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Morocco's Berbers are "people in their own country who don't exist," complains Mahjoubi Aherdan, the charismatic leader of the National Popular Movement, a political party that represents rural ...
Berber carpet is durable and strong, but it also requires special handling when cleaning to ensure it stays snag-free and ...
Ancient Morocco endures side-by-side with its modern counterpart, so those who visit this exotic country in North Africa can witness remnants of life unchanged in thousands of years. I’m just ...
The Berber people have lived in the Toubkal valley for thousands of years, planting orchards and herding goats. As we trekked higher, forest gave way to boulder fields, red rocks and growing signs ...
The Amazigh – or Berber – New Year has become an official holiday in Morocco, the country’s king has said, in the latest acknowledgement of the Indigenous group that has campaigned for years ...
For centuries the fierce Berber tribes, sons of Ham, have been the scourge of Morocco. Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French ...
My mother-in-law and I have always been close, but traveling to Morocco with me and my husband made us closer than ever. We ...
The Berbers have been in Morocco for centuries – Islamic (Sunni Muslim) make up most of the Berber community, but a large Jewish Berber population could be found in Morocco up until the 1960s.
Maybe you can't, but even one pen can make a few people happier." "People to people" is not just a phrase to the Berbers of the High Atlas Mountains.
French Morocco (pop. 9,000.000) is booming. Huge hydroelectric projects are transforming the barren land into a fertile country, new industries are drawing thousands of people into the cities. But ...
Long referred to as Berbers, many tribespeople from the area prefer to be called Amazigh, or Imazighen, which means "free people".