Avenue 9 Avril
Tetouan
Morocco
- Heritage
- Others
- Youth and education
The most fundamental concern of the Tetouan Asmir Association is to maintain a positive approach to the problems facing the city of Tetouan despite the fact that the city has known a progressive decline at the social, cultural, economic and environmental levels. Our members do not share the same political inclinations, they belong to different walks of life and professions, and they often have different and even contrasting opinions concerning the same problems.
We organized numerous conferences on the medina and in the Medina. We have published over twenty five books in Arabic, French and Spanish which are in a variety of ways, related to the Medina. Our publications are now well known in Morocco and abroad, and it is basically thanks to them that we now have important contacts with different government institutions and N.G.O.’s in Morocco and abroad with whom we hope to carry out projects of a cultural and social nature related to the Medina.
Another interesting cultural project of our association is that of cataloguing Tetouan’s private and public libraries by computer. In the context of the Centre of Documentation for Northern Morocco which we created with the Ecole Normale Superieure of Tetouan, we have catalogued more than twenty private libraries of the Medina and surpassed 50000 titles.