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Kabylia - Democracy - Autonomy

Algeria : Human Rights Seminar Deliberately Disrupted

9 August 2010

In the city of Tizi-Ouzou, in the indigenous Kabylie region of Algeria, a human rights seminar was to be held July 23rd through 25th, 2010, for the purpose of international promotion and defense of human rights, organized by the Amazigh World Congress (CMA), Kabylie’s Women Organization (AFK), and the Kabylie-Solidarité Organization, with the support of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa (...)continue

Identity - Research

25 July 2010

’’The Shining Ones’’

’’The Shining Ones’’ An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization by Helene E. Hagan The first edition of this book was published on September 1, 2000. I subsequently continued to (...)continue

Kabylia - USA

8 July 2010

New Ally Against al Qaeda

With the formation of a new provisional government of the Algerian region of Kabylia, the Western world might have gained a precious ally to fight al-Qaeda in one of its most strategic hideouts. If only someone noticed that this (...)continue

Tamazgha

8 July 2010

The Kabyle wills : Through the foundation of a self-ruled Kabyle State

Here is April! Here is spring passing by! Once again, it reinvigorates the insatiable instinct of life that always drives the mankind soul since the time beginning. A spring hunts another. It brings in the renewal bleeding of its (...)continue

Autonomy

8 July 2010

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 (...)continue

Germany

8 July 2010

Ulrich Delius and the autonomy of Kabylia

On July 31st, the German Friendship Association Germany­Kabylie presided by Lyazid Abid organized a conference, jointly animated by Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of MAK and Mr. Ulrich Delius, President of the "Society of Endangered (...)continue

Media - Islam

8 July 2010

New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda?

They have largely been ignored by the rest of the world, but some analysts say the U.S. might soon need to reach out to a little known indigenous group in Algeria known as the Kabyles, for help in the war against al Qaeda and other (...)continue

France

2 July 2010

The french revolution and the autonomy of Kabylia

EDMUND BURKE VERSUS THOMAS PAINE OR 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 (...)continue

Algeria

22 June 2010

Official request for an autonomy status for Kabylia

in french 7 years after having formulated its first claim, MAK (Movement for autonomy of Kabylia) has formally officialised its request for a regional autonomy to state authorities; a copy was addressed to international authorities (...)continue

Conflict - Dictatorship - Israel

16 June 2010

Send In The Marines!

For quite some time in our nation’s relatively short history, whenever we faced severe difficulties regarding national interests, Send In The Marines was our frequent call. Iran—that beacon of humanity (just ask the (...)continue

Colonialism

14 June 2010

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 (...)continue

Kurdistan

8 June 2010

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East’s Kurdish issue? — Last Part

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East’s Kurdish issue? (Part I) The Algerian society, an ideologically hostile environment Cultural assertions in an Arab and Islamist environment In Algeria, since its (...)continue

Democracy

2 June 2010

Provisional Kabyle government: List of members

PROVISIONAL KABYLE GOVERNMENT G-P-K LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT The formation of GPK follows three main constraints: Trust, fairness between the three major sub regional entities Kabyle (Tuvirett, Tizi-Ouzou and Vgayet), an (...)continue

1 June 2010

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East’s Kurdish issue? (Part I)

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East’s Kurdish issue? - Last Part The existence of diverse Maghreb "cultures" has for a long time been ignored by official discourses. Ethno-sociological studies have been (...)continue

America

30 May 2010

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 (...)continue

Europe

1 May 2010

The map is not the territory

Michel Gurfinkiel, writer, political analyst and president of Jean Jacques Rousseau Institute, in his last column refers to Kabylia and its temporary Government. "The map is not the territory," said the Polish-American logician Albert (...)continue

16 April 2010

Kabylia: repression and a plan for autonomy

KABYLIA: REPRESSION AND A PLAN FOR AUTONOMY By Dimitri DOMBRET, ESISC Research Associate Many demonstrations are expected to take place on 20 April 2010, in Algeria, most notably in Tizi-Ouzou, Vgayet and Bouira, to commemorate the (...)continue

9 February 2010

Pseudo-state Algeria: A Monstrous, Pan-Arab Tyranny, Exposed by HRW (World Report 2010)

Algeria cannot exist. This fake state is a colonial fabrication, a territory illegally detached by the French gangsters from its correct place, e.g. the Ottoman Empire, that corrsponds to absolutely no national vow. French colonialism (...)continue

Celebration

12 January 2010

MAK’s Victorious Marches in Kabylia

To begin a new year of struggle for autonomy of Kabylia, the MAK has once again challenged the racist regime of Bouteflika by organizing two successful marches in Vgayet and Tizi-Ouzou. Despite repression and insecurity sustained by (...)continue

Education

5 January 2010

Berber North Africa: The Hidden Mediterranean Culture

Who are the Berbers? Since time immemorial, North Africa has been inhabited by the indigenous people known as Imazighen*. These Berber populations, across northern Africa, have known a series of invasions and occupations that date (...)continue

Discrimination

25 December 2009

Apology Not Accepted...

