As the Almoravid empire expanded into Al-Andalus, and as Muslim and Jewish families settled in North Africa after the ...

They were desert people, wearing veils over their faces to keep out the sand, ... Amira K. Bennison, The Almoravid and Almohad Empires (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) ...

A number of motifs were common amongst Amazigh women’s tattoos, including symbols of the sun, an eye of a partridge, a chain and flies.

Despite the suppression of all Amazigh culture and Arab nationalist indoctrination, I grew up knowing my culture and speaking Tamazight. I collected books and I loved researching our history and our ...