Kabyle cooking has lost many of its recipes. Some peasant families nevertheless retained its original character, its basic philosophy, its own identity, despite decisive contributions from universal cuisine. Cereals, vegetables, grass, milk and olive oil,…
Category: History
Egyptology reviewed in the light of the Berber language In a study on the toponymic systems of Ancient Egypt, initiated in 2012 by several leading Western universities, researchers in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Coptic and Arabic…
TERTULLIAN’S TREATISE ON THE MANTLE. In the works of Tertullian, there is a small treatise entitled De Pallio (Of the Coat), which owes its fame to the difficulty of understanding it. The commentators, who are…
Apuleius: Psyche and cupidoNo writer has ever inspired and intrigued me as much as our beloved Lucius Apuleius of Madaura. His masterpiece ‘The Metamorphoses’ has survived the test of time, becoming the bedside book…
An article from 2009 taken from my old website Afrique du Nord.comWhen Egypt was Amazigh. An extraordinary scientific discovery has been made about Egypt. Mr Lucotte, a French anthropologist working in the UNITED STATES, has…
The ruins and tomb where the Amazigh King Syfaks is buried in Ain Timouchent, whose real name is Thala Touchent (the source of the fox), in western Algeria, were completely demolished by bulldozers on Thursday…
Read the first part of the article “About the white slave trade market in North Africa”Here I set my foot in what my Norwegian compatriots, in solidarity with the crimes done of other European nations,…
During the second half of the 19th century, archaeologists unearthed ruins in the desert, some of them substantial, evidence of great cities that appeared before their astonished eyes. It was clear that certain ancient civilisations…
The Fatimids, the Kabyles who founded CairoA dynasty of Kabyle kings originally from Bejaia in Algeria, which they made their capital, created by Ubaydallah el-Mahdi, who proclaimed himself Caliph when he took Kairouan in Tunisia…
Inauguration of the Juba II library and documentation centre in the Canary archipelago, by the “Asociación Canaria de la Cultura Tamazight”.The opening announcement states that the aim of this documentation centre is to introduce the…