Israel
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Asia
23 June 2009
Mousavi, Ahmadinejad, and Israel
You know, this really isn’t difficult to understand.
But, some background first...
One would think, with all the hatred towards Jews and Israel spewing forth out of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Iranian (...)
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Algeria
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Kabylia
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Democracy
22 June 2009
Singer-activist Ferhat Mehenni’s campaign for liberal self-government.
On the margins of the Arab world, the United States has some little noticed allies. These are ethnic or religious minorities who have never accepted the inevitability of strongman rule. Some of them have fallen on hard times-the (...)
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Colonialism
19 June 2009
Kabylia before the French Colonialism
Before the French occupation in 1830, Kabylia was in perpetual rebellion against the Ottoman oppressors. It often succeeded to make of its autonomy an accomplished fact. This was evidenced by events such as that where At-Umeqwran (...)
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Autonomy
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America
16 June 2009
The Political Visit of President Ferhat Mehenni to Quebec
Account of the Political Visit of Ferhat Mehenni to Quebec
Association Quebec-Kabylia
Sunday, 14 June 2009 / MAK
During his last visit to Quebec, Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of the Movement for Autonomy of Kabylia (MAK) has had to (...)
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14 June 2009
The MAK Commemorates the Anniversary of the Historic March of 14 June 2001
TIMANIT I TMURT N YEQVAYLIYEN
Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia
M-A-K
The March of 14 June 2001
On 14 June 2001, Kabylia sent more than two million of its citizens in the streets of Algiers to hand the “Platform of (...)
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Conflict
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Tamazgha
11 June 2009
Jeez, Ain’t That Nice?
I mean, all that balanced moral equivalence and stuff. I just get goosebumps.
I recently received my Jerusalem Online Updates on the computer and, sure enough, there’s President Obama’s Mid East envoy, George (...)
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Celebration
6 June 2009
The movement for the autonomy of Kabylia eighth anniversary
On 5 June 2001, a new hope was born in Kabylia: That of a regional autonomy. Now the Kabyle people will no longer turn in circles as he used to do previously, like someone lost in history. The blocked horizon of the linguistic claim (...)
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Dictatorship
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USA
6 June 2009
Obama, Settlements, and the Missing Two-State-Solutions
President Barack Obama’s long-awaited speech to the Muslim World in Cairo had some important, positive elements in it. He is to be commended for that.
Among other things, he spelled out the need for Arabs and other Muslims (...)
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France
4 June 2009
The french revolution and the autonomy of Kabylia
EDMUND BURKE VERSUS THOMAS PAINE
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ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA VERSUS FERHAT MEHENNI
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance (...)
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Genocide
2 June 2009
Amnesty Int’l Report 2009 on Algeria, Misfocused on Christian Convert, Oblivious of Berber Nation
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis May 31, 2009
I have repeatedly defended religious groups that happen to be targeted, marginalized and persecuted, from Iraq’s Aramaeans to the Najran Oasis’ Yemenite Shias of Saudi (...)
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30 May 2009
Speech of Ferhat Mehenni before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
United Nations
The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Eighth Session
Coordination of the French-speaking Indigenous Peoples
(CAF)
Algeria (...)
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Identity
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Japan
19 May 2009
Of the Importance of Strong Relations between Japan and Kabylia
When I arrived in Japan (Nihon) last year, I was surprised to see that no Japanese has heard of our existence as Kabylians (Kabylian-jin). The majority of the friendly Japanese people (Nihon-jin) with whom I have had the pleasure to (...)
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Morocco
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Racism
19 May 2009
Ayyur is a forbidden name
On Monday,May 11th, I felt discriminated and humiliated when I went to the Civil Status Service to register my newborn (boy) with the name ( Ayyur Adam) in Beni Mellal. The agent said “Adam is accepted but Ayyur is (...)
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13 May 2009
’Berbers, Where Do You Stand on Palestine?’
Throughout the recent fighting in Gaza, the mainstream North African press was nearly unanimous in its support for the Palestinians and its condemnation of Israel. Some Amazigh (Berber) activist groups, though, made a point of (...)
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Research
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Africa
3 May 2009
The sun investigate lost city Atlantis
Despite lying lost beneath the waves since the dawn of civilization, the mythical home of an ancient utopian society has never been forgotten.
Indeed, interest in the legend is very much alive today - as has been proved by the global (...)
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Islam
21 April 2009
Algeria, a country of misery
What I feared most happened. I was asked to give my opinion on the upcoming April 9 presidential election. I thought about it very seriously and frankly, I found nothing to say. Besides, it is dangerous to say anything. Recess has (...)
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12 April 2009
An election against change- By Hocine Ait Ahmed
Paper Of Hocine AIT AHMED about the masquerade of 09 April.
