Amazigh women of Tunisia: We do not recognize anyone other than the Amazigh identity, culture and belonging in our country of origin
The celebration of the National Day of traditional dress was not like other national and official occasions in Tunisia. Those who stole the cameras of foreign and Tunisian photographers and journalists to gather around them to take pictures, statements and interviews and to ask questions. The women of the Amazigh movement were at the level of answering and queens of dialogue...
In the beginning, she murmured. This is how Kahina Talbi, who supervised the demonstration, told me the story of her arrest for two hours at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior because she submitted the request for a permit for the pause in the Amazigh language, saying: “The agents of the Ministry of Interior thought that what he wrote was in the Hebrew language.. and after my interrogation, they understood that the request was written.” Tifinagh is the language of our first ancestors, and then they gave me approval for the demonstration .. which I supervised with me, Yousri Kronnit, Hajar Barbana, and all the activists of the Amazigh cause in Tunisia.
” Since six in the morning, Kahina Talbi, Hajar Barbana, and Faten Basbas were in Habib Bourguiba Street dressing the girls, explaining the Amazigh dress with a charming smile, with an observant eye, in anticipation of the arrival of the Salafis or supporters of the Arab nationalist movements in Tunisia.
In the words of Hajar Barbana: I am a Tunisian Amazigh woman. I review the history of Tunisia and she is in the process of discussing with a supporter of the Ennahda movement when he came to provoke her with his treacherous manner... But Hajar's resounding voice and her red dress embroidered with Amazigh inscriptions drew the attention of passers-by to her and made her opponent leave the street in anger. And curse us.
In a manner proud of his country, Hajar confronted Tunisia's quarrelsome journalist Hala Thawadi, who wanted to provoke her with her bold questions, to which Tahia's granddaughter replied: We are here for a free Tunisia, proud of its great past, rejecting any project that wants to uproot us from our original roots. West Harm Lake .. We are from this land only.
Professor Faten Besbas was carrying the Amazigh flag and was walking forward, with her golden hair, blue eyes, and her usual pride. Women and young men stopped her to take pictures with the flag and asked her: Are you Amazigh? And you answer them: I am from Sfax, and I am the granddaughter of Sifax the Amazigh, and I defend my identity and I want to protect this heritage that is threatened with loss....
As for Mrs. Sarah Khalafallah, who used to put on her head the Tunisian nightmare, or they call it the constitutional nightmare, a symbol of the militants of the national movement for the independence of Tunisia, she emphasized that the Amazigh culture is a unifying factor for Tunisian culture, and the Tunisian cultural issue cannot be promoted without it.
Sabreen Al-Zawaghi, Hala Laroussi and other girls broke the saying of being beautiful and shut up... How does Sabreen remain silent, that ?young woman who does not have an Amazigh tattoo on her chin
And how does Hala, who carries the Amazigh Hawli on her shoulders, remain silent? For this reason, the Tamazights turned the scales on the national day of the traditional country to become a day celebrating Tenest, a land of Latihia and a line of resistance and Amazigh resistance led by women from another world.. the world of dignity, beauty, love and resistance.. the Amazigh world alien to the minds of the Mujahideen of Marriage and the urine of the camel .
Written by: Tunisian Amazigh human rights activist Maha Jouini
Source: websites