Membership card of the International Student Friendship Club Zagreb belonging to Mr. Mahmoud Abu Hammad from 1980. It is visible that the card's design predates the club's move to Savska Street, as the old address is crossed out. The card includes a photograph of the member and features the name "International Student Friendship Club" in Croatian, English, French, Spanish, and (handwritten) Arabic.
Mr. Abu Hammad's membership card number is 2620, and there are visible staples indicating paid membership fees for the years 1981 and 1982. The Card also contains an excerpt from International Student Friendship Club Statute.
The International Student Friendship Club (Međunarodni studentski klub prijateljstva - MSKP) was established in 1962 by the Croatian Student Union in Zagreb as the first friendship club in Yugoslavia, in later years followed by a club in Belgrade, then Sarajevo, Skopje, Ljubljana and other cities. The first director of Zagreb’s MSKP was Špiro Badurina, a student from the island of Pag. The club was initially located at Tvrtkova Street 5, and in 1975 it was temporarily relocated to Pavilion N of the Zagreb Student Center, where it remained until it ceased to exist in the 1990s.
The MSKP was created to support the extracurricular needs of international students and to organize cultural and leisure activities for young people in Zagreb. The club brought together youth from both abroad and Croatia, becoming a space for internationalist education, intercultural exchange, and the fostering and expansion of friendship and cooperation among nations. One of the many activities organized by the International Student Friendship Club (MSKP) was the celebration of national holidays and cultural days of the countries represented by foreign students.
| Collection: | International Student Friendship Club |
| Donor | Mahmoud Abu Hammad |
| Researcher | Petra Matić |
| Year | 1982 |
| Decade | 1980-e |
| Location | Zagreb, Savska 25 |