Towards Forgetting…an initiative that preserves the reminiscence of the founders of the Spanish lesson on the Moroccan College

Generations of professors who established the find out about of Spanish in Moroccan universities are commemorated by way of a brand new ebook printed this December in roughly 500 pages, ready by way of two college professors, Ahmed Saber and Ahmed Ben Ramadan.

Titled “A Tribute to Retired Spanish Professors from Moroccan Universities,” this ebook is printed in Spanish on the personal expense of its authors, with a view to keep the reminiscence of educational engagement with the Spanish language, tradition, and literature within the Kingdom.

In a remark to the digital newspaper Hespress, Ahmed Saber, one of the most college scholars supervising the ebook, stated: “His number one and number one reason is reminiscence. As a result of, sadly, we fail to remember, and the most efficient factor that may be achieved to fight forgetfulness is writing and writing, or somewhat writing and pictures.”

He added: “We determined to chronicle a bunch that laid the principles for educating the Spanish language in Morocco and went directly to retire, a few of them had been commemorated and a few remained within the shadows, if no longer in whole oblivion; The objective, then, is to keep reminiscence and recognize gratitude, as a result of it’s simple to search out one thing ready-made within the Moroccan college, however it isn’t simple to bear in mind the primary construction blocks, the phases of laying them, and people who laid them.”

The declarant endured: “This ebook comes within the type of a collective tribute to all retired college professors in all Moroccan universities. I labored with two colleagues on the College of Fez (…) and the end result got here within the type of a memorial and honor via easy problems that don’t price the retired professor a lot, i.e. an image in order that readers can acknowledge him.” From those that accompanied him and the scholars who got here after him, and a short lived biography in two pages, and we requested every retired professor to supply us with the most efficient article that represents him in his strong point, whether or not concerning the historical past of Spain. Or linguistics, or literature… and the end result was once very comfy.”

In regards to the overdue professors, Ahmed Saber said that the ebook handled their reminiscence “by way of returning to the archives, the images we discovered, what was once written about them, and what we wrote about them. Amongst them is the professor of Spanish grammar and philology in Rabat, Simon Levy, and the professors Abdallah Gebelo, Abdellatif Benabdelkader, and Mohamed Khallaf… All of those we attempted to go away an imprint on within the reminiscence ebook,” whilst “no longer forgetting the foreigners, Spanish and French, who had been initially within the first divisions in Morocco.” And on most sensible of them are Rabat and Fez.

The declarant defined that “the Spanish language and tradition in Morocco didn’t originate best on the college; Fairly, there have been researchers and writers who wrote within the Spanish language out of doors the college,” however methodologically, “we determined within the ebook, as a degree, to allocate it to retired Spanish professors from Moroccan universities, particularly those who have a Spanish division, realizing that there are universities through which the Spanish language is distinctively provide in spite of the absence of a division.” Similar to the colleges of Oujda, Mohammedia and Nador.”