For Moroccan Berbers, the king's recent constitutional rewrite is all rhetoric. Literally. Driven to reform by protests earlier this year that were inspired by the fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian ...

People from Amazigh, north of Morocco, hold a Amazigh flag and a banner, as they gather for a protest in Casablanca April 24, 2011. Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful ...

2001-03-16 04:00:00 PDT Rabat, Morocco-- A war of words over the Berber and Arabic languages is heating up in Morocco, threatening to divide the kingdom in much the same way the battle between French ...

Arayid, Morocco – A cluster of stone huts sit in the foothills of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains, too dry to grow grass for livestock. The land produces little, except almonds and prickly pears. There is ...

After a shocking earthquake in 2023, Richard Branson’s luxury retreat Kasbah Tamadot has come back bigger and better than ...

A group of Moroccan Berbers launched an organization that is devoted to fighting anti-Semitism and to strengthening cultural ties with Israel. (JTA) — A group of Moroccan Berbers launched an ...

Protests are growing in Morocco over the authorities' policy of Arabisation. More than 60% of Moroccans claim to be Berbers - the original inhabitants of North Africa. But four years ago, the ...

The Amazigh – or Berber – New Year has become an official holiday in Morocco, the country’s king has said, in the latest acknowledgement of the Indigenous group that has campaigned for years to have ...

The Berber language is being taught in Moroccan schools for the first time from Monday. The classes will be taught in just a few hundred primary schools to begin with, but the government says the aim ...

Aischa Bardoun sees herself as a trail-blazer. She is one of the first Moroccans to get a masters degree in the Amazigh language, spoken by the country's Berber majority. "We are very excited," she ...