Among his other sources of conflict with members of the Tribe are his persistently, one-sided takes on Arab-Israeli issues culminating in his book equating Israel with the former apartheid regime of South Africa. Carter claims (...)continue

22 December 2009

Kabyle identity in France

Everyone agrees that the identity, no matter what the component (roots, membership in a society and its values, facies ...) is now vital to the growth and balance of every human, from every nation. Preserving its identity is assuring (...)continue

Tunisia

18 December 2009

Tunisia denies access to the MAK Leader Ferhat Mehenni

On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 2009, Ferhat Mehenni, Kabyle MAK (Movement for the autonomy of Kabylia ) leader has been held back at the Tunisian airport Tunis-Carthage, and escorted (...)continue

Asia - north africa

7 November 2009

The Symptom Instead Of The Disease

Recently, my youngest daughter, Elana Judith, came down with a case of the flu—probably swine flu, says the doctor. While we were discussing various treatments, he emphasized the importance of not simply masking the (...)continue

1 August 2009

The 128th martyr of the Black Spring

FARID ACID The 128th martyr of the Black Springr Farid Acid, a youth from Tizi-Ghennif (80km South West from Kabylia’s capital Tizi-Ouzou), just died. Bearly 21 years of age, during the event of the Kabyle Black Spring of 2001, (...)continue

Ecology

27 July 2009

Kabylia :Hell of Summer 2009

Every year since the re-deployment of the Army in Kabylia, the next day following the “re-election” of Bouteflika in 2004, summer and holiday period is a crafted hell by permanent criminal arsens. Eyes witnesses have (...)continue

Arabism

16 July 2009

Muhammad’s Monsters: The War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa

The transformation of the broad Mideastern environment was a process of many centuries that culminated in the defacing and refashioning of many lands and peoples. Byzantine Asia Minor, Armenian Anatolia, and much of Kurdistan, became (...)continue

3 July 2009

Berbers, Islam & Christianity

The cause of the Berbers is hardly known in this country. The writer Kateb Yacine, a Berber who refused to write in Arabic, but chose French, is celebrated in France, especially among Berbers-but unknown in this country, and his (...)continue

Racism

26 June 2009

Culture of Hate: A Racism which Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims

This hate, which suppresses freedom of thought, and condemns difference, calls itself "Islamic jihad." It draws on religious texts whose interpretation other Muslims dispute. Moreover, because these moderate Muslims challenge this (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

Morocco

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

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 (...)continue

16 December 2008

US Aid to Africa: Tell Phillip Carter III to Stop Saying Shameful Lies!

A shameful and disreputable representative of America’s most racist elites, who is a former ambassador to several African countries, gave - a few days ago - two speeches in order to embellish the role played by America in Africa. (...)continue

Aures

12 December 2008

Amirouche : the Chawi protest singer

Amirouche, more rebellious than ever, mature and committed, will mark his new album with profound, actual, and rooted lyrics, marked with fights and claims, singing T’Kout the martyr, the Aures of his childhood and his children (...)continue

12 December 2008

The Arab child well worth a travel

En francais Morocco’s Minister of Health, Mohamed Cheikh Biadillah, went to the international Arab Child Health conference which opened in Riyadh. He had to assist to the Arab Children Health Congress. The meeting was (...)continue

9 December 2008

The age of reason will revolutionize Algeria

Below is Thomas Paine’s outstanding book on God, Deism, Nature, Christianity, the Bible, Judaism, etc., The Age of Reason. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Deism. With this important book, Thomas Paine (...)continue

world

7 December 2008

Of Mumbai And Beyond...

The recent atrocities committed in Mumbai, India in the name of the ongoing quest for the spread of the Arab and Arabizeds’ Dar ul-Islam is merely a continuation of a war waged by Muhammed’s followers for about fourteen (...)continue

2 December 2008

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Commander Urges Algerian Mujahideen to Fight Christian Berbers

Al-Qaeda in Iraq Commander Urges Algerian Mujahideen to Fight Christian Berbers Abu Turab Al-Jaza’iri, an Algerian jihadist who claims to be a commander in Al-Qaeda in Iraq, recently posted a letter on the Shumukh Al-Islam (...)continue

27 November 2008

It’s Likely the Prophet Muhammad Never Existed

MÜNSTER, Germany — Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years (...)continue

16 November 2008

Ask my mom !

en francais Kamal Mezoued is a Kabyle born and raised up in Algeria. For the last 15 years he has been leaving in France where he works as a “specialised educator” [2] He relates here the stormy story of his (...)continue

