Visual arts at the service of national causes

The meeting, in which historians, men of letters, intellectuals, painters, veterans, and civil society actors took part, was an opportunity for the participants to highlight the role of visual arts in the preservation of the national collective memory. After welcoming this initiative, qualified as original, Mustapha El Ktiri, High Commissioner for Veterans and Former Members of the Liberation Army, stressed that safeguarding the national memory constituted a historical responsibility and a patriotic duty. He further defined the national memory as the set of oral, written, but also visual heritage retracing the epic of the heroes of the national movement in the noble mission of mobilising the Moroccan people for the recovery of independence and liberation from the yoke of the protectorate."Aware of the importance of safeguarding the national memory, the High Commission has made enormous…