The Aladdin Project and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs are organizing a series of literary evenings in ten cities between January 26 and the first week of February 2010 dedicated to one of the classics of the twentieth century, "If This Is a Man"(or "Survival in Auschwitz") by Primo Levi. In Cairo, Rabat, Casablanca, Istanbul,
Amman, Tunis, Baghdad, Irbil, Nazareth and Jerusalem, the major testimony of a survivor of Auschwitz will be presented in its Arabic or Turkish translation and
discussed in the historical context of the Holocaust. The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution in November 2005 proclaiming January 27,
the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the International Day of commemoration of victims of the Holocaust.