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- North Africa’s Worsening Divisions
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2 September 2010
Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ‘There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’ -
29 August 2010
Algeria : Human Rights Seminar Deliberately Disrupted -
19 August 2010
The Basque language -
10 August 2010
Berber mythology -
10 August 2010
The name Cyreniac comes from the name of a couragious lion-hunting Berber woman, Cyre -
10 August 2010
History of Cyrene : Archaic Greek colonies in Libya: historical vs. archaeological chronologies? -
10 August 2010
The Origin and Mythology of The Name Libya -
9 August 2010
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya -
9 August 2010
Herodotus (c.490-c.425 BCE): On Libya -
9 August 2010
Greco-Berber Philosophers of Cyrene with some quotes -
9 August 2010
SCOTS OUR COUSINS (Gaelic is a berber dialect??) -
8 August 2010
What Really Happened To The Roman IX Legion? -
8 August 2010
Yorkshireman found to share DNA with Berbers : The Mystery of the Headless Romans in in Eboracum -
8 August 2010
The Strange Case of the Headless Romans of York -
8 August 2010
Roman Africa: Preserved by the Sahara -
6 August 2010
Many English and Kabyle words have the same meaning! -
1 August 2010
Spartacus the Berber -
29 July 2010
’’The Shining Ones’’ -
24 July 2010
New Ally Against al Qaeda -
19 July 2010
Washington Post Columnist’s Israel Mistake -
18 July 2010
Washington Post Columnist’s Israel Mistake -
12 July 2010
Understanding Self-Determination: The Basics -
12 July 2010
Self-determination and Arab imperialism -
8 July 2010
New Ally Against al Qaeda -
4 July 2010
Connections to the Arthurian legend -
29 June 2010
Why do North Africans and other non-Arabians consider themselves Arabs? -
27 June 2010
Amazighs are the only people in the world who have never been barbarous. Herodotus was right when he said that that the Amazighs are the only people of the world who are wholesome. -
21 June 2010
Issad Rebrab’s Cevital or a sucess story made in Kabylia -
21 June 2010
Issad Rebrab’s Cevital or a sucess story made in Kabylia -
12 June 2010
Linguistic connections -
12 June 2010
The MAK Commemorates the Anniversary of the Historic March of 14 June 2001 -
8 June 2010
The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East’s Kurdish issue? — Last Part -
4 June 2010
Connections to the Arthurian legend -
3 June 2010
This American journalist of 1914 didn’t know that it was thanks to the Kabyles that America could become a democracy -
2 June 2010
Even if you are dead, you are still alive. A History. A Struggle. A Hope! -
2 June 2010
Kabylia Viewed by Americans in 1914 -
2 June 2010
Genetic studies show that the Kelts, Basques, and Berbers are all related. -
30 May 2010
Muhammad’s Monsters: The War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa -
30 May 2010
Algeria: Independent Republic of Kabylia -
14 May 2010
The french revolution and the autonomy of Kabylia -
11 May 2010
North Africans may have beaten Celts to Ireland -
3 May 2010
New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda? -
3 May 2010
A Film on Dyhia and Aksil at Hollywood...We are still expecting. -
3 May 2010
The Gladiator -
29 April 2010
Imazighen and the Tamazigh in Asia -
18 April 2010
The Gladiator -
5 April 2010
Unemployment rate (2009 est.): 27%; at the same time Algerian Government estimate 11.8% in February 2009. Some 24 companies have submitted bids to construct the Grand Mosque of Algiers, a “multi- billion-dollar” project, according to Ghoulamallah Bouabdallah, Algeria’s minister of religious affairs. -
28 March 2010
Berbers’ Expansion in the World : The connections between Ireland and the Berbers of North Africa -
18 March 2010
Berbers’ Expansion in the World : The connections between Ireland and the Berbers of North Africa -
13 March 2010
The Kabyles or Berbers of Yorkshire -
4 March 2010
Tamaynut Amazigh Women Foundation -
3 March 2010
Buried Amazigh place names in the Libyan Desert -
22 February 2010
New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda? The Movement for the Independence of Kabylia is in motion -
12 February 2010
The Secret Reasons of the Darfur Genocide: fake Arabic imposed on Non-Arabs -
11 February 2010
New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda? -
9 February 2010
Linguistic connections : The origin of the name Isle of Man is Kabyle -
5 February 2010
The sun investigate lost city Atlantis -
31 January 2010
Egypt: origin of the Greek culture -
31 January 2010
Berber Mythology -
23 January 2010
Tizi Ouzou, in the US by Taous Khazem -
6 January 2010
Who are the Kabyles ? - Why are Kabyle studies important? -
6 January 2010
Berbers’ Expansion in the World : The connections between Ireland and the Berbers of North Africa -
4 January 2010
- Who are the Berbers? - Why are Berber studies important? -
4 January 2010
Early History of the Berbers’ Expansion in the World -
4 January 2010
Culture of Hate: Jihad against the Arabs -
3 January 2010
North Africans may have beaten Celts to Ireland -
3 January 2010
Amazigh ( Berber ) names for girls -
3 January 2010
Amazigh names for girls -
30 December 2009
Jihad against North Africa: The Arab Muslim aggression against the Berbers of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco -
29 December 2009
Olivier Guitta: Al Qaeda making giant strides in Algeria -
21 December 2009
"Kerepakupai meru" instead of nonsense "Angel Falls" : Kabyles should also do the same to eradicate the arab/islamic names -
