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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
Language
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16 September 2008International 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
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
7 May 2008Linguistic connections
THE SURVIVORS OF ATLANTIS Generally, modern Cro-Magnon people can be found in certain parts of Western Europe, North Africa and some of the Atlantic Islands today. Physical anthropologists agree that Cro-Magnon is represented in (...)continue
24 March 2008The Basque language
Basque language is an isolate. It is more or less the same as ancient Aquitanian (registered in funerary and votive slabs of the Roman period in today’s Gascony) and apparently also left remains, both slabs and short texts in (...)continue
24 March 2008The etymology of the word “Berber”
En Francais For some people, the origin of the word “Berber” would be Greek; their argument rely on the fact that the Greeks called people who spoke a language other than Greek “the Barbarians”. For the (...)continue
18 December 2007Freedom of Speech - in Any Language
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many have rightly cited the Middle East’s democracy deficit as one of the prime reasons that the region has produced so much terrorism and political violence. In a November (...)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
4 September 2007Couscous: about the etymology of the word
The Berber origin of the word couscous does not make any doubt, even if its exact formation has some darknesses. Indeed, the term, in the base form seksu (and various local phonetic alternatives) is attested in almost all the Berber (...)continue
22 July 2007Nine years ago, the regime adopted the generalization of the Arab language
Linguistic mystification After Independence, Ben Bella had announced the color while declaring by three times at the airport of Tunis, on April 14, 1962: “We are Arab, Arab, Arab! ”. Therefore, from now on, Algeria was (...)continue
22 May 2007The etymology of the word “Berber”
But, in my view, these hypotheses rely on no logic, because in that period, the Berbers were not the only ones with whom the Romans or the Arabs had contacts. Why therefore other people as the Copts, the Kurds, the Sudanese, the (...)continue
1 May 2007An outline of the Shilha (Berber) vernacular of Douiret (Southern Tunisia)
The Tunisian Berber (or Shilha) vernaculars are among the least described Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) languages to this day. Although they have been provisionally assigned to the North-Berber group within the Berber branch of (...)continue
23 April 2007A newish book on tamazight berber of Tipaza
I’ve recently finished reading Tamazight: Views and Proverbs (the Example of Tipasa), by Mohamed Arezki Ferad (Algiers:Dar Huma 2004). It appears to be only about the third or fourth work ever written focusing on this dialect, (...)continue
15 January 2007Amazigh language
Amazigh people’s origin Recent anthropoligical discoveries enable us to account for the Amazigh people’s origin. Relying on the discoveries, it seems that this poeple can be considered as the origin from which ramified all (...)continue
29 April 2006Ahmed Assid optimistic about inclusion of Amazigh in Moroccan Constitution
Morocco is considering constitutional changes as King Mohammad VI has embraced the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission. One potential reform is the Amazigh demand for recognition of their language as an official (...)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
17 February 2006Language 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 2006UN 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
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 2006Would the Latin alphabet be of Berber origin?
The History of the writing did not vary since the 15e century at our days. The theory according to which the scriptural characters gréco-Romans come exclusively from the signs of writing phenician which derive from the Egyptian (...)continue
25 January 2006