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Kabylia - Research

The Flyssa

28 October 2008

Hi Gav, Thank you for opening this thread on the flyssa, and for the interesting observation noting the similarity of curvature in some Celtic swords’ blade profile to these mysterious North African sabres. Actually, I have heard this concept it seems, comparing the deep bellied profile of the flyssa to the half section of blades, but cannot recall the source at the moment. Most earlier (...)continue

Morocco - Discrimination

12 May 2008

When Will Godot Come to Kids in Anefgu?

"The tears of the world are constant quality. For each one who begin to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of a laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us (...)continue

10 September 2007

Amazigh textiles and dress in Morocco: metaphors of motherhood

Berber women are artists. They weave brightly colored carpets, and they adorn their faces, hands, and ankles with tattoos, dye their hands and feet with henna henna, name for a reddish or black hair dye obtained from the powdered (...)continue

Kabylia - Health

10 September 2007

Traditional Amazigh Medicine

Therapies used in traditional societies are obviously remote from modern biomedical beliefs and standards. In Kabylia, for instance, traditional medicine is holistic and illness is regarded as the result of magical, divine, and natural (...)continue

Language

4 September 2007

Couscous: 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

Research - Migration

13 February 2007

The Organic Ethnologist of Algerian Migration

Adelmalek Sayad passed away two years ago at this writing, leaving behind him one of the most original and fertile contributions to the anthropology of immigration of the past century. Throughout his voluminous and varied writings (...)continue

Identity

27 January 2007

Couscous is Big in the Capital

Couscous has almost become a national dish in France. Perennially popular, couscous is even offered in company cafeterias where it enjoys more success than paella and pot roast. Writer and epicurean George Sand, mistress of Frédéric (...)continue

2 January 2007

Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography

Of all the affairs we participate in, with or without interest, the groping search for a new way of life is the only aspect still impassioning. Aesthetic and other disciplines have proved blatantly inadequate in this regard and merit (...)continue

Women

23 September 2006

High in Algeria’s Mountains, a Kingdom of Couscous

It’s a modest realm, a three-story, unpainted concrete building that serves both as the Lahlou family’s home and as a processing center for its hand-rolled couscous, which won top honors in the eighth annual international (...)continue

4 September 2006

The Practice of Everyday Life

This is a particularly difficult book to summarise. It is written in a deliberately poetic style and the argument is very academic, and pretty self referential [that is referring to de Certeau’s contemporaries and to then current (...)continue

4 September 2006

Outline of a Theory of Practice

This is a very detailed and dense piece of work containing some theoretical generalisations and some detailed ethnographic data arising from the study of Kabylia (Algeria). As usual, I have tried to extract some of the basic points (...)continue

4 September 2006

Mutual aid among the Barbarians

The great migrations. — New organization rendered necessary. — The village community. — Communal work. — Judicial procedure — Inter-tribal law. — Illustrations from the life of our contemporaries (...)continue

9 May 2006

Zeralda hunting reserve seeks to preserve Barbary red deer

Considered an endangered species, Barbary red deer are currently being reintroduced to forested areas comprising of cork oak and Algerian oak. Such areas are mostly found in Bejaïa, Skikda, Annaba and Jijel in eastern Algeria. An (...)continue

Tunisia

21 April 2006

A mezmerizing mix of the old and the new

Much of country is cosmopolitan But cultures date back 3,000 years DJERBA, Tunisia- Incense wafts through the moist air as two women at the El Ghriba synagogue scribble messages on the shells of hard-boiled eggs. My attempt to (...)continue

Lybia

12 April 2006

Libya - Berber Architecture

Dedicated to the splendid guidance of Mr Shukri and Captain Darfir The last few days in Libya have been fantastic. I am writing from Cairo again, returning to a final manic day in this frenzied metropolis before joining a crowd of (...)continue

24 March 2006

Zidane the Berberian

A Frenchman of Kabylia origin, former star of Juventus and current star of Real Madrid, two of the the most prestigious club teams in the world, Zinedine Zidane is also star/hero of the French national soccer team (and captain as of (...)continue

Portrait

24 March 2006

Zidane: A Sports Legend

A Sports Legend Destined Sports Legend French society was changed forever July 19th, 1998. It was the championship game of the coveted World Cup tournament hosted by France. France was to face Brazil, a soccer giant that ignites (...)continue

20 March 2006

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Autobiography

I was born on April 1, 1933 in Constantine, Algeria, which was then part of France. My family, originally from Tangiers, settled in Tunisia and then in Algeria in the 16th century after having fled Spain during the Inquisition. In (...)continue

14 March 2006

Saami and Berbers-An Unexpected Mitochondrial DNA Link

The sequencing of entire human mitochondrial DNAs belonging to haplogroup U reveals that this clade arose shortly after the “out of Africa” exit and rapidly radiated into numerous regionally distinct subclades. (...)continue

