{"id":11551,"date":"2025-04-03T21:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:45:55","slug":"sahrawi-writers-journalists-and-literati-union-moroccan-occupation-persists-in-erasing-sahrawi-cultural-identitychahid-el-hafed-sahrawi-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=11551","title":{"rendered":"Sahrawi Writers, Journalists, and Literati Union: Moroccan Occupation Persists in Erasing Sahrawi Cultural IdentityChahid El Hafed (Sahrawi Refugee Camps)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahmed Mohamed Nafai, Secretary-General of the Sahrawi Writers, Journalists, and Literati Union, affirmed that the Moroccan occupation continues its efforts to erase Sahrawi cultural identity by targeting its rich history and heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement reported Thursday by the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS), Nafai noted that these attempts &#8220;go beyond erasing Sahrawi memory to distorting their culture\u2014a core element of the Sahrawi people\u2019s existence\u2014requiring unity and cooperation to confront and protect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of preserving Sahrawi cultural heritage, describing it as &#8220;an integral part of national identity and a living memory,&#8221; warning that its loss would sever the historical link between generations, threatening the cultural foundation of the Sahrawi people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nafai called these actions &#8220;a colonial assault aimed at wiping out Sahrawi cultural landmarks and destroying ancestral legacies,&#8221; urging urgent measures to safeguard this heritage. He emphasized that &#8220;Sahrawis must take responsibility for preserving their legacy,&#8221; advocating collaboration with cultural committees, libraries, and modern technology to document and pass it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He praised achievements like the publication of poetry collections by Beibouh El Hajj and Sid Ibrahim Ajdoud, calling them &#8220;vital steps in raising cultural awareness and shielding Sahrawi poetry from ongoing attempts to diminish or marginalize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concluding, Nafai underscored that protecting Sahrawi heritage is a collective duty requiring unified efforts from all stakeholders, adding that &#8220;every contribution, no matter how small, helps counter the occupation\u2019s attempts to erase Sahrawi identity and ensure its survival for future generations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Mohamed Nafai, Secretary-General of the Sahrawi Writers, Journalists, and Literati Union, affirmed that the Moroccan occupation continues its efforts to erase Sahrawi cultural identity by targeting its rich history and heritage. In a statement reported Thursday by the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS), Nafai noted that these attempts &#8220;go beyond erasing Sahrawi memory to distorting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11552,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11551\/revisions\/11552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}