CMAM :: Center of Arab and Meditarranean Music

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Promulgation in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic (n^o40 of 13 June 1989) of the decree (n^o577 dated 29 may 1989) listing the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace as a historical monument.

The decree imposes a set of restrictions on the property, prohibiting any modification to the external or internal architectural aspect of the palace or its decoration or any rearrangement of the gardens and renders maintenance and the conservation of the property in its original state mandatory.

The proposal to list the Palace was put forward by the municipality of Sidi Bou Said by letter of 3 June 1988 addressed to the National Art and Archaeology Institute (INAA, the present National Heritage Institute). The procedure was provided for by law n^o86-35 of 9 May 1986 relative to the protection of archaeological properties, historical monuments and urban natural sites. The application for listing was drawn up in August 1988 by the INAA in cooperation with the Association for the Conservation of the Medina of Tunis. The listing commission met on 9 September 1988. The property is located within a listed district (decree 85/1246 of 7 October 1985).

20 December 1991

During an inner ministerial council meeting devoted to the Ennejma Ezzahra Palace (Maison du Baron d’Erlanger) President Ben Ali ordered the creation in the said palace of a multidisciplinary institution devoted to music, to be known as the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music and which would have both an Arab and a Mediterranean dimension.

The council also decided the creation of a steering committee to oversee the implementation of the project. The committee presided by poet, painter and playwright Ali Louati, included lutenist Anouar Brahem, audio-visual documentation specialist, Hatem Touil, architect Lotfi Bou Zouita

( representing the National Agency for the Promotion of Heritage, Islamic history researcher Rachid Ghrib (representing the National Institute of Heritage) as well as a representative of the Ministry of Equipment.

28 November 1992

Inauguration of the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music by the President of the Republic.

29 December 1992

Promulgation in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic of law n° 122 dated 29 december1992 relating to the State budget for the year 1993 . Article 63 of the said law refers (for the first time in an official legal document ) to the CAMM.

29 November 1993

First concert given in the Ennejma Ezzahra palace after the CAMM’s inauguration.

29 November 1993

The first sound recording published by the CAMM is released. The record, entitled Tarab, was a tribute from Ennejma Ezzahra to the master lute player Ali Sriti.

10 October 1994

Promulgation in the Official Gazette of the Tunisian Republic of the decree (n^o94-2137) relative to the organisation and the management of the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music – Baron d’Erlanger’s Palace of Sidi Bou Said.

October 1994

Inauguration of the Tunisian National Sound Archive by the Minister of Culture.

29 November 1997

The Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music was awarded the UNESCO based International Music Council’s prize

26 February 2007

Appointment of Dr. Mourad Sakli as Director of the CAMM.( in fact Dr. Sakli has headed

the CAMM as of February 2002, as acting Director, following his appointment as Deputy Director in charge of the National Sound Archive