Anouar Majid elected to Board of Directors of Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs, director of the Center for Global Humanities, and vice president for Communications, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2014.  The term is renewable for a second three-year period.

A formal announcement of Majid's election will be made at the offices of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) at the Smithsonian Institution on December 2, 2013, in Washington, D.C.

TALIM, the only U.S. National Historic Landmark outside the United States, functions as a museum, research library, conference facility, and community center, and hosts a language program.  Its Board is composed of eminent scholars, diplomats, and personalities from the private sector. Through its grants, conferences, research library, public visitor and social outreach programs, TALIM provides a bridge of communication and understanding between the U.S., Morocco, and countries around the world.