Music
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Kabylia
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Portrait
27 May 2009
Yelas new album: (sliyid) listen to me
Incandescences
Hair in a mess , passionate gaze and always a guitar in his hands. YELAS means ’omnipresent’, at the moment in berber (amazigh) music , he’s definitely one of the most innovative artists. A few years a (...)
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Opinion
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Algeria
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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Education
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Tamazgha
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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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 (...)
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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 (...)
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Painting
16 February 2008
ISSIAKHEM M’Hamed
En Francais
ISSIAKHEM M’Hamed was born on June 17th, 1928 in Taboudoucht (village Aït Djennad, Azeffoun) in Kabylia. From 1931 he spends his childhood in Relizane. In 1943 he treats a grenade, stolen in a military camp, which (...)
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Music
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Morocco
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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Diaspora
25 November 2007
Khadija Azalam: woman of the involvement
You were born and raised in Holland, how we become amazigh activist in these conditions?
Thank you for your response. Indeed, I am born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When I was twelve I started to get interested in my (...)
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History & Civilisation
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Identity
24 January 2007
History of Jihad Against the Berbers of North Africa (640 - 711)
According to al-Bukhari [d. 869] an early Muslim jurist; Some of the more salient features of dhimmitude include: the prohibition of arms for the vanquished non-Muslims (dhimmis), and ringing of church bells; restrictions concerning (...)
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Origin - Chronology
10 December 2006
Interview with Karl-G. Prasse
Q: Would you, kindly, introduce yourself to our audience ?
Prof.: I am trained as an Egyptologist in the beginning and I started studying comparative and general linguistics at the university of Copenhagen. After two years time, I (...)
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Music
18 November 2006
Meksa, a legend
Meksa, 18 years! It’s too long! Abdelkader Meksa died 18 years ago, and with his death, disappeared a legend.
Loundja and Zelgoum are orphans like te curent people that don’t hear about him. Early, in 1974, with Idir, he (...)
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7 October 2006
Dahlia, The Berber Queen Who Stood Up To Islam
A woman who faced her enemies while empires crumbled, one of the most famous yet elusive women in history, Dahlia was a Berber queen. She is better known as Kahina or al-Kahinat, a title given to her by Arabs, which means "witch". (...)
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Poetry
28 July 2006
Moshe Benarroch
Moshe Benarroch was born in Tetuan, Morocco, in 1959. He moved to Israel as an adolescent. Moshe Benarroch lives in Jerusalem and writes in Hebrew, English, and Spanish. His twelve books (nine are in Hebrew, three in English and one in (...)
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International
18 July 2006
Zidane: " I am still proud to be who I am, first a Kabyle from La Castellan..."
The blank, dusty streets and high-rise tower blocks of La Castellane, a council estate in the northern suburbs of Marseille, are what is officially known in French as a quartier difficile, a sensitive zone. Most of the population here (...)
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Sports
24 March 2006
Zidane: A Sports Legend
A Sports Legend
Destined Sports Legend French society was changed forever July 19th, 1998. It was the championship game of the coveted World Cup tournament hosted by France. France was to face Brazil, a soccer giant that ignites (...)
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Society
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Research
20 March 2006
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Autobiography
I was born on April 1, 1933 in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangiers, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition. In (...)
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Portraits
25 January 2006
Juba II, Amazigh King
A young King’s boy, who stemming from a Numidian root was born and educated inside a Greek-Roman niche, had the opportunity to influence both culture and development of his country.
Juba the Second was a brilliant well educated (...)
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Literature
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Language
25 January 2006
Apuleius of Madauros
Apuleius of Madaurus wrote in the language of the Roman conquerors of North Africa. However, Apuleius was not a Roman. He was a native of North Africa and proud of it. Little has been made of his "Berber" origins, and the fact that he (...)
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Portraits
8 August 2005
Masinissa
Masinissa (also spelled Massinissa), ruler of the North African kingdom of Numidia, and an ally of Rome in the last years of the Second Punic War (218-201). He was the son of Gaia, king of the Massyli, one of three Berber/Numidian (...)
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