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Kabylia - USA

New Ally Against al Qaeda

8 July 2010

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 government was established in the first place. What the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia [MKA] has been protesting is the Islamization of their society that the (...)continue

Kabylia - Media - USA - 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

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

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

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

Algeria - Colonialism

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

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

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

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

Autonomy - America

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

Tamazgha

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

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

Identity

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

Morocco - 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

Celebration

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

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

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 (...)continue

Genocide - Africa

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

Racism

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

Terrorism - 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

Arabism

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

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

Democracy

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

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

Religion

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

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

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

1 March 2008

My Friends, Dare To Think About What The Future Could Be...

I cannot condemn Ankara’s decision to invade Iraqi Kurdistan anymore than I could condemn Israel’s decision to go after Arabs who target Jews from Gaza, Judea and Samaria (renamed only recently in history the “West (...)continue

21 February 2008

United Nations experts welcome Australia’s apology to indigenous peoples

United Nations experts welcome Australia’s apology to indigenous peoples The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people; the UN Special Rapporteur on (...)continue

10 December 2007

The Problem With Darfur’s Muslims Is...

They’re Not Arabs. Like Iraq’s Kurds or North Africa’s Amazigh (Berbers). The title of a recent AP news brief read, “EU May Not Heed Darfur Call.” (...)continue

Europe

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 ; (...)continue

Justice

5 November 2007

Our Kurdish Friends

Have you heard about Abu Alaa? Well, his story really begins, for those non-Arabians reading these tales, when Israel’s Rabin shook hands with his dear friend and colleague, Arafat, at President Clinton’s prompting. (...)continue

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 (...)continue

Video

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 (...)continue

20 July 2007

Stop to the Islamization Of Europe :SEPTEMBER 11th - INTERNATIONAL DEMO

SEPTEMBER 11th - INTERNATIONAL DEMO BRUSSELSDEMO-NEWS AIMS OF THE MARCH 9/11 The understandable enthusiasm for the SIOE Demo (Stop to the Islamization Of Europe) has encouraged people to make many suggestions. The Demo has these main (...)continue

17 July 2007

The Root Cause of Terrorism is The Culture of Hate

Baseless Excuses for Terrorism In an article titled "How the Arabs Explain the Terror Phenomenon" in the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Al-Ansari criticized the ways in which the Arab world denies and ignores the phenomenon of terrorism, and (...)continue

7 June 2007

The Women’s Collective of the Black Spring of Kabylia

The Amazighs of Algeria The Amazighs (Berbers) have existed in North Africa since the prehistoric era. A vast and rich territory, the land of the Amazighs became very desirable. Since antiquity, North Africa has experienced many waves (...)continue

27 April 2007

World Amazigh Congress: Letter to Kadafi

Mr Mouammar Kadhafi Leader of the Libyan Jamahiriya Tripoli-Libya April 11th, 2007 I do not know if it is by choice that you expressed yourself on the Amazigh question in this symbolic day, for you, of March 2, 2007, which is the (...)continue

19 March 2007

Ladies First by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Bigotry has not been eliminated, but a great deal of Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream has been achieved in America. In large part because of the energy and activism of groups such as the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). But (...)continue

Lybia

12 March 2007

International campaign to support the Amazigh rights in Libya

Condemnation and Conviction Petition We, the undersigned individuals and groups, declare to the local and the international public opinion as well as to all regional and international human rights and international humanitarian (...)continue

5 February 2007

Don’t shoot the film in Kurdish

The famous Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi who has been chosen as one of the top living 100 filmmakers in the world last year will no longer be able to shoot a film in Iran according to the decision of Cinema Office of Iranian Culture (...)continue

9 January 2007

Kurds should never forget their own mountains

Mahmoud Othman, a prominent Kurdish MP in Baghdad who survived several assassination attempts by the former regime, criticised the Iraqi government’s apparent rush to carry out the death sentence before the end of the Anfal (...)continue

7 December 2006

The Secret Reasons of the Darfur Genocide: fake Arabic imposed on Non-Arabs

All people in Khartoum know already that they live the end of a long tyrannical experience; they have not identified the forthcoming solution, but they have the real feeling that the nightmare named ‘Sudan’ has already its expiry (...)continue

