It is quite strange to experience that the whole world uses the so-called Arabic numerals, except the Arabs themselves who have chosen Hindu numerals. What is their origin, and why don’t the Arabs use them?…
Tag: Mediterranean
For decades many African countries are under the control of armed dictatorships, supported, condoned by the West. They deliver their country to the plundering of multinationals, apply the edicts of the World Bank, holding the vast…
Kabylia, an area just over 25,000 square kilometers with a 200 kilometer costal line on the Mediterranean, is the homeland to 10 million Kabyles. This land, which is part of Algeria, has never been recognized…
The Kabyle writer Youcef Zirem wrote after the great march of Paris April 17, 2016: “This is a founding day, this day will not be forgoten in the collective memory. It is a Parisian march…
La Tribune: You have just created an organization with Ameziane Kezzar, Mare Nostrum (marenostrumarcadia.org), who aims to highlight Mediterranean antiquity. What is the meaning of your initiative? MOHAND LOUNACI: Often we forget that the Mediterranean…
Awaγzen, ogre or Cyclops? In Kabyle imaginary, awaγzen or awaγzniw is a tale monster [1] that everyone imagines his way. Not yet present in the Kabyle artistic iconography, we can see a wild animal or an anthropomorphic…
The writer regrets that France supports the Algeria dictature, “the armed wing of the FLN, promoter of the religion of hatred “against our country. LE FIGARO. -Francois Hollande is the first French head of state…
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On the occasion of the 3rd Congress of the Movement for Self-Determination of Kabylia (MAK), Boualem Sensal, Algerian writer and essayist of world renown, sent a little message to the participants of the MAK. Indeed,…
In March the villages of Kabylia are preparing a large march. The march of flowers to welcome the summer. Men and women, young and old, armed with drums, flutes, guitars and flags, make the processions,…