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    Moha Ennaji is author and international consultant. He is one of the leading researchers and academics in North Africa. He is co-founder and Dean for Administrative Affairs of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures (www.inlac.net) at Fez, Morocco. He is a full professor affiliated to Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University since 1982. He was the director of Arabic Studies at Rutgers University from 2006 until 2009.

Ennaji is a scholar of international renown. He is the author and/or editor of numerous books and articles on Moroccan languages, gender, family law, culture, education, migration, civil society and human rights.

He has been awarded the Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant many times, which allowed him to lecture at several US universities.

Ennaji is the President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies (www.csn.on.ma), Director of the first Ph.D. program on Gender Studies and founder of the first Master’s program on Gender Studies in Morocco. He is also a founding member of the ISIS Center for Women and Development, and of the Center for Studies and Research on Women at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah at Fès. He is equally a founding member of the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association.

He is a consultant to the United Nations Research Institute for Development (UNRISD), and contributed to the publication of the book on Social Policy in the Middle East, published by Palgrave in 2006.

He is the Director of the international journal Languages and Linguistics and member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language, and of the international journal Multilingualism.
Ennaji is the Director of the International Festival of Amazigh Culture, organized in Fes every summer since 2005. He is the organizer or co-organizer of several international conferences on language, gender, women, family law, migration, and civil society.
He lectures in Europe, the USA, Africa and the Arab world. He speaks and writes in four languages (Amazigh, Arabic, French, and English). He has contributed to many world encyclopedias on Africa and the Middle East.
Ennaji obtained his PhD from Essex University in the UK in 1982. He has taught at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University for over 23 years, where he was Chair of the English Department from 1988 to 1994.

 

Professional Experience

 

2010 – Present : Co-founder and President of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, INLAC , at Fès.
2009 - present: Co-founder and Dean for Administrative Affairs of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures at Fez, Morocco.
2006 - Present: President of the South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies, Fès , Morocco
2006 - 2008: Director of Arab studies at Rutgers University, USA.
1998 – Present: Director of the Scientific journal ‘Languages and Linguistics’
1986 - 2006: Professor of English and Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts 1, Fès.
1988 - 1994: Chairman of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts 1, Fès.
1982 - 1986: Maitre de Conférences at the Faculty of Arts 1, Fès.
1982 – 1997: Member of the Faculty Council at the Faculty of Arts 1, Fès.
1990 - 2003:  Professor of English at the Royal Military Academy, Meknes.
1977 - 1979: English Teacher at Lycée Moulay Ismael, Casablanca.
1976 - 1977: Instructor at the Ecole des Sciences de l'Information, Rabat.

 

Other Professional Activity

 

Director of the International Festival of Amazigh Culture in Fez since 2005
Co-organizer of the International Forum of Mediterranean Women since 2007 Membership
Middle Eastern Studies Association, MESA
Co-organiser of the  Regional Conference on "How to Brain Drain into Brain Gain", Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association, Rabat, 24 September 2005
Director of the Amazigh (Berber) Festival in Fès, 10-13 March 2005
Main organiser of the National Conference on Berber culture, Fès, 10-13 March 2004, Fès-Saiss Association, University of Fès and IRCAM.
Co-organiser of the International Conference on "Mediterranean Women and their Rights", Fès-Saiss Association and the University of Fès, 26-30 April 2005.
Co-organiser of the National Conference on "Scientific Research and Development", Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association, Rabat, 2 October 2004.
Main organiser of the International Conference on "Migration and Cultural Diversity", Fès-Saiss Association and the International Organisation of Migration, Fès, 1-3 July 2004.
Co-organiser of the International Conference on Mediterranean Women, Fès-Saiss Association and the University of Fès, 24-26 April 2004.

Main organiser of the International Conference on Civil Society and Sustainable Development, 14-15 Feb, 2002.
Co-organiser of the International Conference on Women and Education, University of Fès, Morocco, April 11-13, 2002.
Co-organiser of the International Conference on Women and Development, University of Fès, Morocco, November 21-23, 2000.
Co-organiser of the  Conference on Feminist Movements held at the University of Fes, 13-15 May,1999.
Member of the Council of Fès-Saiss Association (NGO). 1985-till now.
Member of the Council of BMCE Foundation  (NGO). 2000-till now.
Visits to British Universities to establish links and Ph.D.joint supervision agreements with the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fès, February 1990.
Visit to Essex University to coordinate joint supervision of Ph.D. thesis, February 1992.
Supervised 24 M.A. theses at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fès.
Co-Supervised 2 Doctoral dissertations at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fès.
Supervising 12  Doctoral dissertations at Moulay Ismael University, Meknès and 6 at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Fès
Conference coordinator of the Maghrebi Conference held at the Faculty of Arts, Fès, November 1991.
Member of the Editorial Board of La Revue de La Faculté des Lettres de Fès since January 1989.
Member of the Ministerial Regional Inspection Commission of Private Higher Education  1992-1994.
Member of the Council of the Faculty of Arts, Fès since January 1988.

 

Memberships

 
Middles East Studies Association (MESA)
Centre ISIS pour Femmes et Développement
South North Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Migration Studies
Fès-Saiss Association
Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association (MFAA)
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur la Femme (CERF)
BMCE Foundation
Forum Euro-Méditerranéen
Association Convergence 2000
 

Awards and Scholarships

 

Rutgers University Scholarship
Fulbright Scholarship 2003 (University of Mansfield of Pennsylvania)
Fulbright Scholarship 1989 (University of Arizona at Tucson)
Med Campus Scholarship, Bari, Italy 1995
Vice-Chancellors award, London 1980
Vice-Chancellors award, London 1981

 

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