Ali Oumlil Arabic: علي أومليل | |
Office: | Extraordinary Ambassador Plenipotentiary |
Term Start: | 2000 |
Term End: | 2016 |
Office1: | Moroccan Ambassador to the Lebanese Republic |
Term Start1: | 2004 |
Term End1: | 2016 |
Office2: | Moroccan Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt |
Term Start2: | 2000 |
Term End2: | 2004 |
Office3: | Moroccan Ambassador to the League of Arab States |
Term Start3: | 2000 |
Term End3: | 2004 |
Office4: | President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights |
Term Start4: | 1996 |
Term End4: | 1998 |
Office5: | Secretary General of the Arab Thought Forum |
Term Start5: | 1992 |
Term End5: | 1996 |
Office6: | President of the Organisation marocaine des droits humains (OMDH) |
Term Start6: | 1990 |
Term End6: | 1993 |
Office7: | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Institute for Human Rights |
Term Start7: | 1989 |
Term End7: | 1993 |
Office8: | Co-Founder and President of the Association marocaine des droits humains |
Term Start8: | 1979 |
Term End8: | 1985 |
Birth Date: | 25 December 1940 |
Alma Mater: | University of Cairo Sorbonne University |
Ali Oumlil (Arabic: علي أومليل; born December 25, 1940) is a Moroccan philosopher, thinker, human rights activist, diplomat and political persona.
Ali Oumlil, born in Kenitra, Morocco in 1940, graduated from the University of Cairo with a Bachelor's Degree in philosophy in 1960. He then attended Sorbonne University and earned in 1977 a State Doctorate in Philosophy focusing on Ibn Khaldun methodology under the supervision of French scholar and Islamologist Roger Arnaldez[1] Ali Oumlil joined Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco in 1962 as an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Arab Thought.
In 1979, Oumlil co-founded the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) in Rabat, Morocco, and was its President until 1985. Oumlil went on to co-found the Moroccan Human Rights Organization (OMDH)[2] in 1988 and served as its President from 1990 to 1993. He also co-founded and was a Board Member of the Executive Committee of the Arab Human Rights Institute in Tunis, Tunisia from 1986 to 1994 and the President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Cairo, Egypt from 1996 to 1998.
In 1992, Ali Oumlil was nominated Secretary General of the Arab Thought Forum, an independent, intellectual, pan-Arab non-governmental organization established in 1981 by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, together with twenty-five leading Arab thinkers, decision-makers and development experts. ATF's mission is to study the current situation in the Arab World and its problems, as well as conducting studies and projects that would lead to practical solutions and viable options on issues such as unity, security, social and economic development, good governance, freedom, human dignity, human security, women empowerment, youth, intercultural and intellectual dialogue. Oumlil served as its Secretary General for 4 years.
Ali Oumlil was appointed in 2000 Extraordinary Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Arab Republic of Egypt[3] by His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco where he served until 2004. Concurrently, Oumlil was the Moroccan Ambassador to the League of Arab States.Upon the end of his tenure, Oumlil was appointed Extraordinary Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Lebanese Republic[4] where he served from September 2004 to October 2016.
2002 - Cairo, Egypt colloquium under the theme Ali Oumlil and the Arab Political Thought[5] with participants from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco.
2017 - Present: Board Member, Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, Lebanon.
2019 - Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences,[6] First Price for Social Sciences.
2019 - Present: Board Member, Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development,[7] Amman, Jordan.