15 December 2009
Amazigh names for boys ( berber boys names ) -
15 December 2009
The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity -
15 December 2009
The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity -
12 December 2009
Muhammad’s Monsters: The War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa -
23 November 2009
Hey you said "i am proud and happy that the arab muslims came to north Africa. -
23 November 2009
Hey you said "i am proud and happy that the arab muslims came to north Africa. -
22 November 2009
Race-related stress and terrorism have the same effects upon their victims. -
20 November 2009
Culture of Hate: A Racism which Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims -
20 November 2009
The sun investigate lost city Atlantis : Three ancient crocodile species unearthed
Europe
It’s Likely the Prophet Muhammad Never Existed
27 November 2008
MÜNSTER, Germany — Muhammad Sven Kalisch, a Muslim convert and Germany’s first professor of Islamic theology, fasts during the Muslim holy month, doesn’t like to shake hands with Muslim women and has spent years studying Islamic scripture. Islam, he says, guides his life. So it came as something of a surprise when Prof. Kalisch announced the fruit of his theological (...)continue
22 September 2008Morocco 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 (...)continue
17 July 2008French minister denounces burqa
Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said she hoped last month’s ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burqa on their wives". She told the newspaper, Le Parisien, the head-to-toe garment was a "prison". The (...)continue
8 July 2008The 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 (...)continue
19 October 2007Language, Power and Identity in North Africa and the Diaspora
Topic of debate: In the multilingual environment of North Africans in Africa and the Diaspora, the different languages in use do not have the same sociolinguistic status or the same sociocultural functions. In this debate the (...)continue
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, (...)continue
23 June 2006The Ameziane Mehenni’s case: an investigation between complicity and naivety
En Francais Two years after the coward assassination of Ameziane Mehenni, no track for the research of the authors and backers of this villainous act seem to succeed. The hope to find one day the murderers of the son of a figurehead (...)continue
11 May 2006The European Union is ready to finance renewable energies in Kabylia
The experiment of the South is possible in Kabylia The installations of renewable energies could be ensured in the isolated villages and inaccessible for Sonelgaz. It would be then useless to invest large money sums in projects (...)continue
21 April 2006Algerian President Attacks French "Genocide"
Algeria’s president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said that French colonisation of his country was a form of ’genocide’. The president said in a speech this week: "We no longer know whether we are Berbers(indigenous North (...)continue
12 March 2006MA in African Linguistics
Faculty of Arts The MA in African Linguistics is a study programme unique in the Netherlands. In this programme, students gain a profound understanding of linguistic research methods and techniques. The programme is internationally (...)continue
26 February 2006Institutional discrimination
Inquiry of INED to measure diversity in France: the Berber ignored in France The INED (National Institute of Demographic Studies) is a worthy institution which notably produces the censuses of the French population. It would seem (...)continue
25 January 2006
Spain, North Africa and the "reason of state"
The grave events that occurred in the Algerian region of Kabylia last spring, when the Algerian gendarmerie opened fire on innocent youth, went practically unnoticed by the Spanish government and its chief leader, the popular José María (...)continue
25 January 2006France : Discriminations
The World Amazigh Congress (CMA) is an international NGO for the Defense of the Rights of the Amazigh (Berber) People, created in 1995. In order to prepare this parallel report to the periodic one presented by the State of France, CMA (...)continue
25 January 2006
Moroccan Berbers in Europe
In this paper we will discuss the following question: can the international movement of Berbers be considered a Diaspora? We will first look at the meaning of the concept Diaspora, then at the history, geographical dispersion of (...)continue27 April 2005
Berber Teaching "Tamazight di lakul..."
In Catalonia the teaching of Berber languages will be integrated in the school system of the Catalogne area (Barcelona). The advertisement was made by professor Salem Chaker of the national Institute for Eastern languages and cultures (...)continue
15 November 2004
Crackdown on radicals as Dutch mourn film maker
The Dutch government declared war on Islamic terrorists yesterday as mourners gathered in Amsterdam for the cremation of the murdered film-maker Theo van Gogh. Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch prime minister, said the brutal killing of (...)continue
25 September 2004
A murder in Paris
Ameziane Mehenni, 30, was the son of the Kabyle singer and democracy fighter Ferhat Mehenni, whom we at FDD have had the privilege to know. He and his father have been supporters of a free Kabylia, an area that is now part of Algeria. (...)continue8 January 2001