[Thesis defence] 12/12/2025 – Moulay Ali El Bouamraoui: «The teaching of Amazigh in Morocco and serene identity» (UPR ICTT)

Mr Moulay Ali EL BOUAMRAOUI will publicly defend his thesis entitled: «The teaching of Amazigh in Morocco and serene identity», supervised by Ms Annemarie DINVAUT, on Friday 12 December 2025.

Laboratory

UPR 4277 ICTT - Cultural Identity, Texts and Theatricality Laboratory

Composition of the jury

Mrs Annemarie DINVAUT	Avignon University	Thesis supervisor
Ms Laurie CARLSON BERG	St Mary's University	Rapporteur
Ms Émilie PERRICHON	University Littoral-Côte d'Opale	Rapporteur
Mr. Frédéric Gimello-Mesplomb	University of Avignon	Examiner
Ms MARINE TOTOZANI	Jean Monnet University	Examiner
Mrs Florence BISTAGNE	University of Avignon	Examiner
Mr Philippe BLANCHET	University of Rennes 2	Examiner

Summary

Morocco's colonial history explains its multiculturalism and multilingualism. After the country gained independence, the Arabisation campaign aimed to purify the country of all linguistic and cultural alienation and reduce its cultural diversity to a single component. The emergence of the Amazigh Cultural Movement appeared mainly as a reaction to this exclusion. The «reductive» tendency of Arab nationalism was met with an «isolationist» tendency of the Amazigh movement. Moroccan identity is thus torn between two extreme currents fuelled by Arabism and Amazighism, hence the importance we attach, in this research, to the integration of Amazigh language teaching in the possible development of a national sentiment among future generations through the inculcation of the traits of a serene national identity.

Keywords Amazigh, identity, culture