Video .. How did the Algerian Boyden become Palestinian?

Awad al-Rajoub - Hebron

He left his homeland and family and immigrated to Mecca and Jerusalem, but the place settled in Jerusalem and its shrouds, and there he married and founded a family, but the love of the country brought him back again after half a century with a short visit to his hometown of Algeria before returning to Palestine and God died in 2009.

He is the Palestinian-Algerian Muhammad bin Al-Tahir bin Othman Bouidain, born around 1912 in the region of the sons of Ahmed "Mashta Boukhlad" which mediates the regions of the sons of Askar and Tesala to Mata'i and Jemila, in the state of Jijel, about 400 east of the capital Algiers.

Adventure and willpower
At the home of Dr. Ibrahim Bouydine, his son from his Palestinian wife in the town of Dhahria, Al-Jazeera Net had a lengthy meeting with his sons to get to know a story that is closer to the adventure, which carries many surprises, and at the same time strength of will and determination, and some cruelty.

The professor of Islamic faith, Dr. Ibrahim (49 years), mediates three sons of the late Muhammad bin Al-Tahir, the eldest of whom is history professor Ali, and the youngest of them is Sheikh Omar, who works as an imam of a nearby mosque, and he has a married sister.

Boydine takes us back to the era of French colonialism in Algeria, where his father was a simple worker in Algiers during the thirties and forties of the last century, until he decided in 1950 to go to Mecca with a number of his companions a man to perform the Hajj.

Farewell to the homeland and children
In the care of God, the man left his wife and son Al-Hussein in his first year and his daughter, three-year-old, and went to the Ottoman Empire, then Wadi Al-Zanati, then Tunisia, then Libya. Months in the Hussein Mosque in Cairo.

Just before he went to Mecca, he wanted to "sanctify his argument" by visiting Jerusalem - as is usually the case with many Islamic peoples - and he actually passed Sinai to Palestine, which was a new era of the Nakba, and the occupation’s control of the borders did not prevent him from achieving his goal, and there he was arrested and placed in Beersheba prison.

During the arrest of Hajj Muhammad al-Jaza’iri, the occupation continued with the French colonial authorities to verify his security file, and he was released after months. He continued his way to Jerusalem, but he was arrested again by Jordan, who was running the West Bank before its occupation in 1967, because he did not possess personal documents, and he stayed for months Another was in Hebron prison, then he was released and went to Jerusalem before completing his way to Makkah Al-Mukarramah.

Between the cities of Jeddah and Makkah Al-Hajj Muhammad bin Al-Tahir Boydain spent three years between work and worship, and then decided to return to Palestine and reside in the Maghribi Corner near the Al-Aqsa Mosque in 1955, and there remained ten years during which work visits were made to Jordan.

The road to Algeria
During his stay in Jerusalem, the Algerian realized that he would not be able to return because he did not have any documents, and he continued to move between Jerusalem and Amman until he had a friendship with Palestinians from the Al-Hawarin family in the town of Al-Dhahiriya in the south of Hebron. Al-Dhaheria town in 1967 until his death in 2009.

After obtaining a personal identity after the occupation of the West Bank, he managed, with the arrival of the Palestinian Authority, to obtain a Palestinian passport that marked a new and distinguished turning point in his life that enabled him to visit his first country.

"The opinion settled that we would take our father to Algeria, where his family and family are, but the circumstances of Algeria in the 1990s did not allow this, until the year 2000 came and we decided to take him to Algeria," said Dr. Ibrahim.

Until 2000, the news of the man was cut off from his family, except for an ordinary orphan message without news, sent in 1985.

Dr. Ibrahim says that he packed his luggage and took his father to Amman, heading to Algeria, and at the airport, his cousins ​​received him above the description.

After spending their night in Algiers, they set out in the morning to his uncle's good house in Farjiwa, who prepared for them a festival similar to a wedding in which feelings of joy, sadness and longing were mixed, and here he was waiting for the children of his uncles, their children and grandchildren.

Shocking scenes
Closer scenes of the trauma experienced by the father and the son and their future, the most intense of the father looking for his daughter among dozens waiting for him to come "and complain of you are cute" (who is cute), but cute (his daughter who left him 3 years old) in a similar to the trauma related to the door of her uncle's house crying joy "fatherly" Akhawia "(my dad, my brother), how can not and everything she remembers that her father left them from a popular house striking the cold in the mountains of Algeria, without returning.

In Jijel, the first brother of Dr. Ibrahim lives from his father, while his sister, Zarifa, in the state of Mila / Municipality of Zaghaya, has died, leaving several children.

Dr. Ibrahim got to know his brother, sister, uncles and aunts, the eldest Ammar and the good one in the municipality of Farjiwa, and Masoud in the municipality of Rawashid in the Wilayat of Mila, and their children.

"We belong to the Bouydine clan, which is descended from the municipality of Tesla Mata'i, 400 km east of the capital," Boydine Jr. is proud of.

Within forty days, the father and son visited all his relatives, son and daughter, and the ruins of his house and recalled all the areas surrounding his hometown, each in its name, and he went to the official authorities and regained his Algerian identity and his passport as well as his son Ibrahim.

The moment of decisiveness
But after the visit came to an end, the moment of decisiveness came and perhaps the most difficult decision in his life was a family in Algeria and another in Palestine, sons in Algeria and others in Palestine, but he announced it in an Algerian dialect that he preserved for sixty years of alienation. "I migrated to the Holy Land and we return to die with it." "And after returning nine years, he passed away as he had hoped.

Today, his middle son, Dr. Ibrahim, is keen on his identity and that of his Algerian children alongside the Palestinian, while circumstances did not allow his older brother Ali to obtain them, while Omar managed to obtain both nationalities.

Dr. Ibrahim holds a master’s degree in Islamic studies from Al-Quds University in Palestine, and a doctorate in belief from the University of Prince Abdul Qadir in Algeria, and he still hesitates between his families in Algeria and Palestine, and two of his children continue their studies at Tlemcen University and the National Higher School in the capital.

Which country is Palestine or Algeria? A question that Dr. Ibrahim expected from us, but the answer was present. Palestine is like the womb of the mother, we created and raised us on her soil, but it is impossible for us to forget our origin. The blood of Algeria runs through our veins and we are proud and proud of it.

Where is the weirdness?
Regarding alienation, he says, "There is no alienation here or there, both of whom are patriotic, and in both of them I divide my life. I have a family here and a family there. Present here and present there."

And what compels a man who has the option to live free in a sovereign country to live in an occupation that does not allow him to move freely even within a single city. Dr. Ibrahim answers, "I do not hide from you that I thought of leaving, but Palestine is the land of Rabat."

Dr. Boydain worked for ten years as Deputy Mufti of the Hebron Governorate, then as Director of the Research Department of the Palestinian Fatwa Department, then Mufti of South Hebron for a decade, and now he is Professor of Faith at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences of the Palestinian Ministry of Endowments, in addition to taking on public speaking and teaching in mosques.

Returning to Algeria, Dr. Ibrahim regrets the vast areas of unexploited lands "and the high rate of unemployment, corruption and injustice", hoping that with the new presidential elections, Algeria will achieve real and serious reform by giving the opportunity to resident and expatriate competencies.

Sheikh Ibrahim and his brothers are keen to follow the news of their second home through the Algerian newspapers and satellite channels.