Lybia

9 November 2008

Libya and the confiscated lands of Imazighen

The last two years an investment plans under taken by the Libyan government and supported by the Arab investors from the UAE (United Arab Emirates) planning to reconcile a project that will integrates under roof of developing special (...)continue

2 November 2008

Tales From The Inside...The Real Problem With Obama’s Khalidi

This is the weekend when Americans set clocks back an hour for daylight savings time. Thus, I guess it’s only fitting that, given all the current fuss about the Los Angeles Times’s refusal to make public even a (...)continue

30 October 2008

Forbiden entry into Algeria for the Moroccan Berbers

CMA Tizi-Ouzou Upon arrival at Algiers airport Wednesday the 29 of October 2008, thirty-five members of a delegation of representatives from moroccan Berbers associations, among them Rashid RAHA and Me Adgherni (President of the (...)continue

Neocolonialism

20 October 2008

Algeria, the colonization restarted

Does the Algerian dictatorship fit the interests of the West? Through the reading of the following article, the answer is evidently yes. What kind of future could the Algerian people await when their dictatorship is supported by (...)continue

Justice

19 October 2008

The ten prisoners’ activists of the Berber cause heavily condemned to 32 years of the prison

Morocco, the Ameknas lawcourt: The ten prisoners’ activists of the amazigh/Berber cause heavily condemned to 32 years of the prison. After more than one year and half of the carryforward of the lawsuit of the students arrested (...)continue

17 October 2008

Happened in Algeria :Four Years Of Imprisonment For Non-Respect Of Ramadan

On Tuesday October 7, 2008, a human rights defender reported that six people in Algeria have been accused of non-respect of Muslims Ramadan fasting, and have been sentenced to four years in prison each by the court of Biskra (420 Km (...)continue

24 September 2008

MAK Release - The Police Of Zerhouni

On Monday, September 22 nd, 2008, the Algerian police department has made a raid into a library in Tizi Wuzu where members of World Amazigh Congress (CMA) were holding a press coference .An ardent and arrogant police chief with his (...)continue

24 September 2008

Amazigh Names Rejected by the Authorities in Tizi-Wuzu

Nobody has expected such a scorn case of the Amazigh (Berber) identity denial at the heart of kabylia. The officials of the public record department or the civil status of the city of Tizi-Wuzu are not at their first misdemeanor. In (...)continue

22 September 2008

Morocco drives out its Berbers, then spies on them.

The furore erupted after the dismissal of the Rotterdam police officer, Re Lemhaouli, following allegations that the policeman had been passing information to the Moroccan Secret Service via the embassy in The Hague. The Dutch (...)continue

19 September 2008

Amazigh democratic party wrote to the president of the European Parliament, Mr. Hans-Gert POTTENG, about human rights violation in Morocco

To Mr. Hans-Gert POTTENG, President of the European Parliament, The Members of The European Parliament Subject: Human Rights in Morocco The European Union is linked to Morocco by an "Association Agreement" which entered into force (...)continue

Language - Catalonia

16 September 2008

International Meeting on Amazighe toponymy

Observatori Català de la Llengua Amaziga (Catalan Observatory for the Amazigh language ) International Meeting on Amazigh toponymy, Barcelona the 6, 7 and 8 November 2008 The standardization of Tamazight is one of the main areas of (...)continue

4 September 2008

Exclusive: Incredulous UN Bans Criticism of Islam

The Human Rights Council at the United Nations has now banned any criticism regarding Sharia Law and human rights in the Islamic World According to President Doru Romulus Costea - and following the efforts of delegates from Egypt, (...)continue

22 August 2008

A Lesson From Kosovars And Palestinians For Atlasians...

Now tell me...What would you do in the age of nationalism—which came relatively late to the Middle East—if your national group already had almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of territory (conquered (...)continue

6 August 2008

Of Kurds And Arabs: Beyond Ignorance...The Allegedly Free Press

If it was just another State Department travesty, I could accept it. After all, I’m used to the Foggy Folks doing such things as fighting President Truman over his supporting Israel’s very rebirth; concocting latter (...)continue

3 August 2008

A coalition of Islamic states is using the United Nations to enact international ’anti-defamation’ rules

Asma Fatima, a petite, bespectacled Pakistani diplomat in Washington, sat at the front of a crowded Capitol Hill hearing room on July 18, carefully considering whether a man seated a few places to her left on the panel should be (...)continue

18 July 2008

The kabyle people: a blind colonized

fr | Le peuple kabyle : un colonisé aveugle The kabyle people is not aware that it is colonized because this colonization is pernicious, insidious and takes a legal and legitimate forme. The kabyle people believes it suffers simply an (...)continue

17 July 2008

French minister denounces burqa

Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said she hoped last month’s ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wives". She told the newspaper, Le Parisien, the head-to-toe garment was a "prison". The (...)continue