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 (...)continue

25 October 2006

Paranoia on route 66

Of all the nightmares which have befallen immigrants from the Islamic world since the September 11 attacks, those related in this short self-published memoir, Still Moments, are far from the most egregious. But the nearly surreal (...)continue

Canary Island - Ritual

23 September 2006

Egyptologists meet in La Laguna

Spanish Egyptologists were in La Laguna last week to attend a congress hosted by the university, one of the few in Spain which boasts a department of Egyptology. And it was the university’s plain-speaking professor of (...)continue

15 September 2006

Faith and reason in response to fanaticisms, according to Benoit xvl

In front of a floor of academics and researchers, the pope, in a capital theological text, submitted relationship between faith and reason a response to modern fanaticisms The world where Benoît XVI saw is a world crossed by the wars of (...)continue

5 September 2006

Take down that flag!

The courageous decision by President Masoud Barzani and the Kurdistan government to take down the infamous Iraqi flag wherever they exist in Kurdistan and fly only the Kurdistan flag throughout Kurdistan is a welcome decision and one (...)continue

Development

11 August 2006

From killing zone to safe haven

NO ONE was happier at the death in June of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the proclaimed leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, than Jamal Hussein. The morning before an American air-strike killed Iraq’s top terrorist, the 38-year-old civil servant (...)continue

3 August 2006

Washington Post Columnist’s Israel Mistake

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen, in a July 18 op-ed on the current fighting between Israel and Hizbullah (“Hunkering Down With History”), declared that Israel’s creation was a “mistake.” He based (...)continue

Portrait

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 (...)continue

17 July 2006

Blood borders: How a better Middle East would look

The most arbitrary and distorted borders in the world are in Africa and the Middle East. Drawn by self-interested Europeans (who have had sufficient trouble defining their own frontiers), Africa’s borders continue to provoke the (...)continue

8 July 2006

Why Zidane Will Win the World Cup

The title of this article started out as "Why Brazil will win the World Cup," but after the result of the first game against Croatia, I was very worried and decided to wait a bit more. I waited for Australia, Japan, and Ghana. Still (...)continue

23 June 2006

Kurdistan: Birth of a Nation?

Violence and suffering disfigure Iraq on a daily basis. But not everywhere is blighted. The Kurdish region is largely peaceful, and cities are beginning to thrive. So after decades of bloodshed, could its people’s goal of (...)continue

21 June 2006

East Timor, Montenegro, and the emerging Kurdistan

A number of events which have unfolded in the last five years have had profound implications for the future of the greater Kurdistan region. In 2002 the tiny territory of East Timor achieved independence from its giant neighbor (...)continue

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) (...)continue

16 June 2006

Case for provincial autonomy

THE federal minister for inter-provincial coordination struck the right note when he called for maximum autonomy to enable the provinces to run their own affairs. Mr Saleem Saifullah Khan was speaking in the context of Balochistan (...)continue

11 May 2006

Algeria: Berber Culture on the World Stage

Berber Culture on the World Stage: From Village to Video Examines Berber cultural identity and performance in Algeria, France, and on the world music scene. "[S]ure to interest a number of different audiences, from language and music (...)continue

9 May 2006

Independence no longer an impossible dream

WASHINGTON, DC - While the Kurds continue to reaffirm their commitment to ensuring victory in Iraq, and to assure their American friends and neighbors that they will not break away from Iraq, they cannot be so sure that Iraq (...)continue

2 May 2006

Political Transition in Mauritania

On 3 August 2005, a junta led by Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, director-general of the Sûreté National, and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, commander of the presidential security battalion, seized power in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The coup, (...)continue

31 March 2006

Arab League futility

THIS WEEK’S ARAB LEAGUE summit in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, appeared to validate the group’s reputation for idle chatter and obtuse decisions. If the site of the summit was not callous enough — the host (...)continue

27 February 2006

The Civil War Has Started

The Civil War in Iraq has started and the US planners had better get used to it. The bombing of the Shiite Askariya shrine on Wednesday and the reprisals that are continuing are a sure sign that there will be no accommodation of the (...)continue

