From the U.S., Libya may seem like a homogenous place, the setting for a distant war. But Libya’s scant six million people are surprisingly culturally diverse, and Libya’s indigenous inhabitants, ...

The Amazigh people are the indigenous people of North Africa, with tribal populations stretching from Siwa in Egypt to Semara in Morocco. In a region where identity and history are often exploited as ...

Amazigh people wear traditional clothes as they celebrate their new year outside the parliament, with calls on the government to recognize the day and put more effort into supporting their language in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since she was young, Salima Sadi's poems have been a way for her to express her people's identity struggle and culture. Many ...

Across North Africa, the Amazigh people have been coming together to usher in the year 2976. They have, unfortunately, not cracked time travel. Rather, they are almost a thousand years ahead of much ...

This newcomer formed an alliance at the end of 2020 with two political parties that are members of the government majority, the Rassemblement National des Indépendants (RNI) and the Mouvement ...

This article is written by Mohammed Udern. It is part of a series examining free expression and information access in civic spaces across six language communities in the MENA region. As a child, ...

Hundreds of people gathered in Morocco‘s capital Rabat to mark the start of the Amazigh new year with a sit-in, calling on the state to make the celebration a national holiday. “This day is an ...

KHEMISSET, Morocco - “All the governments since independence have shared the vision that Morocco is an Arabophone country, where there are only Arabs, and only one religion, Islam. This meant we had ...

Starting on Tuesday 12 January, Amazigh people in Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, and parts of Egypt, as well as the diaspora, will celebrate Yennayer, the Amazigh new year. The year 2021 in the ...