Lamalif

Zakya Daoud
In the author’s day held at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Ms. Zakya Daoud came to give a presentation about her book Lamalif that talks about the 30 years of journalism in Morocco between 1958 and 1988. In this book is a narrative-descriptive book because the author described Morocco at that time based on her experience and the experience of people who knows. Ms. Daoud said that it is very important for people to know the history of present time because it shapes our present. In her book she criticizes Morocco for various things. She said that Morocco is not really an agriculture force as it is said. Concerning the industrialization, she said that we have to question ourselves if textile is industrialization, and she continues, we do not have the industrialization basics in Morocco.
She said that one of the differences between that time and now, people talked about the Maghreb Arab Union (Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Tunisia and Libya), but nowadays, no one talks about it, and the new generation is forgetting it. She said also that in this period of 30 years, they witnessed the decline and fall down of the Arabs.
At that time, she said, the there was not as much entertaining tools as today. In Music, there were Jil Jilala and Nas Lghiwane, movies were very rare and most of them were short ones, but they were very expressive and talk about the reality. She stated that at that time people started to talk about tradition versus modernization.
When she talked about politics, she mentioned a very interesting quote: “the more the political space is closed, the more the cultural space is open.”
Finally, she spoke about the relationship between media and government. She said that there are always red lines to stay within. She affirmed that those lines exist because media and government are two different powers with different goals.