Politics
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Kabylia
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Media
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USA
5 September 2010
Dissident Watch: Ferhat Mehenni
In the West since the eighteenth century, political change has often been stimulated by protest songs. In recent decades, Joan Baez made "We Shall Overcome" into the American civil rights movement’s anthem. In Portugal, the (...)
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International
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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 (...)
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International
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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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International
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Diaspora
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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Poetry
13 August 2008
Six poems by Ahcene Mariche
I will be your shadow
My step will follow close to yours
I will be your shadow, henceforth
You walk and I follow you
You sit and I fold
I’ll never leave you, it’s bound to happen
Until night falls
You will find me at (...)
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Europe
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Language
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Europe
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 (...)
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International
2 December 2007
The New Mass Media and the Shaping of Amazigh Identity
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, new communication technology has revolutionized every sociopolitical and economic sector. This technological progress does not necessarily reflect social and economic progress ; (...)
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Human rights
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Algeria
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Justice
2 June 2007
Incriminating evidence
Revelations of a former conscience prisoner:
Lambèse: the medieval Alcatraz
July 5th, 1985, Algeria celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its independence. The martyrs’ children that formed non-legalized associations, because (...)
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News
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Democracy
1 May 2007
World Press Freedom Day, Mohamed Benchicou’s press release
World Press Freedom Day
Mohamed Benchicou’s press release
"Tell the truth ... "
Even if it means dissatisfying forgetful minds, stooge or wincing persons, it is going to be necessary for us to tell the truth on this (...)
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Regional
28 April 2007
ATTACK TO THE PRESS LIBERTY: THE FRIEDRICH EBERT FUNDATION INDESIRABLE IN KABYLIA?
The superintendant principal of Police Station (Safety) of Tizi-Ouzou, certainely acted under the order of the Governor, made an "incursion" in the village hall "Aquastar" of Tizi-Ouzou where thirty press correspondants of the East of (...)
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News
27 April 2007
Arezki Aït Larbi arrested at Algiers airport
Arerzki Aït Larbi was arrested today April 26 at ten o’clock at Algiers airport. He was on the point of taking seat on board an airplane of the company Aigle Azure bound for Paris. Challenged to the level of the PAF (police force (...)
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International
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Egypt
21 November 2006
Egypt: New concerns about freedom of expression
Abdel Karim Sulaiman Amer was summoned to appear before the office of the Public Prosecutor in Maharram Bek district of the city of Alexandria on 7 November following a complaint reportedly made against him by al-Azhar University. He (...)
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Europe
9 August 2006
Berbers battle on the internet
When Asis and Ahmed Aynan’s mother took a flight to Morocco the other day, all the announcements were in Arabic and French. She went over to the pilot and asked him whether next time, he could do it in Berber, too. This incident, (...)
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International
17 June 2006
Danish PM Shocked By Investigation Of Mayors Over Letter
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was shocked to learn that 56 Turkish mayors were under investigation for urging him to resist pressure from Ankara to close down an allegedly pro-Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (...)
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Human rights
9 March 2006
Activists Condemn Curbs On Internet
Rights groups have condemned several Arab governments for blocking websites devoted to freedom of speech on political and social issues, calling the move an attempt to limit the free exchange of information.
"Most Arab governments (...)
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Human rights
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Tunisia
9 March 2006
Freedom of Expression Groups Urge Authorities to Release Mohammed Abbou And All Other Prisoners of Opinion
The following is a 1 March 2006 joint declaration by members of the IFEX-TMG:
On the first anniversary of the jailing of Tunisian internet writer, lawyer and human rights activist Mohammed Abbou, international freedom of expression (...)
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Regional
9 March 2006
Journalist Sentenced to Six Months in Prison, Another Released; RSF Urges European Parliament to Take Diplomatic Steps to Press for Free Expression
The following is a 2 March 2006 RSF letter to European Parliament President Josep Borrell Fontelles:
On the eve of Josep Borrell’s official visit to Algeria from 6-12 March 2006, Reporters Without Borders called on the President (...)
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Music
12 February 2006
Amazigh (Berber) beat box
Not all of North Africa’s besieged native muses become, in the words of the new edition to the Rough Guide to World Music reference book, "The Bards of Immigritude."
While Andy Morgan’s chapter focuses on Kabylia, the (...)
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Regional
12 February 2006
Prison sentence for Ali Dilem, the famous caricaturist
The chronicler of Liberte-dz, Mustapha Hammouche, profited from a release, after lawsuit in call for offence towards the president of the Republic.
The court thus confirmed the verdict of 24 May 2005, pronounced against Mustapha (...)
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International
1 February 2006
World’s Press Criticises Arab Pressure on Danish Newspaper
The World Association of Newspapers today (15 November) called on the summit meeting of the Islamic Conference in December to drop from its agenda an item concerning caricatures of Mohammed that were published in a Danish newspaper. (...)
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