The project to set up “INSANIA”, an Institute for Advanced Humanities in Africa and the Mediterranean, was announced Saturday in Essaouira during the meeting of the Center for Studies and Research on Hebrew Law in Morocco, held in Bayt Dakira. The INSANIA Institute project, which is under construction, was initiated with the assistance of the History and Sociology department of the University of Bordeaux. It will focus its work on Advanced Humanities in partnership with European and African networks already active in this discipline, said Azoulay. The newly refurbished Bayt Dakira or “House of Memory” is dedicated to the historic coexistence of Jewish and Muslim communities in Morocco. It is a vivid testimony of a period when Islam and Judaism had an exceptional closeness, complicity and intimacy.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 10, 2020 11:26 UTC