory Member of several international organizations, and has received a number of international awards and decorations, including the Order of Arts and Letters awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, and the PAM Prize, as awarded by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM); in addition to having been honored by Abbas Al-Jarrari with a commemorative shield that was presented to him during a recent information security and society conference. Dr. Abdelhak Azzouzi also heads the Mediterranean Award for Thought.
Translator: Hassan El-Khawaga
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