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- Buluggin ibn Ziri The Sanhaja ruler who governed for the Fatimids, helped establish the Zirid dynasty and reshaped cities in the central Maghreb.
- Abu Yazid The Nukkari leader whose tenth-century revolt nearly overturned Fatimid rule in Ifriqiya.
- Masuna A ruler attested by a Latin inscription at Altava in 508, a window into government after Roman imperial authority in western North Africa.
- Ibn Khaldun The historian of the Maghreb whose writings remain fundamental sources for Amazigh history and need to be read with their own context in view.
- Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine A Moroccan Amazigh writer in French whose poetry and experimental prose connect exile, political criticism and the disruptive possibilities of language.
- Fatou Seidi Ghali and Les Filles de Illighadad A guitarist and singer from Niger whose work with Les Filles de Illighadad brings women’s tendé practice into conversation with Tuareg guitar music.
- Najat El Hachmi A writer whose discussion of Amazigh family storytelling, migration and writing in Catalan opens a precise route into language and literary belonging.
- Ibrahim al-Koni An Arabic-language novelist with a Tamasheq-speaking Tuareg background whose fiction makes the Sahara a setting for questions of power, obligation and human life.
- Hawad A poet and painter from the Aïr whose work connects Tamajaght, translation and graphic experiment through the practice he calls furigraphie.
- Numidia The ancient North African kingdom, later a Roman province, covering much of what is now northern Algeria and western Tunisia.
- Mauretania (the ancient kingdom) The ancient kingdom and later Roman provinces of north-western Africa — modern northern Morocco and western Algeria — not the modern state of Mauritania.
- Kabylia The mountainous region of northern Algeria east of Algiers, heartland of the Kabyle language and of the modern Amazigh cultural movement.
- The Rif Northern Morocco’s Mediterranean mountain region, including Tarifit-speaking areas and Arabic-speaking districts, with histories of resistance and migration.
- The Souss and Anti-Atlas The fertile Souss plain and the arid Anti-Atlas of southern Morocco: Tashelhit-speaking country with collective granaries, argan woodland and a long commercial reach.
- The High and Middle Atlas Morocco’s central mountain ranges: cedar plateaux, high peaks and valley systems that shaped pastoral economies, customary law and the movements that founded empires.
- The Aurès Mountains The high massif of eastern Algeria, Tacawit-speaking, associated with the resistance tradition of Dihya and with the launch of the Algerian war of independence.
- The Mzab Valley Five fortified Ibadi towns in the northern Algerian Sahara, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most remarkable urban traditions in North Africa.
- The Nafusa Mountains The escarpment of north-western Libya, an early centre of Ibadi learning and the heartland of Libya’s Amazigh communities.
- Siwa Oasis The oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert that is the easternmost Amazigh-speaking community, site of the ancient oracle of Amun and of the salt-built town of Shali.
- The Ahaggar (Hoggar) The volcanic massif of the central Algerian Sahara, a core Tuareg region and neighbour to the rock-art plateau of the Tassili n’Ajjer.
- Cirta / Constantine The city beneath modern Constantine was a Numidian royal centre whose history can be followed through texts, coins and inscriptions.
- Dougga / Thugga A hilltop city in Tunisia where Numidian, Punic and Roman evidence survives together, including a famous bilingual inscription.
- Volubilis / Walila The archaeology of Volubilis reaches beyond its Roman monuments into an early medieval town and the beginnings of Idrisid rule.
- Marrakesh A living city whose monuments and objects connect an Almoravid foundation, Almohad rule and later Moroccan history.
- Tinmel The High Atlas site associated with Ibn Tumart and an Almohad memorial mosque, severely damaged in the 2023 earthquake.
- Sijilmasa The medieval Tafilalet city whose markets, mint and oasis landscape connected the Maghreb with the Sahel.
- Qal’a Beni Hammad Mosque, palaces and mountain defences at the first Hammadid capital in the central Maghreb.
- Tassili n’Ajjer A sandstone plateau whose paintings, engravings and archaeological remains record changing Saharan worlds across millennia.
- Djerba A Tunisian island whose language communities, religious connections and dispersed settlement history require attention at different scales.
- Timgad The Roman colony of Thamugadi: a planned grid, a growing city and changing buildings on the northern side of Algeria’s Aurès Mountains.