« Yet, the danger which not just the regime but the country itself are exposed to - a political, economic and moral defeat resulting from the disastrous decisions taken by a (...)
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Religion
25 March 2009
It’s too late...
Morocco has recently decided to sever ties with Iran, but what is the rationale of this surprising move? As we can read and listen it in mainstream media, this North African country is very worried about the spreading of Shiism, the (...)
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Arabism
25 March 2009
The Makhzen will ban Morocco too!
The Moroccan regime has decided that the banning of Amazigh first names inside the country is not sufficient enough. Two or three weeks before, it has sent to all his corrupt consulates all over the world a racist notice forbidding (...)
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Discrimination
24 March 2009
The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity
Preliminary remarks about Morocco’s report on human rights practices that will be discussed with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on 20 April,2009
Despite the fact that the country is (...)
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22 March 2009
Hey Kristof...You’re Late!
While The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof is no stranger to these positions throughout the year, he frequently comes out with his gems of Middle East wisdom right around Bike Week here in Daytona Beach, Florida, when tens of (...)
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10 March 2009
Bhutan, Switzerland and Kabylia: Devaluation and Future
Sovereign Mountains
As large as and more mountainous than Switzerland, it is located in the heart of the Himalayan chain between India and China. Its greatest asset is its Buddhist philosophy. This philosophy is based on a Tibetan (...)
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7 March 2009
Berbers as Anti-Islamists and Anti-Arab Nationalists
I’ve been studying the Middle East and Islam since 1969 but there is still so much to learn. It was only on visiting Salem Chaker, professor of Berber studies at the University of Paris in March 2006 that I realized the vibrancy (...)
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Rif
2 March 2009
Morocco: Rights group demands to know activist’s fate
Casablanca, 19 Feb. (AKI) - Human Rights Watch has called on Moroccan authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of human rights activist, Chekib el-Khiari who has not been seen since he reported to the judicial police in (...)
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Diaspora
23 February 2009
Rabat forbids berber names
The Dutch from Morocco can’t give berber names to their children according to moroccan authorities. Thus, the Islamic identity is being emphasized.
This week, the moroccan government sent a list of forbidden names to all the (...)
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19 February 2009
Anti-kabylism of the Algerian regime: the dignitaries make their confessions
Early in December 2008, Chadli Ben Jedid, president of the Republic from Mars 1979 to January 1992, admitted that during the independence war (1954-1962), because it was not raised to the rank of Wilaya by the Soummam Congress, his (...)
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Nederland
30 January 2009
Morocco Bans Unislamic Names, including Berber ones...in Netherlands
THE HAGUE, 29/01/09 - Moroccans in the Netherlands are not allowed to give their children any Berber names any more. In this way, Islamic identity is being stressed, Trouw newspaper reported yesterday.
By far the biggest group of (...)
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Portrait
30 January 2009
Islamists killed Tahar Djaout: We should give life to his ideas
The Algerian novel The Last Summer of Reason provides a powerful and strangely beautiful reminder of the danger of letting violent ideological fundamentalism fester. We would do well to heed this reminder now, not later.
Algerian (...)
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29 January 2009
Yennayer in New York
Yennayer in NYC is finally back. Please join ACAA to mark the comeback of our New York community to the center of the action!
Here is the announcement for ACAA’s NYC celebration of the Amazigh New Year.
Date and time: Evening (...)
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Media
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Migration
26 January 2009
The role of Kurdish intellectuals in the Diaspora
The emergence of the Kurdish Diaspora
KurdishMedia.com - By Dr Rebwar Fatah
What has driven the emergence of the Kurdish Diaspora community?
An estimated two million Kurds now live in the democratic world, forming a sizable Kurdish (...)
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Terrorism
19 January 2009
Deadliest weapon so far... the plague
Anti-terror bosses last night hailed their latest ally in the war on terror - the BLACK DEATH
At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.
The killer (...)
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Kurdistan
19 January 2009
Between Ankara And Jerusalem...
Among other things, while hosting a banquet in honor of the visiting United Nations Secretary General, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoggan urged the world "not to turn a blind eye towards Israel’s savagery."
In reality, the (...)
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Education
4 January 2009
Massinissa
In the third century BC Massinissa was king of the Numidians. His Father, Gaia, was king of the Massylies.
On the death of the father, the inheritance received allowed the son to achieve unity of the 2 tribes, the Masaesyles and the (...)
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4 January 2009
We are looking for writers and translators
This Mediterranean people who contributed to the rise of civilization is now reduced to an endangered species.
The most basic human rights er denied to them. The right to land, the right to speak their language, to choose their (...)
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16 December 2008
The religions of the book and Islam
The tragedy is that Muslims feel to say things about a religion that is not theirs. Islam recognizes other religions only to better suppress and thus only Muslim religion is privileged.
There is a semantic manipulation to say that (...)
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