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In this picture taken on March 21, 2023 school director Sondoss Saki gestures at a shool teaching Tamazight language in Zuwara, a majority-Berber community near the border with Tunisia.

Hedfi recalls wincing in response; many Indigenous people in Tunisia refer to themselves not as Berber, but as Amazigh, which means ‘free people’ in their Tamazight language.

A plurality (perhaps even a majority) are of Berber descent, and Arabism can imply an erasure of their identity. Tamazight, the Berber tongue, was long relegated to second-tier status.