The conclusion of the activities of the ninth session of the “Basheikh” festival in Tangier
On Saturday, January 14, in Tangier, the activities of the ninth session of the “Bacheikh” festival, organized by the “Amazigh Sanhaja Rif” association, to commemorate the Amazigh New Year 2973, were concluded.
The closing ceremony of the festival, which was held on Friday and Saturday under the slogan “Andalusia, a paradise of Moorish-Iberian cultural cross-pollination”, was marked by the organization of a second scientific symposium on “The Amazigh Linguistic Formations of the Sanhaja Sarayir Region”.
The Russian researcher, Evegeniya Gutova, who obtained the first doctoral dissertation on Amazigh Sanhaja Sarayer from the Sorbonne University in Paris, and who conducted a field study, stopped at the various common points between the dialects prevailing in the region.
The closing day was also marked by the presentation of poetry passages in the Amazigh language of Sanhaja Sarayer.
Sherif Dardak, festival director and head of the organizing association, confirmed that the selection of the theme for the ninth session came “for two considerations: the return of warmth to Moroccan-Spanish relations after the quasi-estrangement between the two countries in the last two years, as well as to correct the historical error regarding the exclusion of the important contribution of the Amazighs in building this civilization.”
He added that the ninth session of the festival tried to restore consideration for the forgotten and forged Amazigh history in Andalusia.
It is noteworthy that the first day of the festival witnessed the organization of an international scientific symposium on “The Contribution of the Amazighs to the Building of the Civilization of Andalusia”, in which a group of researchers and academics from Morocco, Spain and France participated.
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