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TANGIER, Morocco

UNE's Anouar Majid receives award at Ibn Battuta International Festival

Anouar Majid receives peace ambassador award at Ibn Battuta International Festival
Anouar Majid receives peace ambassador award at Ibn Battuta International Festival

On November 11, 2017, Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs, was declared peace ambassador at the gala reception concluding the Ibn Battuta International Festival in Tangier, Morocco. The festival is named after Tangier native, famous medieval traveler and scholar Ibn Battuta. 

Later that month, Majid gave the closing keynote lecture at Theatre Forms in Motion, an international conference held at UNE’s Tangier Campus. In his talk about the opportunities of global studies and globalization, Majid used various examples detailing the ways we have all become globalized and why a conscious adoption of a global mindset could help make the world a better and safer place.

Majid’s talk was attended by prominent playwrights and scholars from around the world, including Nigeria, Iraq and Algeria, as well as a few European nations. Members of the audience were fully engaged in the conversation during the lecture's Q & A session. The event concluded with Majid receiving a token gift from the organizers of the conference and a group photo with the playwrights and scholars.

 

To learn more about UNE’s Global Education programs, visit www.une.edu/global/ed

To apply, visit www.une.edu/admissions

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The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.