AMNAY, SON OF THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS On the Move That day, Amnay Idir was to become a Roman soldier, and his name would be romanized to Amnius Idirtus. Alone as he faced his destiny, he moved toward the Forum in the heart o…
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AMNAY, SON OF THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS
On the Move
That day, Amnay Idir was to become a Roman soldier, and his name would be romanized to Amnius Idirtus. Alone as he faced his destiny, he moved toward the Forum in the heart of Volubilis where commercial and administrative activities took place. He registered in the cavalry regiment of the Roman army. Since antiquity, Moors have been inseparable from their horses. It started with one of their leaders, Lusius Quietus—an Amazigh, in spite of his romanized name who had created the cavalry in the Roman army. Amnay's name in Amazigh means the horse rider, and he loved horses.
Though Rome represented the invader, the alien, it also represented a land beyond the sea, another continent for adventure, and Amnay's blood was boiling with two aspects of his culture: a deep and peaceful love of nature, and an impetuous taste for adventure with the courage to face it.
Hafsa Bekri-Lamrani is a Moroccan poet and short story writer. She graduated from the Lycée Descartes High School in Rabat, Morocco and from Paris VII University, France with a DEA in Anglo-Saxon Studies. She worked on a PhD on East and West in P.B. Shelley's Works (Sorbonne). She has taught English in various institutions such as the Moroccan Air Force Base in Salé, the Rabat and Casablanca CPR (Teachers Colleges), and the American Language Centers in Rabat and Casablanca. Since the eighties, she has participated in the creation in Casablanca of various women, children's and cultural NGOs such as the Women and Development Association, Al Madina Social and Cultural Association, The House of Poetry of Morocco, Center for Mediterranean Studies, and Fondation Cultures du Monde (World Cultures Foundation). Her love for literature has brought her to writing and her care for human suffering is present in her writings. For the past 10 years she has been giving writing workshops to young musicians and writers from all over Morocco.
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