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Culture · Article Ahellil of Gourara: Poetry, Chorus and Oasis Life A guide to Gourara’s collective poetry and music, the standing circle and seated Tagerrabt, and the sources for learning and safeguarding a living repertoire.
Culture · Article Taskiwin: Martial Dance and Living Heritage in the High Atlas The western High Atlas performance, its decorated horns and shoulder movements, and the difference between heritage recognition and keeping a practice alive.
Culture · Article Ahidus: Singing and Moving Together in the Atlas Explore Ahidus through collective singing, frame drums, regional variations and the documented changes between communal gatherings and festival stages.
Culture · Article Ahwash: Poetry, Percussion and Collective Performance Meet the singers, dancers and drummers of Ahwash through regional distinctions, a documented High Atlas performance and named sound archives.
Modern history · Article Amazigh Language Recognition: What Changed in Law, and What Must Be Measured The constitutional milestones in Morocco and Algeria, the role of implementation laws, and how to distinguish government targets from actual provision.
Modern history · Article Amazigh Lives in France: Work, Song and Cultural Transmission A focused introduction through Kabyle labour migration, Slimane Azem’s career and documented association life in the Paris region.
Culture · Article Inoumar: A Collective Granary and the Work of Keeping Heritage Alive A named Anti-Atlas granary: storage, shared rules, guardianship and the evidence behind its conservation story.
Ancient history · Article Roman and Late Antique North Africa: Five Ways to Read a Changing World A city, two authors, a royal inscription and an excavation show why North African history cannot be reduced to successive labels on a map.
Medieval history · Article The Almohads: Doctrine, Government and a Changing Empire From Ibn Tumart’s community at Tinmel to Abd al-Mumin’s conquests and the successor states of the thirteenth century.
Medieval history · Article The Almoravids: From Saharan Reform to an Empire Across the Strait Sanhaja networks, Marrakesh, Maliki scholarship and al-Andalus: how a religious movement became an imperial government.
Medieval history · Article The Barghawata: A Kingdom Known Through Unequal Sources What medieval accounts and modern scholarship can establish about the Barghawata, their attributed scripture and their political world.
Modern history · Article The Berber Spring of 1980: Poetry, Protest and Public Language How a banned lecture in Tizi Ouzou became a mobilisation for language, cultural recognition and political freedoms.
Modern history · Article The Black Spring of 2001: Protest, State Violence and Accountability The shooting of Massinissa Guermah, protests across Kabylia and the inquiry into lethal force against demonstrators.
Ancient history · Article The Guanches and Indigenous Canary Islanders: North African Connections and Island Histories Tenerife, the wider archipelago, archaeology and ancient DNA: what connects indigenous Canary Islanders with North Africa, and what makes their histories distinct.
Medieval history · Article The Hafsids: Tunis, Ifriqiya and a Mediterranean Kingdom The dynasty that grew from Almohad government in Ifriqiya, with Tunis at the centre of trade, diplomacy and cultural life.
Medieval history · Article The Hammadids: Qal’a Beni Hammad, Béjaïa and the Central Maghreb The dynasty that emerged from the Zirid world, built a monumental inland capital and developed a coastal centre at Béjaïa.
Medieval history · Article The Kutama and the Rise of the Fatimids: From the Maghreb to Cairo How Kutama alliances helped establish the Fatimid caliphate in 909, why the coalition was contested, and how its history connects the central Maghreb with Egypt.
Medieval history · Article The Marinids: Fez, Scholarship and the Politics of the Maghreb The rise of the Banu Marin, their capital at Fez, campaigns across the Maghreb and the architectural evidence of their rule.
Modern history · Article The Mokrani Revolt of 1871: Resistance and Its Aftermath The uprising in colonial Algeria, the alliance behind it, and the lasting consequences of punishment and land sequestration.
Medieval history · Article The Revolt Beginning in 740: Why Umayyad Rule Fractured in the Maghreb Military grievances, taxation, religious arguments and the limits of empire in eighth-century North Africa.
Modern history · Article The Rif War, 1921–1926: Resistance, State-Building and Civilian Experience Annual, Abd el-Krim’s government, international appeals and the documentary record of colonial violence in northern Morocco.
Medieval history · Article The Rustamids and Ibadi Networks: Tahert Beyond the Dynasty An imamate, a ruling family and networks of learning and commerce: the Rustamids in eighth- and ninth-century North Africa.
Medieval history · Article The Zayyanids and the Kingdom of Tlemcen A dynasty of the central Maghreb whose capital joined political rivalry, commerce, scholarship and distinctive architectural patronage.
Medieval history · Article The Zirid Dynasty: From Fatimid Governors to Regional Rulers Sanhaja leadership, Fatimid connections, the Hammadid split and the changing cities of medieval Ifriqiya.
Culture · Article Amazigh Music and Poetry: Listening to Living Archives A listening guide to Ahellil, imzad, High Atlas performance and historical recordings, with a focus on the people and places behind the sound.
Culture · Article Amazigh Women: Knowledge, Work and Cultural Change Beyond the famous queens: women as musicians, makers, teachers and organisers, with examples from the Sahara, Morocco, Kabylia and Tunisia.
Places · Article Earth, Water and Community: Reading Amazigh Architecture Explore Aït-Ben-Haddou, the M’Zab, Ghadamès and oasis water systems through the practical choices that make settlements work.
Languages and scripts · Article How to Read an Ancient Inscription Without Inventing Its Story Discover how Libyco-Berber inscriptions are studied, why bilingual texts matter, and what a modern Tifinagh alphabet can and cannot tell you.
Ancient history · Article The Garamantes: A Connected World in the Ancient Sahara How settlements, crops, underground water channels and trade reveal an ancient Saharan society that was far more than a remote frontier.
Culture · Article Yennayer: The Amazigh New Year, Explained Why Yennayer falls in January, why dates differ, and how an agricultural celebration became a public expression of Amazigh identity.