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Kabylia - Media - USA - Islam

New Ally in the War Against Al Qaeda?

28 January 2010

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 Islamic extremists who operate from the North African nation. The Kabyles are part of the indigenous Berber peoples of North Africa and who in recent years have (...)continue

Kabylia - Autonomy - Celebration

12 January 2010

MAK’s Victorious Marches in Kabylia

To begin a new year of struggle for autonomy of Kabylia, the MAK has once again challenged the racist regime of Bouteflika by organizing two successful marches in Vgayet and Tizi-Ouzou. Despite repression and insecurity sustained by (...)continue

Education - USA

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

Identity - France

22 December 2009

Kabyle identity in France

Everyone agrees that the identity, no matter what the component (roots, membership in a society and its values, facies ...) is now vital to the growth and balance of every human, from every nation. Preserving its identity is assuring (...)continue

Tunisia

18 December 2009

Tunisia denies access to the MAK Leader Ferhat Mehenni

On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 2009, Ferhat Mehenni, Kabyle MAK (Movement for the autonomy of Kabylia ) leader has been held back at the Tunisian airport Tunis-Carthage, and escorted (...)continue

Conflict - Asia - Colonialism - 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

Germany

6 August 2009

Ulrich Delius and the autonomy of Kabylia

On July 31st, the German Friendship Association Germany­Kabylie presided by Lyazid Abid organized a conference, jointly animated by Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of MAK and Mr. Ulrich Delius, President of the "Society of Endangered (...)continue

Dictatorship

1 August 2009

The 128th martyr of the Black Spring

FARID ACID The 128th martyr of the Black Springr Farid Acid, a youth from Tizi-Ghennif (80km South West from Kabylia’s capital Tizi-Ouzou), just died. Bearly 21 years of age, during the event of the Kabyle Black Spring of 2001, (...)continue

Ecology

27 July 2009

Kabylia :Hell of Summer 2009

Every year since the re-deployment of the Army in Kabylia, the next day following the “re-election” of Bouteflika in 2004, summer and holiday period is a crafted hell by permanent criminal arsens. Eyes witnesses have (...)continue

Arabism - Islam

16 July 2009

Muhammad’s Monsters: The War of Islam against Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa

The transformation of the broad Mideastern environment was a process of many centuries that culminated in the defacing and refashioning of many lands and peoples. Byzantine Asia Minor, Armenian Anatolia, and much of Kurdistan, became (...)continue

Tamazgha

3 July 2009

Berbers, Islam & Christianity

The cause of the Berbers is hardly known in this country. The writer Kateb Yacine, a Berber who refused to write in Arabic, but chose French, is celebrated in France, especially among Berbers-but unknown in this country, and his (...)continue

Racism

26 June 2009

Culture of Hate: A Racism which Denies the History and Sufferings of its Victims

This hate, which suppresses freedom of thought, and condemns difference, calls itself "Islamic jihad." It draws on religious texts whose interpretation other Muslims dispute. Moreover, because these moderate Muslims challenge this (...)continue

Israel

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

Algeria - Democracy

22 June 2009

Singer-activist Ferhat Mehenni’s campaign for liberal self-government.

On the margins of the Arab world, the United States has some little noticed allies. These are ethnic or religious minorities who have never accepted the inevitability of strongman rule. Some of them have fallen on hard times-the (...)continue

19 June 2009

Kabylia before the French Colonialism

Before the French occupation in 1830, Kabylia was in perpetual rebellion against the Ottoman oppressors. It often succeeded to make of its autonomy an accomplished fact. This was evidenced by events such as that where At-Umeqwran (...)continue

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

14 June 2009

The MAK Commemorates the Anniversary of the Historic March of 14 June 2001

TIMANIT I TMURT N YEQVAYLIYEN Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia M-A-K The March of 14 June 2001 On 14 June 2001, Kabylia sent more than two million of its citizens in the streets of Algiers to hand the “Platform of (...)continue

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

The movement for the autonomy of Kabylia eighth anniversary

On 5 June 2001, a new hope was born in Kabylia: That of a regional autonomy. Now the Kabyle people will no longer turn in circles as he used to do previously, like someone lost in history. The blocked horizon of the linguistic claim (...)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

4 June 2009

The french revolution and the autonomy of Kabylia

EDMUND BURKE VERSUS THOMAS PAINE OR ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA VERSUS FERHAT MEHENNI “History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance (...)continue

Genocide

2 June 2009

Amnesty Int’l Report 2009 on Algeria, Misfocused on Christian Convert, Oblivious of Berber Nation

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis May 31, 2009 I have repeatedly defended religious groups that happen to be targeted, marginalized and persecuted, from Iraq’s Aramaeans to the Najran Oasis’ Yemenite Shias of Saudi (...)continue

30 May 2009

Speech of Ferhat Mehenni before the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

United Nations The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Eighth Session Coordination of the French-speaking Indigenous Peoples (CAF) Algeria (...)continue

Japan

19 May 2009

Of the Importance of Strong Relations between Japan and Kabylia

When I arrived in Japan (Nihon) last year, I was surprised to see that no Japanese has heard of our existence as Kabylians (Kabylian-jin). The majority of the friendly Japanese people (Nihon-jin) with whom I have had the pleasure to (...)continue

Morocco

19 May 2009

Ayyur is a forbidden name

On Monday,May 11th, I felt discriminated and humiliated when I went to the Civil Status Service to register my newborn (boy) with the name ( Ayyur Adam) in Beni Mellal. The agent said “Adam is accepted but Ayyur is (...)continue

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

Research - Africa

3 May 2009

The sun investigate lost city Atlantis

Despite lying lost beneath the waves since the dawn of civilization, the mythical home of an ancient utopian society has never been forgotten. Indeed, interest in the legend is very much alive today - as has been proved by the global (...)continue

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

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

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

25 March 2009

The Makhzen will ban Morocco too!

The Moroccan regime has decided that the banning of Amazigh first names inside the country is not sufficient enough. Two or three weeks before, it has sent to all his corrupt consulates all over the world a racist notice forbidding (...)continue

24 March 2009

The Moroccan constitution negates the existence of the Amazigh people and its identity

Preliminary remarks about Morocco’s report on human rights practices that will be discussed with the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva on 20 April,2009 Despite the fact that the country is (...)continue

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

10 March 2009

Bhutan, Switzerland and Kabylia: Devaluation and Future

Sovereign Mountains As large as and more mountainous than Switzerland, it is located in the heart of the Himalayan chain between India and China. Its greatest asset is its Buddhist philosophy. This philosophy is based on a Tibetan (...)continue

7 March 2009

Berbers as Anti-Islamists and Anti-Arab Nationalists

I’ve been studying the Middle East and Islam since 1969 but there is still so much to learn. It was only on visiting Salem Chaker, professor of Berber studies at the University of Paris in March 2006 that I realized the vibrancy (...)continue

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