4 March 2006

Fish Tagine

Ingredients 1 beautiful fish (shad, dorado, bed..) For decoration 1/2 kg of potatoes, peeled and cut in roundels 2 kg of tomatoes cut in roundels 4 grilled bell peppers, cut into long slides 4 bell green hot peppers (...)continue

4 March 2006

Lamb Couscous

Ingredients: 450g/1lb Uncooked Couscous 450g/1lb Lamb or Veal, cut into 2.5cm/1 inch cubes 1 small Cabbage, chopped 450g/1lb Onions , sliced 225g/8oz Pumpkin, cut into 2.5cm/1 inch chunks 125g/5oz Butter Salt and (...)continue

4 March 2006

The Biggest Dig

Rena Marie Pacella Traveling to the center of the Earth is a fanciful concept, but consider the reality: We have so far drilled just 7.5 miles into the Earth’s rocky crust, leaving roughly 3,962 more miles to go. The new (...)continue

4 March 2006

Television Signals Plug the Holes in GPS

Jason Daley Today’s Global Positioning System is great for tracking tanks in the desert, but turn on your Garmin in New York City or inside virtually any building, and you’ll be staring at satellite static-GPS (...)continue

4 March 2006

X-Racers, Start Your Rockets!

Michael Belfiore It has a jet engine’s roar but not the accompanying whine-just an ear-shattering thunder. And the airplane is far too small, like a Volkswagen with a semi’s air horn. It blasts down the runway, climbs (...)continue

4 March 2006

Rocket-Powered Air Races to Launch Next Year

Eric Adams Watch out, Nascar-the Rocket Racing League is about to start stealing some of your famed thunder. Picture high-tech, rocket-propelled airplanes racing around three-dimensional racetracks-in-the-sky with ear-shattering (...)continue

4 March 2006

Will Drugs Make Us Smarter and Happier?

James Vlahos June 6, 2025, 7:30 a.m. The alarm is going off, and I feel great. Thanks to Reposinex, I’ve had a full four hours of deep, restorative sleep. My head hit the pillow, and boom! I was right into slow-wave delta sleep. (...)continue

4 March 2006

Big Wheels for Little Cars

Gregory Mone The most prolific car manufacturer on the planet resides in a Rice University laboratory in Houston, where chemist James Tour and his colleagues have built one trillion trillion nanoscopic cars. The tiny four-wheeled (...)continue

24 February 2006

M semmen

Ingredients: 1 kg of flour 1 coffee spoonful of salt 2 glasses of water Preparation: Make a well to the center of the flour, there put the salt and add little by little the water in kneading energetically until getting a (...)continue

24 February 2006

Beghrir

Ingredients 375 g of fine semoule 125 g of flour 1 coffee spoonful of salt 1/2 liter of milk 1/2 liter of water 3 eggs 40 g of yeast (bakery) 1/4 liter of water 50 g of butter (...)continue

24 February 2006

Harira

Ingredients for 12 people It should be prepared in two times : Bouillon(Bubbling) Tédouira. The bubbling(tka_tàa)is about1 & half hour of cooking. 250 g of beef or muton meat cut into little pieces 4 or 5 little fleshy bones (...)continue

24 February 2006

Couscous with vegetables

Ingredients: 1 kg and 1/2 of fat meat of sheep (shoulder or saddle) or of veal (collar, chest, shoulder, bend of the knee) 1 headed cabbage (about 800 g) 1 piece of stale bread 1 soup spoonful of juice of lemon 4 cloves (...)continue

24 February 2006

Tagine of meat and prunes

Ingredients for 12 people 1 and ½ kg of mutton meat(shoulder), cut into pieces 500 g of prunes, washed and swollen in water 100 g of blanched and fried almonds 2 middle onions 3 cloves of garlic 2 sticks of cinamon (...)continue

24 February 2006

chiken with olives

Ingredients 2 chikens 3 onions cut into slides 3 crushed cloves of garlic 1 coffee spoonful of ginger A little bit of safran 1 soup spoonful of lemon juice salt 1 glass of water 2 preserved lemon cut into (...)continue

24 February 2006

Sardine with potatoes

Ingredients 2kg of sardine 500 g of potatoes 1 bouquet of minced parsley 1 bouquet of crushed corriander 3 crushed cloves of garlic 3 churned eggs 1 coffee spoonful of cumin 1 soup spoonful of sweet red pepper (...)continue

24 February 2006

Chorba

Ingredients for 6 people 250 g of calf meat 2 carots 2 turnips 2 potatoes 2 branches of celery 3good tomatoes 1 bouquet of parsley 1 onion half tea cup of vermecilli (...)continue

20 February 2006

Moroccan Berbers in Europe, the US and Africa and the Concept of Diaspora

1. Meaning and characteristics of the concept Diaspora Diaspora (Greek dispersion, from diaspeirein) is a concept that was first used for Jews, who lived outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile. They scattered all over the world (...)continue

16 February 2006

The central position of women in the life of the Berbers of Northern-Africa exemplified by the Kabyles

The Four Seasons Life Cycle of a Kabyle Woman Introduction The Kabyles are an ethnic sub-group of the Berber people, today still living in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. They are the oldest known people of Northern Africa. The three (...)continue

