The president of the Tunisian Association of Amazigh Culture, Khadija Ben Saidane, called on the next Constituent Assembly to recognize the Amazigh presence in the next Tunisian constitution, and to include the teaching of Amazigh in schools and schools at least as an optional language in the curriculum of the baccalaureate year. This call came after the announcement on Saturday (30 July) of the birth of the Tunisian Association of Amazigh Culture, the first Amazigh culture association known to Tunisia in its modern history, aimed at recognizing Amazigh as a key component of Tunisian identity and rehabilitating their history by reviving their material and intangible heritage In addition to preserving Amazigh customs and traditions and preserving the architectural character of Tunisian villages of Amazigh nature.
"The Amazigh community has not disappeared from the Tunisian culture despite the attempts to obliterate it and its absence from the previous regime," said Jelloul Gharki, secretary general of the association. Working to preserve Tunisian Amazigh customs and traditions.
"Our objectives are to publicize the Amazigh cultural heritage of Tunisia at home and abroad, to value it and to use it in the service of economic, social and cultural development, especially in the Amazigh-speaking regions," he added.
To rid Tunisia's Amazigh heritage, culture and language of stereotypes and prejudices concerning its actors. As well as contributing to the building of an integrated Tunisian culture based on diversity, diversity and participation and without exclusion or marginalization, as well as working to preserve the architectural character of all Tunisian villages of an Amazigh character, and to include them in the UNESCO list of World Human Heritage and the inventory of Amazigh museums in Tunisia, highlight and structure and work to develop and promote them ".
"The number of Amazighs in Tunisia does not exceed 100,000," said Khadija Ben Saidane, president of the association. Besides furnishing various activities to introduce the Amazigh movement in Tunisia and the Maghreb. The Amazigh minority in Tunisia is divided into several mountain villages in the south, such as the village of Matmata (400 km southeast of the capital) and Gafsa (35 km southwest), as well as the southernmost province of Tataouine and Djerba Island.
A number of social activists have launched a campaign on social media for months to include two chapters in the new constitution. The first states that Tunisia is a free, independent, sovereign state, Islam is its religion, Arabic is its language, and the Republic is its system. The second chapter calls for the Tunisian state to recognize and develop Amazigh culture and language as a component of national identity. They called on the decision-makers to "assume their full historical responsibilities by ensuring that the two chapters are included in the new constitution of Tunisia so that the post-revolutionary Tunisia will be a truly democratic democracy in which all Tunisians can live without exclusion or marginalization."
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