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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
A Kuwaiti-Syrian Ramadan television series, titled “Fath- Al-Andalous”, sparked a backlash among Moroccans, who accuse the producers of erasing the Amazigh identity of the series’ main protagonist, Tariq Ibn Ziyad. Ibn Ziyad was a key figure in Islamic history who as an army commander that oversaw the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 AD and established Al-Andalus. Despite being regarded as one of the most prominent Umayyad military leaders in history, Ibn Ziyad’s origins remain unknown with historians divided on whether he had Amazigh Moroccan, Algerian, Arabic or Farsi roots. Due to t…