Mo Abbas, who leads writing and photography workshops in Marseille, and cartoonist Benoît Guillaume have been entrusted with the production of the latest issue of the small newspaper of the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem).
And had fun asking this question between La Canebière and the Panier district:
“Do you know the Emir Abd el-Kader?”
Surprise: the responses were mostly negative.
Or at least evasive.
Especially those of young people:
“A corsair?”
or
“a gentleman with a turban who rode a horse?”
.
It's that, as another teenager confided:
"You don't learn that kind of thing at school."
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As for the elders, met on café terraces, often still strongly attached to their North African or Near Eastern roots, they hesitated.
Abd al-Kader?
A great man, the founder of the first Algerian state or a harki (a traitor)?
The heartbreaks and tragedies of the 20th century have blurred the image.
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