Memorial service for the writer Mohamed Tayeb Al-Suwairi

The National Association of Moroccan Poets and the Horizons for Culture and Heritage Association organized a memorial service today, Saturday, in the city of Essaouira, for the encyclopedic researcher and multi-talented writer, Mohamed Tayeb Souiri, who passed away in the past few months.

Regarding the honoree, Abdel Latif Al-Sabki, on behalf of the organizing body, said in a press statement that “this initiative came as a moment of gratitude for one of the towering intellectual figures who enriched the Moroccan treasury with many books and publications, the historian, encyclopedic researcher, and multi-talented writer, Professor Muhammad Tayeb Al-Suwairi.”

The same speaker added, “Throughout his rich academic career, the celebrated deceased accumulated a unique decade of solid works distributed between history, heritage (especially Al-Suwairi), poetry, literature, jurisprudence, religious thought, and the linguistic dictionary.”

For his part, the son of the honoree, Faris Tayeb Al-Suwairi, expressed his gratitude for this humanitarian step, which is imbued with a culture of recognition and good morals, adding that this initiative “restored the reputation of the scholar and jurist Muhammad Tayeb Al-Suwairi, which made the family members receive it with great joy, and it is an opportunity for the grandchildren of the deceased to learn about his abundant achievements.”

King Mohammed VI decorated the deceased with the Medal of Intellectual Excellence on April 18, 2007, in appreciation of his rich academic career.

During the memorial ceremony, testimonies were presented by a group of professors and researchers who were contemporaries of the honoree, in addition to a chanting interlude by the students of the Qadiriyya Zawiya under the supervision of the chanter and artist Hisham Dinar.

It is noteworthy that the deceased Mohamed Tayeb Souiri was born in the city of Essaouira (October 27, 1943). He published a poetry collection entitled “From the Inspiration of Essaouira.” He also wrote: poems, patriotic poems, personal poems, and scientific poems in logic. In addition, he has a diverse calendar of important manuscripts that have not yet found their way to publication, including “Usta Nawal Amazigh” or “Weaving the Amazigh Speech,” which is a linguistic dictionary consisting of 125 parts that he worked on for more than 60 years, and the book “The Traveler Who Knocks on the Ear of Every Perceptive Rationalist,” in addition to other productions.