Berbers wanted Libya’s new leaders to accord Tamazight a similar status to that which it held in Morocco, where it is estimated more than half of the country’s 32 million people speak Berber ...

It also created the “Algerian academy for the Amazighe (Berber) language”, which is responsible for promoting Tamazight “in view of cementing, in the future, its official language status”.

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

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 ...

In Berber societies, he said, there is no rigid segregation of the sexes as in traditional Arab tribes, ... he included a constitutional amendment to make the Berber language, Tamazight, ...

Berber activists in Morocco fear the Islamists now controlling the government may try to roll back the progress they have made since ... questioned the need to make Tamazight an official language.

Reporting from Zintan, Libya — Before the Libyan uprising this year, Salah, a proud Arab, never would have approved if his sister had decided to marry a Berber, a long-oppressed ethnic group ...

Nevertheless, Tamazight - the family of disparate but connected Berber languages and dialects - has persisted, and remains dominant in a number of regional enclaves across the Maghreb.

Berbers wanted Libya’s new leaders to accord Tamazight a similar status to that which it held in Morocco, where it is estimated more than half of the country’s 32 million people speak Berber ...