Morocco’s King Fahd Higher School of Translation in Tangier has graduated what local reporting described as the first cohort from its Arabic-Amazigh-French written translation track, marking a new institutional milestone for Amazigh-language training in higher education.
According to a July 19, 2026 report by Morocco World News, the school’s 38th graduation ceremony covered 109 graduates from the 2025/2026 academic year. The report says the class included the first group trained specifically in Amazigh translation, alongside the first graduates of a new Arabic-Chinese-English master’s program.
The same report cites school director Mohammed Kharchich as presenting the Amazigh track as part of Morocco’s longer effort to translate the constitutional recognition of Amazigh into practical institutional pathways. Morocco recognized Amazigh as an official language alongside Arabic in the 2011 constitution, but implementation has moved unevenly across education, administration, and public services.
Background material on the school’s official website reinforces the significance of the development. The Ecole Superieure Roi Fahd de Traduction describes itself as Morocco’s main specialized public institution for translation and interpretation and says it is organized around five language departments, including Amazigh, with eight training tracks in total.
For Amazigh-language advocates, the graduation matters less as a symbolic first than as evidence of professional pipeline-building. Training translators in Arabic, Amazigh, and French could eventually strengthen court access, public administration, publishing, education, and media work in Tamazight, provided the track is sustained and matched by hiring demand.
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