“Tamunt for Freedoms,” an Amazigh-oriented party whose founding file is the subject of an appeal by the Interior Ministry, has called on voters to cast blank ballots in the coming legislative elections. The stance places the relationship ...
First names for girls: ⴰⵏⵢⴰ [ Anya ] : Melody. ⴱⴰⵢⴰ [ Baya ] : Traditional name (central Morocco, Kabylia, Tuareg). ⴱⵉⵜⵉ [ Biti ] : Traditional name (Atlas), Biti is a term used to cherish infants (Souss). Variant: Bitti. ⴷⴰⵎⵢⴰ [ Damya...
On Wednesday evening, a communiqué of the Royal Court announced that King Mohammed VI gave the order to make the Amazigh New Year an official holiday in Morocco; similar to the first of Muharram and New Year. In this context, the same source adds, Ki...
A new ministerial order has brought renewed attention to the place of the Amazigh language in education programs for Moroccans living abroad and for schools run by foreign missions in Morocco. The order establishes a service within the ministry’...
A request from the National Union of Education (UNE), affiliated with the Moroccan Labour Union (UMT), has revived debate over the criteria used to assign new Amazigh-language teaching posts in Sidi Bennour province. The union’s provincial offi...
A new excavation season at Oued Beht, in Morocco’s northwestern province of Khémisset, has reopened the question of where the societies of western North Africa stood in the early history of the Mediterranean basin. An international team of arch...
It is difficult today to discuss the state of the Amazigh language in Morocco without looking back at the long path it has traveled within the country’s institutions. The place the Amazigh language now occupies did not emerge overnight, nor did...
A quarter of a century after the Ajdir speech, which marked a founding moment in the promotion of the Amazigh language and culture, one central question needs asking: where does the project of teaching the Amazigh language in Moro...
To Khalid Samadi, former government official: Reopening the debate over the Tifinagh script today, more than two decades after its official adoption, calls for real scientific rigor and a full awareness of the path the Amazigh lan...
It seems the Amazigh language has become, for Driss El Ganbouri (a doctor, alas!), far more than a mere subject of criticism. In his discourse, it has turned into a permanent fixation: every time it appears in the public space, or...
Before delving into the heart of the matter, it’s worth pausing on the very concept of Amazighity. It is not merely a language or an ethnicity, as the hostile and alienated current (the “imeḥraṣn”) tries to portr...
Since the Amazigh language gained constitutional recognition in 2011, public debate in Morocco has moved beyond a narrow question of identity to become a genuine test of democracy—one that touches on citizenship, fairness, and equ...
A statement by researcher and civil rights activist Mohamed Chami has reignited debate over the implementation of Amazigh’s official status. He detailed a long process of engagement with state institutions that, he said, cul...
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- The Amazigh-oriented Tamunt party calls for a punitive blank vote
- Oued Beht: Africa’s Oldest Earthen Fortifications Outside the Nile Valley
- Morocco and Israel Agree to Upgrade Diplomatic Ties to Embassy Level
- Morocco’s Education Ministry Creates a Service to Support Amazigh Language Teaching Abroad
- Teachers’ Union Presses Ministry Over New Amazigh Teacher Assignments
- Amazigh Associations Sue Morocco’s Education Ministry Over Deferred Language Rollout
- The Amazigh Cause and Political Parties: Why Betting on Elections Goes Nowhere
- National Federation of Amazigh Associations Proposes 30 Commitments to Parties Ahead of Elections
- Tamaynut Says Excluding Tifinagh from License Plates Is Unconstitutional
- Just 26.80%: Amazigh Teaching’s Slow Rollout
- Royal Institute: No Room for Politicizing Tifinagh
- Tifinagh: Between Institutional Resolution and Ideological Controversy
- The Amazigh Cause: When Sarcasm Replaces Proof
- License plates: Amazigh activists see no justification for excluding Tifinagh
- Colombia Officially Recognizes Moroccan Sovereignty Over its Sahara
- Officializing Tamazight: Progress and Lingering Challenges
- Spanish Intelligence: Algeria Was the Starting Point of the Ceuta Assault
- Amazighity Endures: Beyond Hatred and Historical Myths
- The Amazigh Language: Recognized on Paper, Absent in Practice
- Science Settles It: 84% of Moroccans Are Genetically Amazigh, Debunking the Yemeni Origin Myth
