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 ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AFP) — The Berbers are descendants of pre-Arab populations across North Africa, from the extreme west of Egypt to the countries of the Maghreb. The Berbers, who refer to themselves ...

The glare of an arc lamp reveals a stretch of dirt track where, to the beat of a drum, villagers huddled in a circle sing in honor of the bride. In a house nearby, veiled and bejeweled, 17-year old ...

IN MOROCCO their language has been made official. In Algeria they lead protests against President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's regime. In Tunisia they are rediscovering a long-suppressed identity. In Libya ...

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 to have ...

The origin of the Berber people is not clearly established. North Africa was peopled around the 16th millennium B.C. by a late Palaeolithic culture (Iberomarusian) [1] and then by a more advanced ...

The Berbers are the indigenous inhabitants of Libya and the Sahara. There are numerous tribes found in East Libya, West Libya and across the entire Sahara desert where they have been since the ...