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Meeting

Tinariwen 2010 Summer Tour:

First Amazigh festival in Australia:

Morocco: The United States Peace Corps is seeking two individuals as Language and Cross Culture Coordinator:

Amazigh delegation to the OSCE conference in Amman on the 26,27 October:

Khalid Izri Concert in Barcelona on 2008/7/1:


History

Les origines préhistoriques et paléoberbères des Touaregs à travers l'art rupestre saharien:
Pour remonter aux origines préhistoriques et paléoberbères du peuple touareg, les spécialistes font appel à deux grandes catégories de sources: celle de l'archéologie et celle de l'histoire de l'Antiquité. Les sources archéologiques sont la paléo-anthropologie (l'étude des restes osseux11es monuments funéraires et l'art rupestre. Les sources historiques disposent de l'iconographie égyptienne et des témoignages des auteurs gréco-Iatins. Les architectures funéraires sahariennes se comptent par milliers] mais malgré l'excellente étude réalisée sur celles du Sahara méridional (Niger) (F.Paris) et secondairement celles du Tassili des Ajjer celles-ci n'ont pas encore livré tout leur potentiel de connaissances, notamment sur le type anthropologique physique des anciens Berbères qui y ont été inhumés. Les sources paléo-anthropologiques ne sont certes pas négligeables dans la région du Maghreb où des nécropoles ont livré quelques centaines de squelettes entiers de Mechtoïdes (Hommes des sites éponymes de Mechta-Afalou, en Algérie) et de Pro méditerranéens Capsiens (Hommes du site éponyme de Gafsa,... Par Malika Jachide

Tamazgha Toponame

Toponymie is a science which studies places names (toponymes). It seeks their meaning, their etymology, but also their transformation throughout the centuries. We deal here with the toponymie of Tamazgha (North Africa):

Toponame: Werzag
Signification: sans crêtes ou sans sommet
Explication: composé de « wer » : war : sans et « Zag » : azag : la crête. Le mot veut donc dire sans crêtes ou sans sommet.

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Anti-Semitic Protests in Morocco a Warning Sign
Noam Nir, an Israeli businessman who lives and owns a property in Morocco, was shocked when he found out that the building he owns in the city of Mogador became the focus of an anti-Semitic demonstration. Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Nir expressed a serious concern that such demonstrations, that were not commonplace in Morocco until recently and have suddenly begun to appear on its streets, would lead to imminent harm anhd endanger the lives of the Jewish community in Morocco.... Full story

‘’Assarag n Imezyanen‘’ the most successful television shows broadcast by the Moroccan channel 8
 ‘’ Assarag n Imezyanen ‘’ is the title of one of the most successful and thrilling television shows broadcast by the Moroccan ‘’channel 8 ‘’ or “Tamazight”. Hosted by the promising and zealous youngsters from Alhoceima city, namely Yassin Errahmouni and Asmahane Elyamani, the show constitutes a real opportunity for kids to explore and benefit from its fruitful episodes. ... Full story

Gaddafi: "Amazigh no longer exist"
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said that the Amazigh (Berbers) were "ancient tribes who lived in North Africa and that they no longer exist," the Libyan agency Jana reported Wednesday. The Amazigh tribes "have disappeared and no longer exist," said the Libyan leader, saying the origin of the Amazigh was Arab, during a meeting with a delegation of journalists and intellectuals.     He also believed it was "pointless to try (to use) the language of these tribes which have disappeared," criticizing the use of that language in "some radios," in allusion to the Moroccan media. ... Full story

KABYLIE: REPRESSION AND A PLAN FOR AUTONOMY
Kabylie is a densely populated mountainous region located in the North of Algeria, to the East of Algiers. Surrounded by littoral plains in the West and in the East, with the Mediterranean Sea to the North and the High Plateaus in the South, it is devoid of an overall administrative existence and is the home to a Berber population: the Kabyles. There are between 3 and 3.5 million Kabyle speakers in Kabylia out of a total population of around 35 million inhabitants in Algeria. The Kabyles also number between 2 and 2.5 million in the rest of the country, particularly in Algiers, where they represent a large proportion of the population. There are a million of them as well in France and in other European countries plus Canada.... Full story

Rabat : Amazigh demonstarte in Meknes
The Amazigh Cultural Movement has demonstrate in first May 2010 in the streets of the city of Amknes (Meknes), demanding official recognition of Amazigh identity and cultural rights and the officialization of the Amazigh language in the Moroccan Constitution. See demonstration in pictures ... ... Full story

30 years of the "Berber Spring” in Algeria (20.4): North Africa's indigenous people are still waiting for recognition of their culture
Berbers throughout the world will this weekend be remembering the crushing of the "Berber Spring” in Algeria in 1980 and the dead of the "Black Spring” of 2001. "The Berbers are still waiting for the recognition of their language and culture. But to the present day the governments of the Arab national states in north Africa are refusing this ethnic group the same rights as those of the Arabs”, criticised the Africa consultant of the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV), Ulrich Delius, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the crushing of the peaceful protest demonstration of the indigenous people (20th April).... Full story


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Petition to support Morocan Amazighs in their struggle to not impose on theme Arabic names:   [Mbarek Oulemda] [ 2009-05-22 11:36:00 ]

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Agad n tidt
The literary and poetic Amazigh field has been enriched recently by the publication of a new collection of poems by the poet Taieb Amgroud. This collection entitled "agad n tidt" or the egg of truth comprising 31 poems on 60 pages is the second for the author after "inagan" which is being published by Ircam. THOSE ARE descriptions of this collection of poems: ... Full story

 

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Recently a debate about anti-Semitism and the difference between anti-Semitism and Zionism appeared in Morocco. The observers of the Moroccan political life noticed that in most activities organized to support the Iraqi and Palestinian peoples, there is two different voices:
The first voice is the one of the current Moroccan Islamic movement shouting slogans as "khiber, khiber, oh Jews, the Mohomed army will return back” (khiber is a Jewish city in Saudi Arabia completely destroyed by the soldiers of Allah in the time of the Prophet) or "Shame, Shame, Shame, Advisor is Jewish."
The second voice is the one of the current Pan-Arab Moroccan movement shouting slogans like "Shame, Shame, Shame, Shame, advisor is a Zionist" and "Oh, leave Morocco Advisor", referring to the Jewish Royal Advisor Mr Andre Azoulay.

