“ⵙⴽⵙⵓ (sksu)” by Salima Jirari

‘Sksu means ‘well rounded’ in ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ (tamazight), the language of my ancestors.
‘My great-grandmother knew how to round well.
‘After different colonisations, this name was adapted to the North African North African Arabic كووسكوس) kūskūs), which later derived into the French word couscous.
‘They were Amazigh.
‘Amazigh means generous, noble or dignified.
‘At home it has always been said to mean ‘free people’.
‘They used the same word to designate their language,
‘their territory and themselves, as you die. It may be because the
‘transmission of knowledge, identity and wisdom was through them.
‘This piece aims to investigate whether they are still us’.

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Salima Jirari is a content development consultant specialising in diversity representation. She has worked with several companies, programmes and universities such as the Spanish Film Academy, DAMA, Netflix, Proimagenes Colombia, Coofilm, Mujeres Visuales, Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat de Girona, Universitat Jaume I or Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She also works as a researcher in the film industry.

PEI MACBA. Student, researches and explores new narratives about ‘the Moorish’, identity and memory, trying to escape from westernist and colonial logics.