Rioting raged on in Algeria’s Berber-speaking Kabylie region Monday despite a government bid to calm local anger by withdrawing more than 600 gendarmes. Berber protesters have demanded the complete ...

NEXT to religion, language provokes the most extreme passions in Algeria. When, on July 5th, a law came into force making Arabic the only language allowed in public life, fury exploded in the ...

According to linguist Salem Chaker, the political repression of Kabylia – the main Berber-speaking region of Algeria – is linked to the country's intolerant nationalist heritage. For more than two ...

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 ...

Clashes and street violence is being reported in several places in the Berber-speaking provinces of Bouira (90 km east of Algiers) and Bejaia (260 km east of Algiers), according to MEE journalist ...

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 ...

Whether he caressed a tender love song or cried a lament for his homeland, the singer Matoub Lounès could stir the feelings of Berber-speaking Algerians. When shadowy commandos assassinated the ...

Police shot dead at least 16 civilians as riots raged on in Berber-speaking areas of eastern Algeria, medical sources said, bringing the civilian death toll after almost a week of violence between ...

A HISTORY teacher in a Casablanca secondary school would appear an unlikely threat to North African Muslim orthodoxy. Yet Johadi Lhoucine is putting the finishing touches to a project liable to shake ...

More than 100,000 Berbers have taken to the streets of Algiers to protest about the killing of scores of rioters in the Berber-speaking Kabylie region. Demonstrators flowed through the main streets of ...

Washington, DC — Demonstrators clashed again with police on Tuesday in several towns and villages in the Berber-speaking region of Kabylia in northeastern Algeria. Reports from Azazga, 110 kilometres ...