The First Gathering of African Arab Poets seeks to strengthen and explore the bond between Arab and African cultures with a special event for 14 poets from Africa and the Arab world, to be held in Morocco. The gathering will take place over three major poetry evenings and two seminars, which will be attended by poets and critics specialized in leading poetry seminars. At the end of the event, an anthology of the participating poets' work will be published along with a special feature on the gathering in the literary journal Bayt.