Hashim Takadum, creator of “Cities and Villages of Morocco”

Yesterday night, Monday, in Rabat, the brand new work by author Mona Hashem, revealed below the title “Cities and Villages of Morocco… Origin, Historical past and Myths,” was offered inside the framework of the actions of the twenty ninth session of the Worldwide Publishing and Guide Honest, which continues till Might 19.

The e book, revealed in French, with the help of the Council of the Moroccan Neighborhood Overseas, comes within the type of a sensible and complete atlas with greater than 460 dictionary entries that embrace the names of all cities and villages throughout the nationwide territory, indicating their linguistic, historic and anthropological connections.

By way of this e book, the creator seeks to current the essential components for understanding the historical past of Morocco from the angle of place names, via analysis into the historical past of nomenclature, geography, way of life, reminiscence, and successive civilizations of those human gatherings. The creator furnished her e book with a group of attention-grabbing mythological tales and folks tales.

Hashim mentioned, in a speech on the event, that her ardour for touring all through the Kingdom and her many actions between the cities and villages of Morocco aroused her curiosity to know every part in regards to the origin of the names of those cities and villages. This prompted her to discover the depths of historical past searching for what she wanted.

The author added that she discovered herself going through “a scientific topic with a number of analysis dimensions, which have to be subjected to review from all angles,” highlighting that she adopted “a exact scientific methodology within the analysis and documentation course of,” adopting a “historic, anthropological, and geographical method.”

Hashim defined that the e book is taken into account an extra constructing block in her mental venture, which goals to introduce the historical past of Morocco, which extends for hundreds of years, noting that she seeks, via this work, to point out the extent of the historic depth of Moroccan civilization via correct historic documentation of reasonable occasions.

It’s noteworthy that Mona Hashim is a novelist and researcher in historical past. She holds a graduate diploma in comparative literature from Hassan II College in Casablanca. She is the creator of a number of books, together with “Walidat Al-Chaouia,” “Dictionary of Moroccan Surnames,” and “The Dazzling Historical past of Morocco.” And “The Misplaced Manuscripts,” and “Ibn Tumart, or The Final Days of the Masked Ones”…

Hashem participated in radio and tv documentary packages centered round cultural and architectural heritage, family tree and surnames in Morocco.

The twenty ninth session of the Worldwide Publishing and Guide Honest, organized by the Ministry of Youth, Tradition and Communication, in partnership with the prefecture of the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra area, the Rabat-Salé-Kenitra area and the Rabat commune, options the participation of 743 exhibitors representing 48 nations, providing readers 100,000 titles, in three million copies. , with discussions that embrace 241 cultural paragraphs.