In the south -east of Morocco, Eid Al -Fitr, similar to Eid Al -Adha, is always a sacred spiritual and social station in which souls revive the values of solidarity and uterus link.
However, these former rituals are faced with growing challenges, due to several constraints, including high prices, which exhausted the pockets of families, as well as the ride of modern technology, which changed communication and relationships until the “family bunch” becomes threatened with corrosion.
The inhabitants of the Southeast, in Ouarzazate, Zagora and Tanghir, Al -rashidiya, Tatta, Fejij and other regions, insist on adhering to their social and spiritual roots, defying a difficult reality imposed by economic and social transformations, in an attempt to preserve the remaining “flavor” of the old party where the warm family, simplicity and joy.
In popular markets, traders and citizens suffer from a wave of high costs of everything, prices for clothes, candies, vegetables and meat to the requirements of hospitality, where Hajj Idris Benaisi, a traditional merchant of the city of Ouarzazate, says that “the people of the prostitute are exclusively, but the pocket is empty … Nevertheless, Kaen, The joy of the day. “
For her part, Naima After Me, who specializes in the sale of candies in the city of Tinghir, said that he was parallel to the Aid Al -Fitr, he notes a clear drop in the demand for traditional local products such as “bouquets” and the “heel of the deer” made for the benefit of ready -to -use candies that invade stores.
The spokesperson added, in his statement to Hespress, that several factors contribute to the disappearance of a certain number of old customs and traditions of the party, adding that this shows a change in consumption models, but that does not prevent many families from joining the authentic festival rituals.
On the other hand, a certain number of young people in the primary of life believe that modern media have imposed themselves as an alternative to family meetings, such as the messages of “Eid Mubarak” through “Whatsapp” and “Facebook” replaced real visits, which have lost the part of its intimacy, although there are those who reject this transformation.
In this context, Abdullah Amzan, a young man from Zagora, says: “I prefer to walk the family and drink with them, walking without an emoji empty of congratulations.” Speaking of young people clinging to the traditions and customs of the ancestors, in particular the holidays, and to the visit of the family, parents, friends and uterus, indicating that 11 months per year are open to discuss and use communication.
Despite these transformations, the spirit of challenge is always strongly present. In a number of southeast villages, some families organize collective tables that include neighbors and parents, such as a kind of recovery from the weather of “the bump”, which questions high cost and lifestyle pressure. In this context, Fatima, a widow residing in Errachidia, said: “We don’t have much, but you have shared joy, and it is the one that increases the set of the party.”
The children too, who are the most affected by the “digitization of the party”, some always impatiently await “the occasion of the party” to visit the family. Although many of them spend their time with smartphones and electronic games, many families strive to legalize the use of phones during the day of Eid so that moments of real communication are not lost.
The collective actor, Hanan ALA, believes that “social transformations are normal, but the real challenge is the reconciliation of modernity and the preservation of the authentic spirit of the party,” addition “, we have a rich identity which should not be lost in screens and high costs, and social awareness is the key to preserving our cohesion.”
In this context, certain local associations launch symbolic initiatives each year during the holidays, such as the organization of collective visits to the elderly or the supply of simple gifts to children, in order to compensate for the heat lost by economic and social conditions.
Muhammad al -Ghaziwi, a resident of the city of Tinghir, asked: can the party find its old chandelier in the light of these transformations? He stressed that the answer lies in the collective consciousness of the importance of preserving traditions, not only as nostalgia for the past, but as a means of confronting social disintegration and alienation within the family. “”
Despite all the constraints, Eid Al -Fitr in the South -East remains an opportunity that carries the strength of cultural and social resistance, and a collective insistence that the family scale remains in place, even if with barley bread and mint tea because value is not apparently, but in the continuation of hearts.