The difference between the two voices is the term used ‘Jew’ or ‘Zionist’. Regarding the Islamic voice, most observers consider that it’s an anti-Semitic voice, but the Islamists themselves have their own religious argument which says that the Jews were a chosen people, but the curse of God wanted their dispersion across the world except in Palestine, and their attempt to return is a pure sin. We must protect the Holy Land "Al Quds" of the Jewish impurity. The Shariaa law, reserves a pure distinction between Jew and Muslim. It reserves for the Jew a special status called Dhemmi.

For the pan-Arab movement voice, it is subject to variation between observers. There are those who believe that it's an anti-Semitic voice: They start from the fact that the ancestors of André Azoulay are not invaders, but ingenious people since 30 centuries, some even call them Amazighs converted to Judaism 30 centuries ago, arguing  by the foundation of Amazigh kingdom with Jewish confession  and rolled by the Queen called Tihiyya, Adding to this: Azoulay's name itself is an Amazigh/Berber name which means  “the one with the blue eyes”, he himself was born in Essaouira, his parents buried in Essaouira, he has a Moroccan nationality, he is with Palestinian side in the Arab-Israeli  conflict. And despite all this, his taxation as Zionist, is a pure Anti-Semitism.

In the other side, other observers believe that it's an anti-sioniste voice: justifying Azoulay Zionism with the fact that he is a supporter of peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict, he also is for normalization with Israel or with Zionist state as called by the pan-Arabs. Because for them -as recently published by the Moroccan Association of Human Rights AMDH in a statement released- "Anyone who has or wants to try or think about normalization with the Zionist state on the tourism, cultural, intellectual or economic field is a Zionist"

But opponents believe the opposite: intrigued by the fact that  Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain and Mauritania – which have Israeli flags floating over their capitals - are not considered by the same reasoning, as Zionists states, and therefore boycotted them and their films, their conferences and congresses, it is a work of pure and clear political agenda. If these countries were not Arabs, they would be taxed by Zionism! And this is pure anti-Semitism. They add another argument, why the human rights defenders supported the Sahrawi activist Aminatou Haidhar, in the conflict opposing her to the Moroccan Authorities even though she has rejected the Moroccan nationality and she denied what the Moroccans call "the sacred national pillars"? in another hand they protested against Andre Azoulay, and asked him even openly and publicly to get out of Morocco, although he has never denied any of "sacred national Pillars". Even his love to his country ‘Morocco’ is obvious to everyone. The only difference between the two persons is, -these observers noticed- that Aminatou haider is Arab  and Azoulay is Jewish. Is not this a pure anti-Semitism?.
In the same context, Andre Azoulay, declared to a newspaper that: he is considered in Morocco as a Zionist and a Palestinian in Israel, it means someone of nowhere; this shows clearly the effect this can have on his life, His fundamental right has been violated: They asked him to leave the country as if he is the Dhemmi? Is he really Dhemmi? . Isn’t that a pure anti-Semitism?
All these slogans spread silently: the Moroccan authorities’ silence, Moroccan Jews silence and the intelligentsias’ silence… until a Moroccan Jew brought to justice an association of human rights. Thing, according to observers, should be done by Azoulay, because he is the one who is the most concerned before any other Moroccan Jew.
Far from all these small details, putting things in the right context and generally outside of any ideology, in your opinion: is these voices, Moroccan Pan-Arabs and Islamists, are anti-Semitic? Anti-Zionists? or neither one nor the other? or are they free voices? Express yourself ..

Were anti-Zionist voices
They are anti-Semitic voices
They are neither anti-Semitic nor anti-Zionist voices
They are free voices
I don't know

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Burst into laughter : Tadsa
Joking in Frensh, in Amazigh, in Arabic

Revised History

Year : 1870

Amazighophobia

Silence in North Afrique we arabize Amazigh poeple, the process work perfectly it can sound genocide but in the name of Allah all thing is ok, .
In Morocco ; In Algeria ; In Lybia-Siwa


North Africa

Arabization and linguistic politics in North Africa : in Morocco ; Algeria ; in Tunisia. Poeples in North Africa must always assume arabic face identity that we impose ?


Arabisme, what that that means?

Manifeste d'arabisation du Maroc du 23 Mai 1970. Les 493 intelectuels et hommes politiques de la gauche et de droite qui avaient demandé la déstruction d'un patrimoine de l'humanité qui est l'identité Amazighe!!


Berber Dahir
Pour mieux comprendre l'histoire du Maroc lire ce dossier spécial sur l'avant et l'aprés le dahir dit berbére. De 1914 à 2003 des documents historiques inédits. Les protégés de la France, l'angleterre, le wahabisme, le dahir de my youssef de 1914 et celui de Med V de 1930 .. ect

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