For immediate protection of heritage

As part of a series of meetings on "The challenges of Islamic heritage and its protection," the Al Muniya Association of Marrakech recently held its third meeting of this holy month at the Riad in Triq Jbel Lakhder in the Medina.President of the Association, Jaafar Kanssousi, recalled the need to preserve heritage in a context of violence that recently pushed extremists to vandalise monuments of inestimable spiritual value in Mali, in the name of an erroneous interpretation of religion.In this context, architect Mohamed Belmejjad presented a series of slides on the often disastrous state of a number of monuments in the Medina of Marrakech.Then, Professor Mustapha Lmhadder, a researcher in traditional arts, launched the debate around the El Badi Palace: "What fate should we reserve for the remains of El Badi?" A question eminently debated, as the formidable spectacle of the Saadian ruins…