Norway at the bedside of the douar Aït Abdi

All eyes were on the douar Aït Abdi, in the Al-Haouz province, on Saturday 28 February, which received a visit from the Norwegian ambassador to Morocco, Are-Jostein Norheim, on the occasion of the presentation ceremony of a Norwegian book about this small, isolated locality in the rural commune of Tazart.The book, entitled “Sensations of a Berber village, scenes of life in Aït Abdi”, the fruit of a collaboration between the Norwegian University of Lillehammer and the Moroccan Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech (UCAM), retraces the different facets of the daily life of the local population and highlights the cultural and socio-economic particularities of the village. The publication of this 160-page book, whose texts are the work of Pierre Nygren, professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Lillehammer, and the images of Anne Lee Ensgtrom, an independent photographer based…