Aladdin Project: Facts and Figures
Since the official launch of the Aladdin Project under the patronage of UNESCO on March 27, 2009, the multilingual Web site (www.projetaladin.org) and the online library (www.aladdinlibrary.org) have been receiving a steadily rising number of visitors, while over 1,000 intellectuals, public figures and civil society actors from 50 countries – half of them from the Muslim world - have declared their support for the Aladdin Project.
Aladdin’s Board of Directors adopts new program of outreach to Muslim world
In its first meeting in Paris on Monday, November 9, the Aladdin Project’s new Board of Directors approved a multi-faceted program that focuses on education, public information, network-building and the Internet to raise awareness of Holocaust history, promote intercultural dialogue and understanding and wage a common struggle against all forms of Holocaust denial, anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.
Lebanese and Arab intellectuals speak out against censorship of Anne Frank’s Diary
In a statement released in Paris, Aladdin Project’s President Anne-Marie Revcolevschi praised the Lebanese, Arab and Muslim intellectuals, politicians and journalists who have condemned the campaign of intimidation and censorship launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah against the Diary of Anne Frank, calling it “a cry of conscience on the part of those who cannot accept that the diary of a Jewish girl who died in a Nazi death camp at the age of fifteen be treated in this vile manner.”
Lebanese MP: All schools in Lebanon should have the right to teach Anne Frank’s Diary
Speaking on LBC television, Lebanese parliamentary deputy Sami Gemayel strongly condemned Hezbollah’s call for the censorship of the Diary and said, “Schools in Lebanon must have the right to teach the Diary of Anne Frank.”
Lebanese daily: People of Lebanon “silent victims” of Hezbollah-led Ban on Anne Frank
In an article in the Lebanese daily l'Orient Le Jour, journalist Ziyad Makoul strongly denounced the obscurantist censorship of the Diary instigated by Hezbollah and said “ the Lebanese people in their entirety are the silent victims of this collective rape. ”
UNESCO adopts important resolution on Holocaust education
The 35th General Conference of UNESCO, which concluded its work in Paris on October 23, voted for an important resolution that enhances the organization’s role in Holocaust education and remembrance in the context of peace and tolerance education.