Subject: USA-Morocco NGO initiatives - academic, performative, community-based For immediate release, please: RE: TRANSFORMATIONS: "Arab-spring" themed

conference and publications - Morocco Moroccan Minister of Culture, Mohamed Amine Sbihi, attends ICPS-Tangier conference Honors Moroccan national-award winning playwright Mohamed Kaouti And English-language release of Kaoutis most noted work, No Mans Land Hailed as "one of the most important plays in the Moroccan artistic repertoire following independence.."
--Khalid Amine Conference Convener

And situated as a product of Morocco's traditional 'open space' for debate - the theatre, No Man's Land foregrounds and predicts the Mouvement du 20 Fvrier. It shrewdly highlights the seemingly irreconcilable struggles, conflicting aspirations, and complex socio-political realities of postcolonial Morocco. As various groups vie for power in the still-unfolding Arab Spring, Kaoutis No Mans Land reminds us that we ought to be paying closer attention to artists, the voices of 'insiders' and to performative powers."
--George F Roberson Conference Co-convener

No Mans Land
By Mohamed Kaouti Translated from Arabic by Mohamed Yassin El Harruchi ISBN 9780982440940 Includes the forward, No Man's Land: Voices From 'Deep Morocco' by Khalid Amine Available on Amazon.com -- bulk orders through the Publisher Info at: http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2011/12/no-mans-land.html

The English-language edition of No Mans Land was made possible through the generous support of the Crossroads Institute for Interweaving Cultures (CIFIC) and in partnership with Collaborative Media International (CMI) and International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) Tangier, Morocco. Full "TRANSFORMATIONS" conference program posted here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/100377398/Performing-Transformations-Tangier-June-1-to-4-2012
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Collaborative Media International (CMI) is an all-volunteer USA-based book publishing cooperative with all proceeds reinvested for more books and conferences: http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/welcome.html International Centre for Performance Studies (ICPS) Tangier is a Morocco-based academic NGO, founded by two-time Fulbrighter to the USA, Khalid Amine. ICPS organizes the Annual Tangier International Conferences (8 editions complete) co-founded with Barry Tharaud (Professor, Fulbrighter) and Andrew Hussey (Dean of the Institute, University of London Institute in Paris). Information at: http://icpsmorocco.org/new/ Also from Collaborative Media International (CMI): Moroccan Arabic A Practical Guide to Learning Moroccan Darija - the Arabic Dialect of Morocco (2nd edition)
By Aaron Sakulich Edited by Rajae Khaloufi ISBN 9780982440933 Available on Amazon.com -- bulk orders through the Publisher Coming soon, new francophone edition, "L'arabe Marocain" Info at: http://collaborativemedia.blogspot.com/2010/10/international-publishing.html

Join us! partners, granters, proposals, manuscripts, inquiries, etc., always welcomed -Partners for International Collaboration and Education (PICE)
George F Roberson, PhD - Chair, PICE Amherst, Denver, Tangier - worldwide Department of Geosciences, Geography Human Dimensions Research Group, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Fulbright Scholar to Morocco george.roberson@fulbrightmail.org http://interactive-worlds.blogspot.com/2007/12/welcome.html

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