The quarterly magazine “MAGHREB 1”, launched by the MAP Agency dedicated to Maghrebi cultural diversity, paid tribute in its sixth issue to Abdallah Ibrahim, President of the Moroccan Government Council from the end of 1958 to mid-1960.
Abdallah Ibrahim, great figure of the national movement, a progressive Moroccan politician and a professor of higher education, he held the post of Minister of Labor in the first post-independence government then that of Minister of Employment and Social Affairs in the second, two years later, he was appointed by King Mohammed V, President of the Government Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Consisting of 227 pages of small format, the MAP magazine is interested in the “Maghreb of the peoples”, by offering the reader sections highlighting the cultures, arts, traditions, heritage, cities of the Maghreb.
In its sections, the new magazine offers content as rich as it is diversified with articles focusing on history, North African cities, events, cinema, visual arts, portraits and reporting, there are also articles on music, female leadership, ecology, business, sport, religion, traditions, gastronomy, literature and fashion.
+ “The President of the Council who moved the lines” +
Entitled “Abdallah Ibrahim, praise of an impossible Maghreb”, Maghreb 1 first deals with one of the major works of the former president of the government council, namely “Against winds and tides”, the book was intended to originally, to analyze the Maghreb of the 1960s, starting from its history, because the region was already, at the time, in the grip of internal wars, which Ibrahim even accused of “stupid competition”, in spite of a common journey over more than 3,000 years that has forged an idiosyncratic identity that ultimately makes artificial, at least on a civilizational level, the borders drawn here and there.
Abdallah Ibrahim, is described as a man of challenges and difficult missions, he had “the posture and the height of view necessary to retrace three thousand years of evolution of the Maghreb with its ebbs and flows, its peaks and troughs, its successes and failures”.
According to the work written by journalist and writer Zakya Daoud entitled “Abdallah Ibrahim, the story of missed appointments? “, “some vaguely remember a politician, the oldest remember the President of the Council who, in the early 1960s, moved the lines”.
According to Daoud, Abdallah Ibrahim was “a humanist with an intransigent ethic who fought once morest all forms of inertia”, but also a man “distanced from traditions and religion, he reflected on history and on Islam and offered explosive reflections”.
To close the “Publications” section of the magazine, Daoud answers the question “What would Abdallah Ibrahim have said regarding the current state of the Maghreb”, the writer affirms that: “He would have been very sad. But as an ideologue and a pragmatist, he would say that the time has not yet come and that we must work tirelessly on a Maghreb construction imposed by geography and the economy”.
+ “Maghreb Women” +
In the “Women of the Maghreb” section, Maghreb 1 presents Lina Amel, a young 14-year-old writer who has just published her first book titled “Insert a title…”.
According to Lina, she discovered in class a penchant for the subject of written expression in French, so writing in the language of Molière, far from being a conscious choice, imposed itself. .
However, the young writer remains very humble “the fact of having published a book does not make me a more important person than my comrades”, indicates Lina.
For its “Face to face” section, the magazine chose to interview the researcher in Sufism and spiritual heritage, Yasmina Sbihi, architect and professor at the National School of Architecture in Rabat and at the Euro-Mediterranean University from Fes.
The renowned architect actually stresses that “Love is the essence of Islam”. A fascinating interview that sheds light on and shares “his spiritual vision of Sufism as science and therapy, his love for beauty, the sacred, ethics and aesthetics”.
Par Meryem Sbhi
