The inauguration of the national pavilion took place in the presence of the French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, the President of the Île-de-France Region, Valérie Pécresse, as well as other Moroccan and French dignitaries, including Advisor to His Majesty the King, André Azoulay, the Moroccan Ambassador to France, Samira Sitail, the Kingdom’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, Ambassador Samir Addahre, and the Chairman of the France-Morocco interparliamentary friendship group in the Senate, Christian Cambon.

Several Moroccan and French authors also attended the inauguration of the Moroccan pavilion, which is hosting around forty publishing houses as part of a special program titled “Letters from Morocco”, featuring 46 events that showcase the diversity of Moroccan literary production.

Designed as “a true immersion into the diversity of Morocco’s literary and artistic scene,” this rich program includes 28 talks on the conference stage, 16 panels on literary and societal themes, 10 book presentations, 2 artistic performances (slam and theater), as well as an international panel on the “France-Morocco Atlantic Destiny,” in connection with this year’s theme, “the sea.”