History

Press review : ancestral secrets of the Berber pottery elucidated

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:26 by Jugurten

The decorative patterns of the clay objects manufactured in the center of Maghreb would go back to the Neolithic era. Another illuminating exhibition in Quai Branly.

A symposium about Fadhma n Soumer’s popular resistence next July

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:18 by Jugurten

To achieve this ambitious program that foresees also visits to historic sites of the resistance of 1857 and the shooting of thematic documentary films , the president of the organizing committee, Ouali Aït Ahmed, asks for donations from citizens, public and private business corporations to complete an estimated budget of 800 000 dinars.

The etymology of the word “Berber”

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:15 by Jugurten

For some people, the origin of the word “Berber” would be Greek; their argument rely on the fact that the Greeks called people who spoke a language other than Greek “the Barbarians”.

The etymology of the word “Amazigh”

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 11:13 by Jugurten

This is an article that can be an answer to the Libyan leader Al-Kadhafi, who once declared that the word “Amazigh” is created by the colonialists to divide the North African people who, according to him, are Arabs.

The etymology of the word “Amazigh”
by: Djaafar Messaoudi

Discovery of an engraved stone in Lybic characters

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 00:21 by Jugurten

Ath-Bimoun(Béjaia). Discovery of an engraved stone in Lybic characters

An engraved stone in Lybic characters was discovered in Ifoughallen, village of Ath-Bimoun, Region of Béjaia. This engraved stone was discovered while a road of Ifoughallen was on project. The discoverer didn’t inform the specialists because he thought it was an ordinary one.

Kabyls who helped save Jews from the Nazis

Posted Thu, 09/11/2008 - 00:20 by Jugurten

While we’re on the subject of Robert Satloff’s book on ’Righteous Arabs’ who saved Jews during the Holocaust (see below), it is only fair to point out that the rescue of Jews by the rector of the Paris Mosque was almost entirely a ’Kabyl rescue effort’.

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