Far from Cairo’s bustle, Egypt’s minority communities are fighting to preserve their ancient languages against the tide of ...

Ethnic Berbers – the indigenous inhabitants of North Africa whose culture predominated in the region prior to the 7th century Arab invasion – were among Morocco’s earliest inhabitants, ...

Berber was the main language of North Africa before Arabic arrived with the Muslim conquest in the 7th century. It is still spoken in the Sahara and in mountainous parts of Algeria, ...

YEFREN, Libya — Libya's revolution has led to renewed demands from the country's Berber minority for cultural and language rights and full integration into the Arab-majority country. Such ...

Called "Berbers" by the rest of the world, these people call themselves Imazighen, which means "free men." They are, however, anything but free. Since the seventh century, ...

Arab Spring inspires Berbers to push for their… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) ...

For the indigenous people of Northern Africa, Jan. 14 is a day to celebrate their culture and religion. It reminds Berbers living in the U.S. of the struggle to preserve their identity far from home.

In Berber societies, he said, there is no rigid segregation of the sexes as in traditional Arab tribes, and there is more of a separation between religion and state.

People from Amazigh, north of Morocco, hold a Amazigh flag and a banner, as they gather for a protest in Casablanca April 24, 2011. Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful ...

FROM THE JET AGE of a SAC base back nearly 4,000 years to Moses — an impossible journey? Not for Lucy Ann Bent, third-grade teacher in the dependents school at Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco ...

Berbers were Morocco's first inhabitants, and today they are still the majority, accounting for about 60 percent of Morocco's 30 million citizens.