Ratitbi recalls the echo of Rijalat Ouzane

With tones that blended the authenticity of art and the tradition of singing, the instruments of the “teachers” sounded and melodious voices rang out with sweet poems that entertained the audience of the city of Ouazzane during the presentation and signing ceremony of the book “In the Rehab of Ouazzane, Men I Knew Closely” by its author, Sherif Rettibi, a researcher in modern and contemporary history and heritage.

The ceremony, which was attended by media professionals, academics, and associational and political events, represented an opportunity for the discerning and eager audience to embrace the instrument’s music and learn about the literary and scientific publications. This is the date during which the organizers seek to revive and strengthen the cultural act, in addition to devoting a culture of recognition and gratitude and encouraging the act of writing and authorship.

Muhammad Fahd Al-Bash, on behalf of the organizer, said that this ceremony comes within the framework of the cultural activities that the Forum is keen to organize from time to time in order to ensure that the men of Wazzan are introduced to current and future generations and to establish a culture of recognition.

Al-Bash added that the cultural date constitutes a purely ministerial meeting with the aim of opening a serious and responsible discussion with the ministerial competencies regarding the reality of development in the city with the aim of moving its wheel culturally and improving its conditions.

For his part, Dr. Sharif Ratitbi, the author of the celebrated book, said that the publication is a historical document and an intellectual biography of notables from Ouazzane, evoking the city’s historical, social and cultural specificity in the old days of Ouazzane, with the aim of reminding current and future generations of the pioneering roles played by this metropolis.

The researcher in modern and contemporary history and heritage added that the book can be considered electronic literature, given that a small part of it floated in the electronic world and on the pages of social networking sites before it was published in a paper copy at the request and insistence of its followers and acquaintances, indicating that paper is eternal beauty and eternity. .

The same spokesman explained that the date constitutes an opportunity for discussion, dialogue, and exchange of ideas with the intellectual elite of the previous and current generations, an impetus for cultural and collective work, and a new page at various levels and walks of life.

Through his book, the writer Al-Rutaibi seeks to restore part of the echo of life in a city that had a reputation that spread throughout the world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, until the French forces entered it in 1920.

This book aims to remind the current generations and introduce them to the ancient history of the city, the social and cultural momentum it knew, and the efforts made to overcome the challenges of reality, based on its cultural peculiarities, human competencies, and geographical advantages, with the aim of moving towards the broad horizons of the future.

The writer made a great effort to achieve this goal, as a researcher for information and ensuring its credibility, before involving others in learning about it. What increases interest in what he wrote is that this scrutiny of description, information, and commentary makes the content of this author create a lot of suspense. Moreover, the writer has broadcast in his work many topics that impress the reader with their content, the sincerity of their feelings, the depth of their references and revelations, and the flow of their description in time and place, with a common denominator that is raising awareness of the past, its social value and its human relations, to be one of the tools and mechanisms for advancing the present and anticipating and building the future.

Dr. Sharif Al-Rutaibi’s nostalgia for the past in this book does not at all coincide with the saying, “It is not possible to be better than it was.” Rather, it is a contemplative look in good faith, with which the writer is betting on strengthening the local and national library.

It is noteworthy that the ceremony was born in partnership between the Regional Directorate of Culture in Tetouan and the Youth Forum for the Third Millennium, and the media and journalist Saeed Koubrit and Professor Mekki El-Tohamy participated in its activities.