Abderrazaq Mihamou, a Berber from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco is an expert in novel techniques for language learning. He has teamed up with a group of researchers and linguists to put together an ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Each month, Inside the Middle East takes you behind the headlines to see a different side of this diverse region. The overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi has had a messy and often confused aftermath, as ...

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 ...

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 ...