Aicha meeting the Dutch experts

Aicha Aboudmiaa met the experts on Iligh, the history of Morocco, the Tashelhyt language and the former students of Paul Pascon in Leyden University. She gave a talk on the history and heritage of Iligh, the family's documents and the need to have them preserved. Her presentation was very well received. The gentlemen, most of whom were retired from active work reacted positive to her invitation to come for a reunion to Iligh. Paolo de Mas and Herman van der Wüsten were with Paul Pascon in Iligh in the early eighties. Herman who became Professor Social Geography at UvA, Amsterdam University admitted that after his adventure in Iligh never did research on Morocco since. Paolo de Mas on the other hand became director of the Dutch Institute in Rabat and had visited Iligh with a TV crew as recent as 2011. He also wrote a book about the history of Morocco with Herman Obdeyn. Herman Obdeyn a retired diplomat still publishes about Morocco. He also was friends with the Moroccan scientist who died in the car crash with Paul Pascon in 1985. Recently he wrote a history book about 400 years relationships between the Netherlands and Morocco together with Morocco Dutch publicist Abdelkader Benali. Harry Stromer also retired is an expert on the Tashelhyt language that is spoke in the region of Iligh and has published and impressive library full of literature in the language and in translation. His life's work is a dictionary and grammar of Tashelhyt. He took us after the meeting to his home to view his work. On the way back to Amsterdam we were very conscious of the pressure of time as people with knowledge are getting very old and the state the documents are in is deteriorating.