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Kabylia - Europe - Autonomy

The map is not the territory

1 May 2010

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 Korzybski. Geological, military, road, political, maps "represents" space selectively, thus approximate. But more often, we forget this obvious truth. A first (...)continue

Algeria - 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 (...)continue

Dictatorship

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

Morocco - 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

Racism - Democracy

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

Kabylia - 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

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

Arabism - Colonialism

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

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

Genocide

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

Identity

17 May 2007

Arab World ? A Myth!

And this brings me to the idea of the arab world: I remember vaguely that I was told some folks in Algiers and surrounding area spoke a strange language, a mixture of berber and Arabic... Although theses people were berbers, I know (...)continue

Conflict

2 March 2007

Progenitor of Wars and Tyrannies: the Falsehood of Pan-Arabism

(fr) Ancêtre des guerres et de la tyrannie : le mensonge Pan-Arabiste The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition by France and England of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques (...)continue

21 February 2007

When will the Arabic-Islamic colonialism end?

All the Amazighs (Berbers) in Algeria-the Kabylians, Chaouis, Touregs, Chenouis and the Mzabs-have always been and continue to be the victims of Islamist colonialism for 14 centuries, since the death of Dihia ( A Berber Queen who (...)continue

Terrorism

26 October 2006

Wake up, Kabyle Politicians

As thought the Kabyles have not lived through pain and suffering for a long time... So I am asking myself how and why so many do not seem to see problems, either because they cannot or are unaware of what is happening... unless they (...)continue

3 October 2006

In front of Islamic intimidations, what should the free world do ?

(Philosopher and teacher in St Orens de Gameville - about to publish "Breakdown and philosophy" (ed. Pleins Feux) The reactions triggered by Benedict XVI on Islam and violence are part of the attempt made by Islam to kill the (...)continue

6 August 2006

The Islamization of America: From Mecca to Medina and conquering Americans from within

Many times the Ottoman Empire tried to take over the whole of Europe but failed to do so. The Ottoman Empire could not conquer the West by sword, but now Muslims are using a different strategy to conquer the West to bring it under the (...)continue

19 June 2006

North Africa’s Worsening Divisions

When going through the news originating from North Africa, day in and day out, it is difficult to ignore the stories that emphasize the deepening divisions between the region’s nations. Surely the economies of the Maghreb are (...)continue

17 June 2006

Tales of Darfur and Racist Zionists!

Tucked into an article on page nine of my local Florida paper on June 15th was a classic line...but I doubt if it was noticed or sunk in to most who even got to read it. It was, after all, nowhere near front page or an op-ed, (...)continue

28 April 2006

North Africa’s Own Defense Buildup: Regional Risk or Legitimate Decision?

Next year, after defense analysts tally the 2006 numbers, they will see a major spike in North Africa’s defense spending. While the region’s combined spending has evolved in an erratic way over the past years with (...)continue

13 April 2006

The tarbaby of Iraq and the islamization of Europe

The tarbaby of Iraq has prevented the American administration from turning its attention to, or even beginning to grasp, the menace of Europe’s islamization. It has to do several things after it gets out of Iraq and lets the (...)continue

Research

29 March 2006

"Arab sciences" at the IMA (Institute of the Arab world) : revanchist propaganda

en francais Or how Persian scientists are suddenly naturalized "Arab" The exhibition " The golden age of the Arab science ", which has just closed its doors at "l’Institut du Monde Arabe (Institut of the Arab World, Paris), (...)continue

Discrimination

24 March 2006

A foolish new attraction to oppressive Arab nationalism

A foolish new attraction to oppressive Arab nationalism By Rayyan al-Shawaf We are at a critical juncture in the history of the Middle East and North Africa. The continuing and oftentimes violent debate over Iraq’s national and (...)continue

20 March 2006

The New Anti-Semitism

There is a well-worn platitude that we have all heard many times before: it is perfectly legitimate to criticize the actions and policies of the state of Israel or the doctrines of Zionism without necessarily being motivated by (...)continue

