Culture is being celebrated amazigh In several regions, north and south of Tunisia, including the island of Djerba, the cities of Sfax, Tunis, Matmata and the coastal regions.
Amazigh culture is embodied by employing its symbols in dress, utensils and tattoos, and passing its words into popular songs and poems.
In an interview with the site "Sky News Arabia"Mariam Bribri, a fashion designer who specializes in dress inspired by the Amazigh heritage, said that she works in her designs to polish the image of the buried Amazigh heritage.
Briberry added that she noticed "Tunisians wear simple and light traditional clothes that volunteer Amazigh shapes and symbols, such as the olive tree, wheat grains, and the ship, which symbolizes strength, freedom, beauty, food sovereignty, and the sanctity of olives and wheat in North Africa.".
Follow up: "I use Amazigh tattoos as an adornment accompanying these clothes so that they do not disappear, and I write the story of every Berber tattoo in Amazigh culture. I think I succeeded in attracting the attention of young people "For a coffee" The Tunisian, which is originally the dress of the peasants, has also revived the letters of the Berber language by drawing them on clothes".
For her part, Amazigh activist and singer Sahar Al-Dali Amanis said that she has chosen music to introduce the Amazigh language since 2015, as she repeated old Moroccan and Tunisian songs in the Amazigh language, then in turn wrote texts that sing of the land and the homeland and appeared to the audience in the name of the Amazigh Amanis, which means the rose.
The head of the Tunisian Association for Amazigh Culture, Kilani Bouchahoua, confirmed in statements to the website "Sky News Arabia" They work in civil society to defend the Amazigh heritage in the country with a group of people who are jealous of the Amazigh identity, and they are keen, during their activities, to preserve the mother language and the material and intangible heritage.
And Bouchohwa stated that: "Most of the vocabulary of the Tunisian dialect belongs to the Berber language, as well as the most famous dishes such as "couscous" And"burbock" of Amazigh origins, calling on the authorities to recognize Tamazight as an essential component of the Tunisian personality by preserving the language and architecture from extinction and adhering to the recommendations of the United Nations, especially since the Amazigh heritage is evident in all aspects of life, and hundreds of thousands of people in different parts of the country transmit the Amazigh language and families pass it on through generations.
She also called on the head of the Tamont Association, Noha Qurain, not to neglect the Amazigh culture and consider it mere folklore because it expresses authenticity and nourishes the daily culture, stressing the need to empower women working in traditional crafts to manufacture antique products, work on the maintenance of Berber villages and classify them within the national heritage, and allow families to name newborns. Amazigh names.
According to the researcher in Amazigh civilization, Dr. Fathi bin Muammar, the Berber presence is not new in Tunisia, but dates back to more than ten thousand years, when the Berbers lived in the Great Maghreb and left their distinctive character in civilization, noting that seventy percent of the Tunisian dialect is of Berber origin.
Bin Muammar said that studies have proven that many of the customs and traditions related to food, dress, jewelry and the nature of tattoos for mothers are of Berber origin, but a large part of them disappeared during the building of the national state and the formation of the modern Tunisian state until it turned into folklore that is presented to tourists only.
Ben Muammar stressed that the interest in the Amazigh heritage came back to the fore with a generation of young people who produced books on Amazigh culture, academic research, a lexicon in the mother tongue, and tales from the Amazigh heritage and songs. Tunisian society does not pose any problems if it is well managed.
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Researchers confirm Heritage that Tunisian customs There is a lot of Amazigh heritage, especially in its aspects related to food, dress, celebration customs, and traditions of agricultural activities.
Culture is being celebrated amazigh In several regions, north and south of Tunisia, including the island of Djerba, the cities of Sfax, Tunis, Matmata and the coastal regions.
Amazigh culture is embodied by employing its symbols in dress, utensils and tattoos, and passing its words into popular songs and poems.
In an interview with “Sky News Arabia”, the fashion designer specialized in dress inspired by the Amazigh heritage, Maryam Bribri, said that she is working in her designs to polish the image of the buried Amazigh heritage.
Bribery added that she had noticed “the Tunisians’ demand for simple and light traditional clothes that volunteer Amazigh shapes and symbols, such as the olive tree, wheat grains, and the ship, which symbolizes strength, freedom, beauty, food sovereignty, and the sanctity of olives and wheat in North Africa.”
And she continued, “I use Amazigh tattoos as an adornment accompanying these clothes so that they do not disappear, and I write the story of every Berber tattoo in the Amazigh culture. I think I succeeded in attracting the attention of young people to the Tunisian “kachabiya”, which is originally the dress of the peasants, as I revived the Amazigh letters by drawing them on clothes.”
For her part, Amazigh activist and singer Sahar Al-Dali Amanis said that she has chosen music to introduce the Amazigh language since 2015, as she repeated old Moroccan and Tunisian songs in the Amazigh language, then in turn wrote texts that sing of the land and the homeland and appeared to the audience in the name of the Amazigh Amanis, which means the rose.
The head of the Tunisian Association for Amazigh Culture, Kilani Bouchahoua, confirmed in statements to “Sky News Arabia” that they are working in civil society to defend the Amazigh heritage in the country with a group of people who are jealous of the Amazigh identity, and are keen during their activities to preserve the mother language and the material and intangible heritage.
Bouchahoua indicated that: “Most of the vocabulary of the Tunisian dialect belongs to the Amazigh language, and the most famous dishes such as “couscous” and “Barboukush” are of Amazigh origins, calling on the authorities to recognize Tamazight as an essential component of the Tunisian personality by preserving the language and architecture from extinction and adhering to the recommendations of the United Nations, especially since The Amazigh heritage is evident in all aspects of life, as hundreds of thousands of people in different parts of the country pass on the Amazigh language and families pass it on through generations.
She also called on the head of the Tamont Association, Noha Qurain, not to neglect the Amazigh culture and consider it mere folklore because it expresses authenticity and nourishes the daily culture, stressing the need to empower women working in traditional crafts to manufacture antique products, work on the maintenance of Berber villages and classify them within the national heritage, and allow families to name newborns. Amazigh names.
According to the researcher in Amazigh civilization, Dr. Fathi bin Muammar, the Berber presence is not new in Tunisia, but dates back to more than ten thousand years, when the Berbers lived in the Great Maghreb and left their distinctive character in civilization, noting that seventy percent of the Tunisian dialect is of Berber origin.
Bin Muammar said that studies have proven that many of the customs and traditions related to food, dress, jewelry and the nature of tattoos for mothers are of Berber origin, but a large part of them disappeared during the building of the national state and the formation of the modern Tunisian state until it turned into folklore that is presented to tourists only.
Ben Muammar stressed that the interest in the Amazigh heritage came back to the fore with a generation of young people who produced books on Amazigh culture, academic research, a lexicon in the mother tongue, and tales from the Amazigh heritage and songs. Tunisian society does not pose any problems if it is well managed.