Tweeza

[1][2] The Tweeza is reflected in the village societies revolving around the Sufi zawiyas by voluntary action of cleaning, weeding, collecting waste and other rubbish as well as the planting of fruit and ornamental trees.

[5][6] In addition to the Sheikh of the Zawiya of the region who oversees the activity of the Tweeza through his Barakah, it is also the Thadjmaath [ar] of each village to coordinate the associative logistics in collaboration with local elected officials and Imams of mosques, and even personalities acquired for the environmental and social cause of the community.

[9] This action maintains the concept of Tweeza and rehabilitates it in the form of a voluntary service which was once practiced everywhere in the rural and village world, and which must be protected and preserved from the tendency to disappear over time due to modernity and urbanization.

[10][11] The Tweeza supposes the union or the conjugation of the efforts of the "Thadjmaath" to carry out works of common interest such as the plowing and sowing campaigns, the construction of mosques, zawiyas and medersas.

[14][15] During the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, all the women of the villages meet with their children to collect together in turn all the olives, a kind of Tweeza, all in a good-natured atmosphere by reciting Achewiq [ar] songs in chorus.