In the city of Tizi-Ouzou, in the indigenous Kabylie region of Algeria, a human rights seminar was to be held July 23rd through 25th, 2010, for the purpose of international promotion and defense of human rights, organized by the Amazigh World Congress (CMA), Kabylie's Women Organization (AFK), and the Kabylie-Solidarité Organization, with the support of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC). The UNO provided pertinent material for this seminar. Its inception was (...)

''The Shining Ones''
An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization
by Helene E. Hagan
The first edition of this book was published on September 1, 2000. I subsequently continued to research the topic, with particular attention to the most recent French and North African findings. From this research, I felt it might be appropriate not only to add a number of revisions to the original manuscript, but also to insert an additional chapter on the Culture of the Early (...)

With the formation of a new provisional government of the Algerian region of Kabylia, the Western world might have gained a precious ally to fight al-Qaeda in one of its most strategic hideouts. If only someone noticed that this government was established in the first place.
What the Movement for the Autonomy of Kabylia [MKA] has been protesting is the Islamization of their society that the Algerian government was imposing, and particularly the introduction of Arabic as the official (...)

On Monday, September 22 nd, 2008, the Algerian police department has made a raid into a library in Tizi Wuzu where members of World Amazigh Congress (CMA) were holding a press coference .An ardent and arrogant police chief with his escort have conducted a raid of shame, he stood up in the middle of the place and ordered the Moroccans Amazigh among the Kabylians to follow him to the police building without any given explanation.
Instead of conducting their swoop operations on the offenders (...)

(fr) Le Bhoutan, la Suisse et la Kabylie : Avenir et dévalorisation
Sovereign Mountains
As large as and more mountainous than Switzerland, it is located in the heart of the Himalayan chain between India and China. Its greatest asset is its Buddhist philosophy. This philosophy is based on a Tibetan doctrine but unlike Tibet, Bhutan is a sovereign country. Bhutan is a theological monarchy that perpetuates itself in and by its traditions. Its way of life did not include television until 1999. (...)

On July 31st, the German Friendship Association Germany­Kabylie presided by Lyazid Abid organized a conference, jointly animated by Mr. Ferhat Mehenni, President of MAK and Mr. Ulrich Delius, President of the "Society of Endangered Peoples". Before starting his intervention, Mr. Mhenni invited the audience to to observe a minute of silence in memory of Farid ACID, who died the day before in Nantes(France) from bullet wounds he received from government security forces during the 2001 (...)

They have largely been ignored by the rest of the world, but some analysts say the U.S. might soon need to reach out to a little known indigenous group in Algeria known as the Kabyles, for help in the war against al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists who operate from the North African nation.
The Kabyles are part of the indigenous Berber peoples of North Africa and who in recent years have been pursuing self rule for the territory they call Kabylia within Algeria. A largely secular group of (...)

Everlasting promises of April
Here is April! Here is spring passing by! Once again, it reinvigorates the insatiable instinct of life that always drives the mankind soul since the time beginning. A spring hunts another. It brings in the renewal bleeding of its natural colours and shimmering green, green as the hope which pulses the human deep heart and exhaling again its invigorating scents to stimulate further the everlasting human desire to live in harmonious societies throughout the (...)

While reading this paper, please bear in mind that all those who opposed the French Revolution which called for human/people rights-peace, democracy, equality, justice and freedom-find their counterparts in today's conservative, fascist and totalitarian Algerian Arab-Muslims oppressors whereas all those who advocated the French Revolution (satisfaction of human/people rights) can be measured up to the members of the Movement of the Autonomy of Kabylia.
EDMUND BURKE VERSUS THOMAS PAINE (...)

in french
7 years after having formulated its first claim, MAK (Movement for autonomy of Kabylia) has formally officialised its request for a regional autonomy to state authorities; a copy was addressed to international authorities and to Nelson Mandela. Adekar was choosen by the autonomist movement to send the registered mail, this locality is located at 1000 meter above the sea , mid-way between Vgayet and Tizi-Ouzou and close to Amirouche's headquarters at Akfou. The delegation was (...)

For quite some time in our nation's relatively short history, whenever we faced severe difficulties regarding national interests, Send In The Marines was our frequent call.
Iran—that beacon of humanity (just ask the ghosts of those Iranians slaughtered in the streets struggling for the most basic freedoms, or those of Iranian Kurds and other minorities being hung and otherwise killed for the same reasons)—is contemplating sending Revolutionary Guard marines to escort future (...)

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East's Kurdish issue? (Part I)
The Algerian society, an ideologically hostile environment Cultural assertions in an Arab and Islamist environment
In Algeria, since its independence, the state has defined itself through the Constitution as Arab and Muslim. The linguistic and cultural policy put in place by the FLN (Front de Libération Nationale-a socialist party in Algeria that obtained independence from France) and by the different (...)

PROVISIONAL KABYLE GOVERNMENT
G-P-K
LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT
The formation of GPK follows three main constraints: Trust, fairness between the three major sub regional entities Kabyle (Tuvirett, Tizi-Ouzou and Vgayet), an essential female presence.
1) Ferhat Mehenni, President
2) Arezki Boussaid: Minister of institutions, administration and security (Interior)
3) Arezki At Hemmuc: Minister of International Relations
4) Lyazid Abid: Minister of Communications, Justice and Human (...)

The Kabyle question in contemporary Algeria: Middle East's Kurdish issue? - Last Part
The existence of diverse Maghreb "cultures" has for a long time been ignored by official discourses.
Ethno-sociological studies have been numerous to reveal the reality of the coexistence, in the greater Maghreb, of three principal cultures linked to the usage of three languages: Berber, Arabic and French. However, it seems like the Algerian tendency has been marked by nationalist struggles against (...)