The University of Oujda celebrates the writer Ahmed Bozfour

Today, Saturday, the Call of Peace Hall at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences in Oujda hosted an open meeting with the pioneer of the short story in Morocco, the writer Ahmed Bouzfour.

The meeting, organized by the Moroccan Cultural and Human Development Team at the Culture Industry, Communication and Sociological Research Strategies Laboratory at the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences – Mohammed I University in Oujda, in cooperation with the Orient Agency, comes within the framework of the activities of the fourth session of the Maghreb Book Fair held in the city of Oujda.

The meeting was an opportunity for university students and those interested in short stories in the Eastern Region to get closer to the worlds of short stories by Ahmed Bozfour, known in the literary arena as Sinbad.

This creative meeting with Bozfor was attended by Dr. Al-Hussein Oshni, Dean of the College of Arts, and his deputies, along with storyteller Mustafa Jabbari, head of the short story research group, college professors, students, and those interested in short stories in the Eastern Region.

At the opening of the meeting, Dr. Yahya Emara, Director of the Culture and Communication Industry Strategies and Sociological Research Laboratory, presented an introductory overview of Ahmed Bozfour, whom he described as “the philosopher of literature, the knight of narration, and Sinbad the short story,” before providing a brief reading of his literary works since his first texts that he published in the newspaper. Science.

The Moroccan writer then shared decades of creative narrative experience with college students, through his own paper, which he labeled “The Joyful Pains of Writing and Drops of Creativity,” where the creator revealed his vision of the story and the formations of creative writing, highlighting his belief in “free writing, without a prior plan to write.” A story full of joyful pain.”

As for the pains of writing, according to Bozfour, they are those that establish his creative style. He describes this as the pain of the letter and the ability of meaning letters to direct the story and its connotations, then the pain of rhythm, which forms the basis of the story, which is not complete with grammar alone, then the pain of language and words, in a celebration of language, dialect, and memory. Collectivism and the synonyms of the word and its meanings that stem from another pain, which the creator Ahmed Bozfour described as “the pain of the basement and the absence of the heart and the meaning in building the story.”

Bosphorus continued his talk about the pain of the ending, which in his view is “a bandage on a wound and not a sign of creative victory” in the face of a story overflowing with another pain, which is the pain of the title, that other obstacle that directs connotation and reading. The title of the story, as he put it, is “It is as if you were building a cage for a bright, beautiful, and elegant nightingale.”

At the end of the meeting, Ahmed Bozfour interacted with the students’ questions regarding the relationship between poetry, stories, and cinema, and ways to compose the worlds of short stories. He revealed that stories always benefit from poetry, so he advised young people to read poetry. “Writing was originally poetry,” he said, expressing in conclusion his regret. Because cinema people are not interested in the short story and are working to transform its worlds into scenarios and films.