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Maryam Touzani’s movies: a portrayal of Moroccan society
Maryam Touzani is a film director born in Tangier (Morocco) in 1980. After studying in [...]
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Al-Andalus and the continuity of ancient quarrying in La Alcarria
From the Center for Studies on Islamic Toledo (Islamic Culture Foundation) and the Geological and [...]
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Islamic Madrid: Recovered history versus the single narrative
By Daniel Gil-Benumeya, interviewed by Asunción Molinos Gordo and Andrea Pacheco González. Madrid is not [...]
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Ramadan Mubarak 2026
Sometimes we look for signs outside ourselves, when they already live within us. We just [...]
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An 8th-century dirham in Navalvillar (Colmenar Viejo, Madrid). On its archaeological context and possible interpretations
The following article compiles some of the most recent news about the silver dirham found [...]
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The Andalusian Garden of Rabat, inaugurated
It is a pleasure for us in FUNCI and Med-O-Med to announce that the Botanic [...]
Jun
FUNCI at the annual meeting of the Anna Lindh Foundation
The XIV meeting of the Spanish Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) was held [...]
May
Natural products used in Morocco
These are some of the most well known natural products used in cosmetics in the [...]
Apr
‘The Voices of Water’, in youtube
We are pleased to inform you that our short documentary The voices of water, produced [...]
Feb
The etymological meaning of ‘bedouin’
The word Bedouin (bedw) is referred to the habitants of Badia (al-badia), a place [...]
Feb
Our project in Lebanon, one year after
Just over a year ago, the Islamic Culture Foundation, along with the Municipality of Doueir [...]
Feb
The Feast of the Candles in Salé
Much of the Islamic world has just finished celebrating the ‘Mawlid’, the birth of the [...]
Jan
Mawlid Mubarak
At FUNCI we wish you a blessed Mawlid al-Nabi, or birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, that [...]
Jan
The only living sahabi tree
The last good fellow (sahabi) alive, this is how they call this tree located in [...]
Nov
The water in al-Andalus, in Andalusia and Toledo
In the last few weeks, we have been carrying out the tour of presentations and [...]
Oct
Declaration of the ALF on ‘Innocence of the Muslims’
FUNCI, as a member of Anna Lindh Foundation, alignes itself with the Declaration of the [...]
Sep
Rabat, World heritage by UNESCO
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in St. Petersburg (Russia), unanimously decided, on Friday, to inscribe [...]
Jul
FUNCI participates in actions for dialogue
In the course of the last month representatives of FUNCI attended two important meetings: first, [...]
Jun
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition
Festival de Fès de la Culture Soufie 6ème Édition, sous le thème Sapiences soufies (hikam), [...]
Apr
Cultural colors of Morocco
The exhibition The cultural colors of Morocco, taking place in Rabat, is part of a [...]
Mar
Moroccan young environmentalists at FUNCI Rabat
In February the 19th, the program Med-O-Med FUNCI was presented, in Rabat antenna, to a [...]
Feb
Gardens of Al-Andalus in Dos Hermanas
The exhibition of FUNCI Gardens of al-Andalus travels now to Dos Hermanas, in collaboration with the [...]
Jan
The archeological prospecting in the Agdal, begins
A team of experts of the Laboratory of Architecture and Archaeology of the City (LAAC. [...]
Jan
The orchard garden in Al-Andalus
In al-Ándalus, gardens had more than just an aesthetic role. The orchard gardens grew aromatic [...]
Jan
Technical visit to Southern Lebanon and Palestine
Last week, Francisco Martín, projects technician at the Islamic Culture Foundation (FUNCI), travelled to Lebanon [...]
Dec