H.J. Patterson Hall Atrium
1126 Campus Drive
College Park, MD 20742
United States
This event is sponsored by the JEDI Collective and open to the public.
On Friday, September 8 at 11 pm (local time), a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Hight Atlas Mountains in Morocco and took 2,900 lives.
Moroccan students and staff across the University of Maryland are hosting a Moroccan reception and movie screening on Monday, September 25 at 5 pm, at the H.J Patterson Hall Atrium, hoping to raise funds for the Morocco Earthquake relief.
Moroccan tea and cookies will be provided at the 5 pm reception, and the movie "Al Massira: la Marche Verte" (the Green March) will follow. The movie depicts the historic Green March in November 1975, where a 350,000 civilians marched into the Southern Moroccan territory of the Sahara desert, to gain the then Spanish Sahara territory. The movie will be played in Arabic and French, with English subtitles.