Development

18 March 2006

The future of Kabylia

There are countries which after interior tearings (political, linguistic, cultural and social) quickly understood that the solution to live in peace and harmony, was regional autonomy. And so its application posed any problem, neither (...)continue

20 February 2006

The cultural imperialism of the Arabs

Within Islam, a supposedly universalist religion where all Muslims in the ummah are equal, there is a special place for the Arabs. But how could it be otherwise? Islam itself, a mishmash of pagan Arab lore, Judaism and Christianity, (...)continue

Language

17 February 2006

Language and Conflict: Kabylia and the Algerian State

.... 2. The language situation in Algeria 2.1 Arabic and arabicization Algeria defines itself as part of the Arab and Muslim world. The majority of the populationa re Arabophone and speak a vernacular variety of Arabic. In (...)continue

11 February 2006

Tyrannical Ramadhan as part of Islamic Terrorism

In a previous article, entitled ‘Abolish your fake Ramadhan, stupid!’, we developed in a summarizing way the various aspects of the distressing reality of today’s Ramadhan as mostly practiced by the analphabetic, uncultured (...)continue

11 February 2006

Abolish your fake Ramadhan, stupid!

Ramadhan fasting as a religious duty for Muslims Already in the Coran’s second chapter Al Baqara (the Cow, verse 185) it is stated that the Coran was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadhan, which makes of course the (...)continue

Education

25 January 2006

Tifinagh Script Issue

Professor of Tamazight (Berber) and director of the Berber research center (CRB) in Inalco (Paris), Salem Chaker remains one of the architects of the standardization of Tamazight. He has organized several meetings of Amazigh language (...)continue

25 January 2006

Reconciliation in Algeria and the Kabyle Question

President Bouteflika of Algeria is going on a domestic political offensive with the central theme being reconciliation. However, his strategy has yet to convince the world that he is on the right track. Bouteflika is working to drum up (...)continue

25 January 2006

Will the Kabyle sun raise in Iraqi Kurdistan?

From the outset, what is common between Kabylia, a mountainous Berber region in the western Mediterranean and Kurdistan, a mountainous region in the Middle East? However, if we look closely, the parallel fate that history has reserved (...)continue

25 January 2006

How “Berber” Matters

In the rugged mountains south of Marrakech the lives of Berber-speaking farmers move in what seems a timeless rhythm. Men manipulate intricate stone canals, drawing water to small terraced plots of barley and maize. Women in bangles (...)continue

25 October 2005

A Slain Berber Singer’s Voice

Head down into this city and there he is again, this time larger than life, in a poster mounted on a cafe wall while, of course, his voice booms from the stereo behind the counter. In shops, offices, restaurants - everywhere in this (...)continue

25 August 2005

Interview with W. B. Quandt

William B. Quandt served for many years on the National Security Council and was actively involved in the Camp David Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty. In the fall of 1994, Quandt joined the Department of Government and (...)continue

17 November 2004

A Cultural Reappraisal

The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa: A Cultural Reappraisal Berber culture and the cultures of historically rooted North African minority groups (Jewish, Coptic, Turkish, among others) are not common foci of study in (...)continue

8 September 2004

At last, an ancient tongue will be taught

FEZ, MOROCCO - "What is it?" asks first-grade teacher Malki Abderrahmane, as he points to a hieroglyphic letter in pink chalk on the wall. "It’s the free man!" exclaims the classroom full of six-year-olds. The letter "yaz," (...)continue

7 August 2004

Algeria’s torment

ALGERIA, a country rich in human and natural resources, has been suffering from simultaneous crises of bad governance, injustice inflicted upon a large Berber minority, and a savage internecine war between Islamic extremists and a (...)continue

30 August 1998

The Berbers: fighting on two fronts

The Berbers have tended to be forgotten during the brutal conflict which has torn Algeria apart over the last six years. It is however becoming apparent that the region is experiencing the worst unrest since the Berber uprising 18 (...)continue

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