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Beneath the theme “Crossed views: Edmond Amran El Maleh, a Thought that challenges us”, this convention organized by the Edmond Amran El Maleh Basis in coordination with the Ministry of Youth, Tradition and Communication, introduced collectively main names from the Moroccan cultural scene, associates of the deceased and connoisseurs of his work.
Moderated by Professor Driss Khrouz, the Advisor to His Majesty the King, André Azoulay, the novelist, poet and former Minister of Tradition Mohamed Achaari and the researcher Mohamed Habib Samrakandi, testified to the completely different facets of their journeys alongside Edmond Amran El Maleh, highlighting his eclectic writing, his philosophy of life and his militant nationalism.
“A valuable and demanding touring companion, enlightened mentor and pioneer, Edmond Amran El Maleh would have been with us the happiest Moroccans on this lovely month of Could 2024 in the course of these tens of hundreds of tourists of all generations from throughout Morocco to have fun the E-book, to hear and to debate round all books,” declared Mr. Azoulay, paying tribute to the Ministry of Tradition for the unprecedented success of this version of SIEL “wealthy with essentially the most lovely guarantees for our nation in the present day ‘in the present day and tomorrow’.
“A gifted singer, dedicated and activist for range, EA Elmaleh would even have this night taken with us and with pleasure the fitting measure of the historic momentum that our nation is experiencing with regard to the legitimacy and richness of all our diversities, now supported by a nationwide consensus which is on the coronary heart of the management of our nation whereas the illusions of exclusion, withdrawal into id and denial of the opposite flourish throughout us”, underlined the Advisor to HM the King.
Recalling to conclude “that he had shared with EA Elmaleh the love and fervour for Essaouira”, Mr. Azoulay reiterated to him “his infinite gratitude for essentially the most lovely pages that he wrote on this souirie saga and his enlightened Judaism which taught us each very early on in addition to many others that it’s by guaranteeing the dignity and freedom of the opposite who was in entrance of us and who was not Jewish that the sustainability, ethics and philosophical and social modernity of Moroccan Judaism had been formed and nourished.”
For his half, Mr. Achaari praised the “poetic strategy” characterizing the work of this “thinker of values and life”.
In his eyes, the writing of Edmond Amran El Maleh shouldn’t be primarily based “on life” however “it’s life fairly merely motivated by the search for freedom, discovery and protection of simply causes”.
Along with his dedication to the Palestinian trigger, Mr. Achaari cited the attachment of this nice Moroccan Jewish mental to the reminiscence of Moroccan Judaism inside the framework of an strategy targeted on the connection between the current and the long run, and never oriented in the direction of the previous.
Habib Samrakandi, who makes an “act of perpetual friendship” with Edmond Amran El Maleh, shared with the viewers extracts from his writings which testify to the variety of Moroccan society, the place “it’s not a query of dwelling collectively or not the identical faith however fairly a typical future”.
Moroccan society is symbolized by “a trunk which has ramifications in every phrase, every sentence, every textual content”, he famous.
Moderator Driss Khrouz had outlined three axes for these shared views on the “complicated” work of Edmond Amran El Maleh, specifically “the which means”, “the location, within the anthropological sense of the time period (actors, topics)” and “ the popularity of Moroccanness in range”.
A worthy descendant of a big Souirie household and born in Safi in 1917, Edmond Amran El Maleh, who died in Rabat in 2010, is a vital determine within the Moroccan literary panorama, to which he was deeply connected. Professor of philosophy, he’s the creator of Parcours motionless (1980), Aïlen or the night time of the story (1983), A thousand years, at some point (1986) and The Return of Abou El Haki (1990).
The twenty ninth version of the Worldwide E-book Honest (Could 9-19) dedicates a stand in tribute to the reminiscence of the Moroccan author and mental Edmond Amran El Maleh, who marked the literary scene along with his works and actively contributed to the enrichment of the cultural range of the Kingdom.
2024-05-19 13:04:06