North Africa holds a distinctive place in the history of both the Mediterranean and African worlds. Commonly known as the ...

The "counter-monument" to the colonial-era statue of Sgt Blandan, in the French city of Nancy, is a first of its kind. For decades, the trauma of Algeria’s gruesome independence struggle lay buried ...

12 September 2012 The Moroccan government promises to make Tamazight classes more accessible to pupils. While Morocco's revised constitution granted an official status to the Tamazight language ...

On the occasion of World Novel Week, which begins on October 13 each year, Global Voices spoke with a group of Algerian novelists who write in the Amazigh language. For these writers, writing in ...

It is a 2,000-year-old North African language spoken by about three million people and has now been given a global online platform by the world's most popular search engine. Tamazight is spoken by ...

The Imazighen, also known as Amazighen, are the indigenous peoples of North Africa. A majority of the world may know them as the "Moors" or "Berber," a term coined by the Romans and popularized by the ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the UNDP, has launched an online video campaign on Egyptian tribes: Tribal Talks. This 4-7-minute video series, running from 20 June to 27 ...

Morocco is set to kick off the next school year with an Amazigh, English focused-curriculum, shifting the scope from the state's longly beloved language, French. Last week, Morocco's Ministry of ...

A pupil shyly approached the whiteboard, picked up a marker and carefully traced a letter from the Berber alphabet as the teacher watched -- a scene unimaginable under Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.