9 February 2006

Diabetes

Diabetes is a chronic condition in which the body produces too little insulin or can’t use available insulin efficiently. Insulin is a hormone vital to helping the body use digested food for growth and energy. As many as 18,2 (...)continue

9 February 2006

Obesity

Pain is one of the most common human experiences. Yet pain has never been fully accepted as a medical problem. One reason may be because pain is a subjective and highly individualized experience. You can measure pain even though you (...)continue

9 February 2006

Menopause

The change of life. The end of fertility. The beginning of freedom. Whatever people call it, menopause is a unique and personal experience for every woman. It’s a natural event that marks the end of fertility and childbearing (...)continue

9 February 2006

Addiction and the Eating Disorders

Although comprehensive theories of addiction recognize the etiological importance of environmental and cognitive factors, it has been widely accepted for many years that addiction is also a brain disease and that individuals differ in (...)continue

9 February 2006

Shining a Light on Wintertime Depression

Light box therapy effectively treats seasonal affective disorder As another gray, dreary winter takes hold, you begin to feel a depression settling deep in your bones. You don’t feel motivated. You’re eating a ton of (...)continue

4 February 2006

How I learned to stop worrying and love the smartphone

Cory Doctorow I love the Internet because I can plug anything I want into it. No ISP tells me what computer I can use or what software it can run. Contrast that with the phone networks. Until 1968, it was illegal to even attach a (...)continue

3 February 2006

Navajo Rugs

Navajo legends say that Spider Woman instructed the Navajo women how to weave on a loom which Spider Man told them how to make - the cross poles were made of sky and earth cords; the warp sticks of sun rays; the healds of rock crystal (...)continue

31 January 2006

Klockwatch: Libya 1-2 Ivory Coast

Goalflashes and major incidents (all times GMT): 1711: Full-time Libya 1-2 Ivory Coast. The final whistle sounds, ensuring Ivory Coast have six points from their opening two games. Libya have yet to collect a point but can consider (...)continue

31 January 2006

Morocco With a Quarter Final Chance

Morocco has held host Egypt to a goalless draw in the Nations Cup. This means that Morocco are in with a chance to advance to the quarter finals on condition that they beat Libya by at least three fin their final group A match on (...)continue

Ritual

25 January 2006

The Bilmawen Carnival

An Amazigh ancestral tradition. The masquerades which flourished during the pre-colonial era [Before 1912] in Morocco are some of the truly interesting carnivalistic phenomena, among which is the jester, as it combines the merry (...)continue

25 January 2006

Amazigh names for boys ( berber boys names )

Amazigh names for girls Aderbal: Berber King (118-112). Son of Misibsen (Micipsa). Defeated by Yugurten (Jugurtha). Aderfi Freed, liberated. AFALKAY The handsome. AFAW The bright, the shining. AFERIt means " the African ". Afra (...)continue

Ecology

25 January 2006

The thuriferous juniper

THE THURIFEROUS JUNIPER (Juniperus thurifera) IN MOROCCO GENERAL PRESENTATION The thuriferous juniper (Juniperus thurifera L. ) is located on the western part of the Mediterranean basin . We can find this species in France, in Spain, (...)continue

25 January 2006

ANZAR

Anzar is the masculine name for rain, but rain with a distinct personality. Anzar is the benevolent element which helps the vegetation grow, crops to be harvested and animals to flourish. In this way rain, likened to seed or semen, (...)continue

Education

25 January 2006

The animal in the tuareg children’s play and toys.

A fundamental aspect of all cultures and societies is made up by ludic activities such as entertainment, play and toys. Yet, this cultural heritage and especially the children’s games and toys are often neglected at least by the (...)continue

25 January 2006

Amazigh ( Berber ) names for girls

Amazigh names for boys BAHAC Common name, unknown origin DAMYA Dihya’s second name, also used in the Suss (Morocco) DASIN Famous poetess of the Tuareg DIHYA Other name of " The Kahina " nickname of the " Queen of the Awres (...)continue

9 August 2005

Amazigh kids get role model

The Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) is just about to launch its first Amazigh language comic book in September this year, presenting young Tifinagh learners with a beautiful role model... Tagllidt N Ayt Ufella, the Queen of (...)continue

9 April 2005

Bacterial Vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common of three vaginal infections that fall under the category known as vaginitis. The other two infections are trichomoniasis, a sexually transmitted disease, and vulvovaginal candidiasis, a (...)continue

9 February 2005

Why Does Hair Turn Gray?

Have you ever watched someone try to cover up gray hair by dyeing it? Or maybe you wonder why your granddad has a full head of silver hair when in old pictures it used to be dark brown? Getting gray, silver, or white hair is a natural (...)continue

13 November 2004

Sleep Disorders

Adequate restful sleep, like diet and exercise, is critical to good health. Sleep allows your body to rest and restore energy, while at the same time carry out important physiological and psychological functions that affect your (...)continue

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