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Remembering Mohamed Ibn Azzuz Hakim
October 08, 20157:30 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Auditorium (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9).
7:30 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
Professor Morales Lezcano is giving this conference, in which one hundred years of Spanish-Moroccan relations will be reviewed.
Mohamed Ibn Azzuz Hakim (1924-2014) was a Moroccan civil servant in the Spanish administration of Morocco, though at the same time he served the cause of the Moroccan nationalist movement put in motion by Abdelkhalek Torres from Tetouan.
Ibn Azzuz mainly performed tasks related with history, archives and culture with a “Northern” leaning within the framework of the nation-state of an independent Morocco, writing as many as 219 works, 181 in Spanish and 38 in Arabic, on diplomacy, history, geography, religion and popular traditions, as well as other subjects. He is therefore one of the most prolific Moroccan writers in the Spanish language and the dean of Morocco’s Hispanists.
With the passing of Mohamed Ibn Azzuz Hakim, professor emeritus Víctor Morales Lezcano of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) will provide a description of the multifaceted contribution he made to the dialogue between our two shores.
Víctor Morales Lezcano
With a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma and at the headquarters of the UNED in Madrid, as well as having taught monographic courses and given conferences at several universities and historical research centers in Paris, Rabat, Tunis, Granada, the United States and Istanbul/Ankara. His main fields of study include the history of international relations in the Mediterranean from 1850-2000, with an emphasis on the Spanish-French tandem (Europe) and the central Maghreb countries (North Africa). He has been a tenured professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma (1979-1982) and a professor of the same subject at the UNED (1982-2009). He is currently a professor emeritus at the UNED. He is also the director of the Seminar on Oral and Graphic Sources (UNED-Madrid) and a member of History of International Relations (Committee on Historical Sciences, Milan-Geneva). He has been an Erasmus Programs Coordinator (UNED) in the field of Euro-African Studies and a member of the Averroes Committee for Spanish-Moroccan understanding from 1997-2003, a productive period in his teaching interventions at the Diplomatic School (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute, both in Madrid. He is currently exploring essay writing in “El Imparcial” (a digital newspaper) and in “Revista de Occidente.”
Ibn Azzuz mainly performed tasks related with history, archives and culture with a “Northern” leaning within the framework of the nation-state of an independent Morocco, writing as many as 219 works, 181 in Spanish and 38 in Arabic, on diplomacy, history, geography, religion and popular traditions, as well as other subjects. He is therefore one of the most prolific Moroccan writers in the Spanish language and the dean of Morocco’s Hispanists.
With the passing of Mohamed Ibn Azzuz Hakim, professor emeritus Víctor Morales Lezcano of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) will provide a description of the multifaceted contribution he made to the dialogue between our two shores.
Víctor Morales Lezcano
With a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma and at the headquarters of the UNED in Madrid, as well as having taught monographic courses and given conferences at several universities and historical research centers in Paris, Rabat, Tunis, Granada, the United States and Istanbul/Ankara. His main fields of study include the history of international relations in the Mediterranean from 1850-2000, with an emphasis on the Spanish-French tandem (Europe) and the central Maghreb countries (North Africa). He has been a tenured professor of Contemporary History at the Universidad Autónoma (1979-1982) and a professor of the same subject at the UNED (1982-2009). He is currently a professor emeritus at the UNED. He is also the director of the Seminar on Oral and Graphic Sources (UNED-Madrid) and a member of History of International Relations (Committee on Historical Sciences, Milan-Geneva). He has been an Erasmus Programs Coordinator (UNED) in the field of Euro-African Studies and a member of the Averroes Committee for Spanish-Moroccan understanding from 1997-2003, a productive period in his teaching interventions at the Diplomatic School (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the Gutiérrez Mellado University Institute, both in Madrid. He is currently exploring essay writing in “El Imparcial” (a digital newspaper) and in “Revista de Occidente.”
