Text of the declaration made by the Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France:
The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs joins the "Aladdin Project" in organizing, from January 27 to February 8, a series of events in several French cultural centers and institutes on the occasion of the International Day of commemoration of the memory of Holocaust victims ( January 27).
The "Aladdin Project", launched at the initiative of the Foundation for the Memory of the Holocaust, chaired by David de Rothschild, under the patronage of UNESCO, aims to translate into Arabic, Presian and Turkish books on the subject of the Holocaust in order to allow such books to be read anywhere in the world.
For the first time in Rabat, Casablanca, Istanbul, Tunis, Cairo, Baghdad, Amman, Erbil, Nazareth and Jerusalem, literary evenings will be organized for reading If This is a Man by Primo Levi followed by discussions in the presence of intellectuals.
A press conference presenting the project will be held Tuesday, January 26 at 3 pm at the Foreign Correspondents' Center in the presence of members of the Aladdin Project.