Dakar’s American Information Center Partners with a Senegalese Islamic Educational Institution
The Dakar American Information Center (AIC) hosted two library interns from the Al Azhar Institute in Touba. Al Azhar is the educational institution of the important Mouride Islamic Brotherhood in Senegal. Two staff members from the institute spent a week at the AIC learning the basics of library management and learning to use IIP’s Arabic language resources, gathering information on Islam in America, as well as information on health, education and business.