The Zaouïa Moulay El Bachir Al Alaoui rehabilitated

A high place of spirituality, pilgrimage, and meditation, for both women and men from the Tekna tribes and the oases of southern Morocco, the Moulay El Bachir Al Alaoui zaouia refuses to fall into oblivion and intends to fully assume its role as a guardian of ancestral Sahrawi traditions and collective memory. It has been resurrected today thanks to the determination of Lalla Fatma Lmrini, who created an association around it for the renewal of heritage and sustainable development. This lady, who proudly considers herself the "first female curator of a zaouia in Morocco," has succeeded in bringing the Moulay El Bachir Al Alaoui zaouia, inherited from her father, back to life, safeguarding its heritage, and rehabilitating its memory. "I inherited this zaouia from my father, who passed away in 1978 when I was 9 years old. Over the years, I noticed that visitors were becoming rare, even th…