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 cher...
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 N...
Conquerors, colonizers and other foreign powers that to different extents have tried to override and reshape Amazigh identity, have influenced the Amazigh people of North Africa and the Sahe...
There’s no better way to belong to a people than to write in their language.”Heinrich Böll, German writer (1917 – 1985) The Algerian singer Hamid Cheriet, better known as Idir, died in France at the a...
Historically the Amazigh have faced many obstacles and hurdles in the recognition and expression of their history, language, and culture. These boundaries are strongly influenced by historic conflicts...
