Many Libyan Berbers view language revival as the first step towards getting their due in a new national compact. Getting there will take lots of help. The revolution will not be subtitled. Since the ...

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi, the ...

A BBC News piece on the teaching of “Berber” languages in Morocco has got the blogoma talking. The article, which outlines the educational options for learning and studying the language, and adds ...

The Berber language is being taught in Moroccan schools for the first time from Monday. The classes will be taught in just a few hundred primary schools to begin with, but the government says the aim ...

Berber communities in Algeria are calling on the government to allocate state funding to promote and preserve their indigenous language, a demand that has prompted several protests in the country’s ...

PRESIDENT Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced that the Berber language would become an official language in Algeria alongside Arabic after leaders of the large Berber minority called for a boycott of ...

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 ...

Finally free from Qaddafi's rule, Libyan Amazighs (also called Berbers) want to rebuild an ancient identity that was almost driven to extinction Berber protesters gather at the Prime Minister's office ...