Aicha Aboudmiaa comes to Amsterdam

In the last week of September and the first week of October 2017 Bert Hogervorst and me were in Iligh on reconnaissance. There we met with Moulay Imam Aboudmiaa and his wife Fatima and got to get to know their daughter Aicha better. I came back to Amsterdam before Bert after having spent another week in Tangiers and started immediately on the graphic novel about Iligh. Bert had kept a diary while in Iligh and I used this diary as scenario. Bert in the meantime contacted everybody who in the past had had something to do with Iligh. And although she stayed in Morocco till the end of October and almost immediately moved to the Orkney Islands afterwards, she did manage to get positive responses from everyone. Especially Paolo de Mas who had been to Iligh in company of Paul Pascon proved to be of great help. Aicha Aboudmiaa was coming to Europe to visit her sisters in Paris. Bert convinced her to come to Amsterdam too to meet the men who had an interest in her heritage. She landed on November 22th. Bert had set up a meeting in the library/hall of the University in Leyden on the 24th. Aicha wanted to give a presentation. That had to be prepared beforehand on Bertje's Apple laptop that Aicha also had to learn to use. It were a hectic and intense few days of preparation.