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Figig is a town in eastern Morocco , close to the border with Algeria , in the Atlas Mountains . It is located at around . FIGIG Figig is a set of seven different communities. They are: At-Wadday, At-Amar, At-Lamiz, At-Sliman, At-Nnaj, At-Addi, Iznayen. A territory of a community is called Aghram (plural Igharmawan) that is a fortified group of houses. Near the entrance of each Aghram, rose a tower where someone was keeping watch on the surroundings, in order to protect Aghram. Big doors on the main entrances were used to be closed at night. Engineering of Aghram is designed as a maze in order to have only few entrances. Inside of an Aghram, the way (Abrid) is a sort of circuit that lead to the main entrances. Some houses were extended by building rooms over the way. The related part of the way becomes a hall (Askif). Houses (Tidriwin) are built with soil mainly. Two essential parts of a date palm are used to make a roof (Tizidin: Fourth part of its trunk cut in height) and Tikachba (head of its leaf called Taratta, plural Tiradwin). The structure of Igharmawan remains the same even though electricity, water, new windows and doors have been added and changed. We can find some squares inside Aghram. They are a kind of places that were used to make gatherings or to exhibit merchandise (chiefly Udi: cooked butter, Ibrassa: dried milk, and Douft: sheep wool) brought by arab nomads coming from the surroundings. This time is now over. Even some parts of houses were rebuilt in cement, Aghram is no longer the same, not well-stocked as before. The remained people want more space; something new outside Aghram; and outside Tamurt (country). Ifiyey (Figig), a date palm oasis land, is located in Morocco's South-East side. It is surrounded by mountains. The main resource is Tiyni (dates) from Tazdayt (date palm). One counts some hundreds of thousands of (Tizdayn) date palms. In 1960s, Ifiyey had lost countless date palms because of the Bayud disease. It is difficult to know the population of Figig because of the continuous exodus towards opportunities abroad. Roughly, it would be some tens of thousands. The original mainly spoken language is tmazight (Berber is a pejorative word). Imazighan is the speaker of Tmazight. Figig's people are called At-Ufiyyey (Note that it takes a special accent and an appropiate phonetic, as all the languages, to pronounce Iwalan (words)). Tmazight, in Figig, is still just spoken, not written. The last syllabe in the word Ifiyey is pronounced as in year (say yeay). In Tifinagh script, that would be written as: . Akharbish, often was held near a mosque, the place where one learns Lkuraan (Kuran), has not been the trend since the arrival of the French. The tendency is to go to a modern french school where one can learn French language. The wanted circumstances have made the fact that learning French was - and still is - the straight way to earn notoriety and prestige. Akharbish collapsed and Arabic language lags behind. In the near surroundings, the soil was used to sow wheat (Tasharza). This completed the necessary needs we had in order to live decently. To gain more space to cultivate, we built Tidunawin (walls with stones and soil) over the Jorf. The private property of each owner is shown by Timusagh (built with soil). Trespassing was not allowed. The Jorf, sort of a salt mountain is about 1 kilometer long and 50 meters heigh. It is often the favorite place for pigeons and bees to take nests; scorpions and snakes as well. It belongs to At-Lamiiz, At-Sliman and Iznayen. It is a line between high-Figig and low-Figig. Taanount, Alaakbat and Azru are the principal ways between them. In the north of the high-Figig region, just some meters after the pass which is the main entrance to Figig, all of the Tittawin (the water sources) of Iflan are there. Digging only 10 meters could lead to water. To conduct Aman (water) from Tit (source) to Iyran, the system Ifli (Plural Iflan) is used. That is water that comes the long of Lakbawat (underground channels); then in Tiragwin (Targa stands for channel). Irrigate a little Iyran needs some Tighirin. But if it comes for someone to Kan (close) water at night or if someone prefers to postpone irrigation, Shwaraj (Sharij stands for basin) are the essential place to store water. It is built with stones and cement (lime before). In the most cases, the owners of Tanita (12 hours/ 2 weeks) of water own a water basin. A Sharij is also used as a swimming pool for kids; if they have permission to swim, of course. Thanks to new technologies, we built new houses with cement and steel. Indoors, electricity, gas, phone, and especially cell phone, miscellaneous and multitude digital satellite programs, and even high speed Internet are available. The satellite progrogms are the principal source to stay abreast of the news around the world. Internet is not a buzz word any more. It is a reliable window toward other realities. In Ajanna (High Figig), the only cyber shop, near LBiru, kind of reliable news desk, provides the remaining youngs with software games, Yahoo MSN Messenger and browsing through the Net. The presence of the French in Figig from 1904 to 1956 had some influences in the life of AtUfyyey. Towers haven't their roles any more. To settle an issue, from now on, the place where to be is Lbiru (Bureau) which is set in the middle of Figig, over the Jorf, where the main church takes place. The stern French administration decided everything and ruled the roost. Minds have changed. Once pulled out, the French succeeded to leave entangled dependence. |
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