International Year of Languages to be launched at UNESCO International Mother Language Day, celebrated on 21 February every year since 2000, will also mark this year the start of the International Year of Languages proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, which has entrusted its coordination to UNESCO. “Far from being a field reserved for analysis by specialists, languages lie at the heart of all social, economic and cultural life. That... 

Top: Astonished Yorkshireman, John Revis. Below: Revis and wife. My dear Yorkshirewomen and Yorkshiremen, Believing that Berbers had been black is a big mistake. Egyptian paintings, Hirodotus’s writings, and many coin effigies of Berber Emperors and Kings prove that Berbers had never been black. Berbers share the same physical characteristics with Celts, Britons and the Romans. So please, no more silly things about the Berbers, the ancestors of...