Regional
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Morocco
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Identity
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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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Opinion
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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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Politics
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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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Human rights
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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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Human rights
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Democracy
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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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Human rights
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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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International
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Islam
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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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International
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 (...)
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Regional
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Justice
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Colonialism
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 (...)
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Europe
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 (...)
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Human rights
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Europe
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 (...)
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Extra
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Video
14 July 2008
Morocco Amazigh and autonomy
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Children
12 May 2008
When Will Godot Come to Kids in Anefgu?
"The tears of the world are constant quality. For each one who begin to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of a laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us (...)
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Regional
15 January 2008
Arabist repression against Amazigh students
Azul damghnas
Best and warm regards to the real martyrs of morocco and those of the armed resistance and the independance army mainly.
Best and militant regards to the martyrs of our fair and free cause in all of tamazgha.
Shocking (...)
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Music
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Portrait
27 December 2007
”muha “ : First Album released for the Group” Saghru”
Finally an album which approaches the mythical “Tiwira N yigenna” * has just released. The singer ,artist phenomenon Mbarek Oulaarbi with his “Saghru “group has just released his first album .An Amazigh (...)
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International
11 October 2007
The Amazigh Cultural Movement of Morocco Under Attack
Violence recently erupted between so-called Arabist and Amazigh students at several universities in Morocco namely Taza, Meknes, Agadir, Marakesh and Tizi-n-Imnayen. This has led to many serious injuries and one death among the (...)
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Lifestyle
10 September 2007
Amazigh textiles and dress in Morocco: metaphors of motherhood
Berber women are artists. They weave brightly colored carpets, and they adorn their faces, hands, and ankles with tattoos, dye their hands and feet with henna henna, name for a reddish or black hair dye obtained from the powdered (...)
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International
10 September 2007
Debate about a Newly-Formed Berber-Jewish Friendship Association in Morocco
Following are excerpts from a debate on the newly-established Berber-Jewish friendship association in Morocco, which aired on Al-Alam TV on July 21, 2007:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1518.htm
Interviewer: Why are the Amazigh (...)
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Regional
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Conflict
28 May 2007
Morocco: authorities suppress Berberist students
Today’s conditions in which the Moroccan Amazigh people live remind us of the Kabylia in 1980s. Indeed, in that black period of the Algerian history, Kabylian people underwent all sorts of aggression, manipulation, and (...)
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Regional
3 May 2007
The berbers vs the barbarians
The attackers had used bayonets (sabres, stones, bars of iron, bill hooks and clubs) to prevent the amazigh students from very commemorating the twenty-seventh birthday of the symbolic “amazigh spring ” and the sixth (...)
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