Algiers, July 23, 2012 (SPS) - “The Cultural and media fronts are the most important fronts in the resistance against Moroccan occupation in the light of cease-fire,” underlined Sunday in Algiers the Minister of Culture Ms. Khadija Hamdi.
“Culture and the media should have a megaphone in light of the war currently stopped by UN-AU peace project and the cease-fire between the Polisario Front and Morocco,” the Minister told Algerian Press Agency (APS), on the sidelines of a graduation ceremony held in Moufdi Zakaria Palace of Culture in Algiers to distribute certificates for Saharawi students who had attended different training sessions.
“The Saharawi people are waging a war of liberation and resistance required all the necessary fronts to resists the occupation. There are a political, diplomatic and cultural front, as well as a media front which currently considered the most important one,” she indicated.
“Morocco has a systematic political plans aiming to contain and frame the Saharawi culture within Moroccan cultural mosaic, especially by smearing its features at both the archaeological or at Hassani arts level, also through framing the Hassani Dialect within Moroccan Constitution,” pointed out Ms. Khadijja Hamdi.
“This requires that cultural trainers of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic be aware about the importance of this front, because, she added, we should seek to frame the cultural act and defend characteristics of the Saharawi cultural identity including dialect, clothing and protection of archeological landmarks. A cultural resistance has been waging by the Saharawi Ministry of Culture for years,” she underlined.
The Minister expressed on other hand deep gratitude to Algerian State for providing, for the first time, an opportunity of cultural framing and configuration for a group of young Saharawis in different sectors, including music, theatre, museums and libraries.
She also appreciated in this regard the assistance provided by Algeria in the field of configuration and framing the Saharawi manpower that is able to enhance the cultural act, noting particularly to the promotion of Saharawi National School of Music and the support to Saharawi national and local cultural festivals.
Ms. Khadija Hamdi said “the most important of this support is in the area of printing books, which was a bet for the Saharawi Ministry of Culture, where thanks to it Saharawi writers and poets could publish their books.”
“Results of this support will appear in the future, when those young people return back to their country, where they will bring a new spirit based on experience and on scientific training foundations to their institutions, pointing out that this cultural cooperation, first of its kind, is the foundation stone of a project to be continued in the future.” (SPS)
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