To recycle horizons
Tuareg Poetry

Ijawwan n tayri
Brahim Lasri Amazigh

Germaine Tillion
(1907 - 2008)

AZA
Tamghra wuccen

Amawas

Kawsan

Mohamed Oussous, Ixfawen ... d isasan. [...] Mohamed Oussous is one of the members of a generation of young writers writing in the Amazigh language. Amongst his strongest influences, he cites Azayku, which is not surprising, as the latter’s first collection of poems, Timitar (Signs), published in 1988, is an example to a whole generation. (...) >>>

Omar Derouich, Taskiwin. [...] Dans l'une des ruelles de la vieille ville apparaît un enseignant ; prenant le chemin du boulot, il traverse la palmeraie et se précipite à l'école toute proche. Aujourd'hui, il y organisera un sit-in, il ne sait pas jusqu'à quand il cessera cette action. Il en a marre d'avoir à garder cinquante-deux petits enfants en classe : certains partagent leur pupitre à trois ; ce qui l'ennuie le plus c'est ce manque de moyens pour apprendre l'amazigh (...)  >>>

The Anefgu thirty-seven. The winter of 2007 killed around one hundred people in the Atlas mountains of Morocco. The village of Anefgu alone, with no electricity, running water, doctor, ambulance or pharmacy, saw thirty-seven people, mostly babies, die due to a lack of medecine and its cemetery had to be made larger. This collection pays tribute to the Anefgu thirty-seven. >>>

Berber Manuscripts in the Maghreb and in European Collections. This collects together the various Acts of the Aix-en-Provence workshops, which were held on the 9th and 10th of August, 2002, on the initiative of the Book Conservation Centre, in the context of the MANUMED programme, and that of the Institute for Research and Study on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM). (...) >>>

Tifin, Berber Literature Review.

It is a commonly shared conviction that to write in Berber is, for Berbers, an existential choice which places the author on the front line of demands for his or her identity.Berbers do not think of writing as a pointless exercise or a worldly pleasure. They think of it as a form of resistance. (...) >>>