A Berber girl dressed in traditional attire at a Berber cultural festival in Tripoli. Public displays of Amazigh culture were forbidden under the Gadhafi regime.

Algerian identity cannot be reduced to a singular narrative. It is the result of a long and complex historical journey shaped ...

Algeria’s Berbers protest for Tamazight language rights Protesters have rallied in Algeria over the rejection of a measure that would have formalised Berber language teaching.

And when King Mohammed VI presented a raft of reforms to defuse the protests shaking the country last year, he included a constitutional amendment to make the Berber language, Tamazight, an ...

Since the Algerian government announced, on January 5, that the new constitution would recognise Berber (Tamazight) as an official language, the North African press has been abuzz with speculation ...

Berber activists in Morocco fear the Islamists now controlling the government may try to roll back the progress they have made since the Arab Spring.

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 former Libyan leader Muammar ...

A Berber boy, decorated in the image of the Amazigh flag, takes part in a protest outside government offices demanding recognition of Berber language and culture in Libya's new consitution.