8 July 2008

The first global University that teaches Tamazight Journalism and media

The fact that the European educational institutions specialising in journalism and media studies lack departments of Moroccan journalism and media in general and Tamazight journalism in particular prompted La hay global university for (...)continue

8 July 2008

Kabylia in the Path of Autonomy: the Best Ally for Oromos, Sidamas and Ogadenis

The Proposition of Kabylia Autonomy Project (KAP) elaborated by MAK (:Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia or - in Amazigh - Timanit I Tmurt N Yeqvayliyen), and the Charter of the MAK for the Rights of the Kabylian People and Kabylia (...)continue

6 July 2008

Kabylia’s Berbers, the Brethren of the Kuchitic Oromos and Sidamas, Demand Autonomy in Algeria

A great moment for the long targeted, colonized, subjugated, tyrannized and dehumanized Hammitic Nations of Africa was marked a few days ago, when the Movement for Autonomy of Kabylia, led by the famous Kabyle intellectual, artist and (...)continue

6 July 2008

Builders erase Mecca’s history

Some of Islam’s historic sites in Mecca, possibly including a home of the Prophet Mohammad, are under threat from Saudi real estate developers and Wahhabi Muslims who view them as promoting idolatry. Mr Sami Angawi, an expert on (...)continue

29 June 2008

International press conference , invitation

A representative delegation of Berber-organisations in Kabylia ( Algeria ) , Morocco and the Tuareg-people ( Mali & Niger ) is coming up to meet representative elected members of the European Commission , the Flemish Parliament and (...)continue

16 June 2008

Algerian Dissident Journalist Arezki Ait Larbi: Stop "Witchcraft Trials" For Christians in Algeria

In the western Algerian city of Tiaret, a 37-year-old convert to Christianity is currently on trial for "practicing a non-Muslim religion without authorization," under a 2006 law regulating the religious practice of non-Muslims. The (...)continue

29 May 2008

Boualem Sansal - Nazism and Islamism

En Francais As I pursued my research on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, I had more and more the feeling of a similarity between Nazism and the prevailing order in Algeria and in many Muslim and Arab countries. You find the same (...)continue

24 May 2008

Fifteen Years Ago, Tahar Djaout, a Beautiful Star, Was Wiped out of our Sky

A native of Azzefoun, Kabylia, Tahar Djaout moved to Algiers to complete his elementary and secondary school. He later obtained a Bachelor in Mathematics, and another in Information Science and Communication. He became a career (...)continue

5 May 2008

Some revelations about American colonization

An interview by Thomas Fleming with Dr. Barry Fell of Harvard University appeared in The Reader’s Digest in 1977. In this article Fleming stated that although most Americans believe that their history began with Christopher (...)continue

4 May 2008

Nakba Crapka...

Honigman... How can you be so insensitive!!!??? Perhaps the following will help explain... The lunar Hebrew calendar date for Israel Independence Day (May 14, 1948) falls on May 8th this year. The resurrected nation of (...)continue

28 April 2008

All In A Day’s News...

by Gerald A. Honigman Along with other related articles, three covering the Middle East and North Africa caught my eye on April 26th. The first was (...)continue

27 April 2008

Jihad against North Africa: The Arab Muslim aggression against the Berbers of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco

The Berbers were the ancient indigenous people of North Africa west of Egypt. They were made up of many tribes, but they managed to maintain their culture, their Hamitic languages, and considerable military power during successive (...)continue

18 April 2008

Evidence for the Ancestors of the Guanches as Founders of Predynastic Egypt.

The Mariners of Elysium: Evidence for the Ancestors of the Guanches as Founders of Predynastic Egypt Preface The Guanches, Nordic Caucasians with similarity to, or descended from, Cro-Magnon stock who dwelled in the Canary Isles, (...)continue

12 April 2008

Tafsut Imazighen New Jersey & Chicago

Azemz: As n 19 Yebrir, 2008 3:00 allam d 11:00 n yiḍ. Amḍiq: Days Inn, Hillsborough, NJ US Highway 206 Hillsborough NJ 08844 Tel.: 908 685 9000 Tagburt: Tafsut tayeḍ i Imaziɣen Tamdyazt Aznuzu n (...)continue

Election

11 April 2008

McCain and Peas Of The Same Pod Choices.

Prior to Senator McCain’s recent trip to Iraq and Israel, I was in communication with his office regarding the James Baker endorsement and earlier statements made by the Senator in praise of this blatant anti-Semite and (...)continue

Book review

10 April 2008

Kurdistan is Up, Oh Tamazgha My Dream!

After dark centuries of struggle and oppression, the Kurds in a wretched country called Iraq are now achieving what no petrodollar Arab state in the Middle East has ever dreamed of doing. Thiers is a success story and another historic (...)continue

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