Health

16 February 2006

Dead swans test positive for bird flu in Germany

Dead swans in Germany and Austria have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu, and Iran also confirmed an outbreak of the virus. In Germany, swans found on the island of Rügen came up positive for H5N1 in preliminary tests, and will be (...)continue

12 February 2006

Uncle Boutros and Uncle Tom - A Lesson In Arab Tolerance

My friend and scholar, Jerry Gordon, sent me a note the other day alerting me to Diane West’s great article in the The Washington Times referring to the essential historian, Bat Ye’or’s, writings on dhimmitude. (...)continue

11 February 2006

UN Reform and Languages: Strip Arabic from Undeserved Status

Whereas many discussions have focused so far on the UN SC permanent membership extension, little has been said about the six languages that the international body has had a means of international communication for no less than 60 (...)continue

Energy

3 February 2006

Foreign companies eye oil reserves in Kurdistan

IRBIL, Iraq - Kurdish officials are inviting foreign oil companies to explore untapped reserves in their northern region, angering Arab countrymen and raising concern about chaos in Iraq’s oil industry. Kurds, their self-ruled (...)continue

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. (...)continue

27 January 2006

Efforts Against Islamo-Fascism

Efforts Against Islamo-Fascism and Muslim Anti-Semitism At least 18 rallies will be held across the United States on Feb. 1 against « Islamo-fascism » anti-U.S. terrorism, and Saudi Arabian influence in U.S. government. The rallies (...)continue

26 January 2006

Ahmadinejad...Liar, Hypocrite, and/or Arabs’ Stooge?

Upon the death of Islam’s Prophet, Muhammad, in the early 7th century C.E., the armies of his caliphal successors burst out of the Arabian Peninsula and spread out in all directions. Over the next centuries—and continuing (...)continue

26 January 2006

Does the Arabic Language Encourage Radical Islam?

Native speakers of Arabic have long claimed that Arabic is far more than a language; rather, the language of Islam, the language chosen by God to speak to mankind, influences how a person perceives the world and expresses reality. (...)continue

25 January 2006

Kurdish Demonstrators Clash With Police In Istanbul

ISTANBUL, Jan 22, 2006 (AFP) Protesters calling for the release of jailed Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan clashed with police Sunday in a working-class district of Istanbul, an AFP photographer reported. About 100 (...)continue

25 January 2006

Imprisonment, torture and execution of Kurdish political dissidents in Iran

Serious violations of human rights continued in the Islamic Republic of Iran, with tens of thousands of Kurdish political arrests, unfair trials, torture and more than 1197 executions. Escalating economic difficulties led to (...)continue

25 January 2006

Education of North African Immigrant Children

I. CONTEXT Presently, there is but one choice for North African children of the 2nd generation in Europe to know their “culture of origin”: through the Arabic language or “Islamic civilization.” In fact, there (...)continue

9 October 2005

Use of toxic gases in Rif

North Morocco Spanish government required to explain use of toxic gases in Rif A group from the Catalonian left wing party in the central parliament in Madrid submitted, Tuesday morning, a motion questioning Zapatero’s government (...)continue

8 September 2005

They had the choice between several capitals

Attacks of London: "the English are far from the account" According to Ali Tounsi, the British authorities were not able to suitably apprehend the terrorist threat which was translated, last Thursday, by the quadruple bombing in (...)continue

25 June 2005

A burned mosque in Agadez

According to the Weekly magazine the Republican (Niamey), young demonstrators in Agadez burned a mosque. Indeed, according to the same newspaper, 300 young people expressed to denounce the attitude of islamist who condemn Bianou. (...)continue

25 May 2005

Education of North African Immigrant Children

I. CONTEXT Presently, there is but one choice for North African children of the 2nd generation in Europe to know their “culture of origin”: through the Arabic language or “Islamic civilization.” In fact, there (...)continue

9 January 2005

Reports over Niger’s Tuareg rebellion banned

Niger’s independent weekly newspaper ’Le Témoin’ this week was targeted by the government as it planned to publish a story and photographs of rebels of the Tuareg nomads, operating in the north of the country. The (...)continue

10 October 2004

Extending freedom of expression

The freedom deficit of the greater Middle East brings misery and conflict to nations of that most critical region of the world. Clearly, the right to live is the most basic human right. Only second to that is freedom of expression. (...)continue

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