Cleopatra Lorintiu « Morocco »

Under the energetic King Mohammed VI, Morocco today easily combines great respect for its history and the strong political news, an intelligent and rewarding time to give the kingdom is able to satisfy major challenges of the contemporary world.

   His interest in the European Union and its privileged relationship with the Europeans gives us the impetus to look more closely, to know and deepen this knowledge. Going through the recent book "Morocco in motion. Le développement politique social et économique du Maroc . The social and economic development policy in Morocco. Réalisations 1999-2009 ) under the direction of Jean-Yves de Cara, Rouvillois Frederick and Charles Saint-Prot), CNRS Editions Geopolitical Studies Centre, Faculty of Law, Paris Descartes) and driven by a dear friend, journalist and essayist, a specialist in international politics, Ms. Zeina el Tibi, now I try to lean on Marco today, as I see it in books, articles and reports that I followed.
   But I can not ignore the experience in the field of literature and my travels in Morocco (1996 and 1997) when I saw the kingdom for the first time and I had the pleasure of filming to make stories that were broadcast on National Television Channel in Romania.

    The Roman ruins of Volubilis
 

Roman souvenirs of a Berber world

"Is it possible to imagine the Eternal City without the Empire's borders, without the ramifications of stone, traces of an ancient civilization which we look today, in a silence full of meaning and secrets a silence that comes to us after thousands of years.
  Here, pictures Sunset at Volubilis. Images full of history, these places so well kept, as a true museum of architecture.
  The Roman site of 40 hectares classified by UNESCO, is situated on a fertile plain, 30 km north of Meknes. Volubilis is the Roman site in Morocco may be the best preserved because it was one of colonial positions of the Roman Empire's most distant.
  Volubilis was founded by Carthaginian traders in the third century BC. AD, after it became an annex of the Roman Empire inhabited by almost 20,000 inhabitants.
 

The Romans abandoned Volubilis year 280 BC. AD, but its population consists of Greeks, Syrians and Berbers, continued to speak Latin, and even after the arrival of Islam.
(Small detail: some of the marble was salvaged for the construction of palaces in Meknes.) "(TV documentary: Volubilis, a Roman memories Berber)

(The film was shot in 1996 at Volubilis and released under the name "Morocco is a cultural space of interference on the National Romanian

              Moroccan History Pages

Les sites rupestres permettent d'attester, aujourd'hui, que les "pasteurs éleveurs de bœufs" étaient déjà à l'époque néolithique des Berbères. The rock art sites can attest, today, that the "shepherds of cattle ranchers" were already in the Neolithic of the Berbers.  The research also proves that writing Libyan (ancestor of Tifinagh), identified in the Atlas Mountains date from 3000.

Historians have expressed the idea of a mix: the settled inhabitants, known as the "paleo Berbers", which adjoin the two groups from the eastern Mediterranean: some blond and some black mixed race, from Nubia and East Africa.

 The "Maxys" bishops by the father of history, Herodotus as inhabitants of North Africa 5 - Century Av J. Ch. are " Imazighen "!

 Herodotus, the father of history, described elsewhere as "the silent barter" that Imazighen conducting with the Carthaginians, beyond the Pillars of Hercules. The evidence is lacking to demonstrate a Berber civilization.

  Documentary films made in Morocco in 1996 and 1997, following routes as Volubilis, Rabat, Casablanca, Meknes, Ifrane or telling encounters with interesting people like Ms. Francoise Fabian, who was editor and music critic music radio Rabat or M . Belghazi, the curator and owner of Museum Belghazi, who was at the time, the first personal museum  in the Kingdom of Morocco.
 

Emissions have also presented the history of the family Kossir from  Ifrane, which boys are almost all university studies in Romania and are now specialists in their field in Morocco, interviews with artists from Morocco, with  Romanian women  who married Moroccans and  now are living in the cities of Morocco or the cultural attaché at the time, Mr. Emilian Ioan (former Ambassador of Romania in Baghdad).

   The first series of tv reports (for 1996 and broadcast on public television Channel TVR1) was also accompanied by Romanian musicians who supported the concerts in Rabat, Casablanca, Ifrane, Tetouan, Meknes, Tangiers, Fez, representing musicians " Jeunesses Musicales Romania, "Musical foundation headed by Professor Luigi Gageos.