Cover Fatoum has been recently working on a new CD, which is going to be released during the coming week. This CD includes four songs:Urar inu, Lalla Tamurt, Asemmid and Je Cours. Urar inu & Lalla Tamurt have been released earlier in a demo CD, but in this new CD they have been rearranged and played differently by using some additional instruments. Fatoum will perform a live concert in Larache, Morocco in August the 8th, 2009. She will also... 

Second Edition of Film Festival in Tiznit After the success of the first edition of the film festival in Tiznit that took place last year from 31 July to 04 August 2008. Tiznit association for culture and films, in collaboration with the Moroccan cinematographic center, organizes the second edition of the Film Festival in Tiznit starting from 05 August 2009. Along side with the programmed short films and long ones (category 35 mm & DVD formats),... 

A two days concert had taken place on the 26 and 27 of June in Al Hoceima to celebrate the opening of the new PLAZA DEL RIF, which was redesigned lately. These two days concerts featured some of the most prominent bands in the Al Hoceima including Massinissa, Thaghrast, Esperanza (or Rayas) Syphax, and Tifyur. What made these concerts remarkable is the radical change and evolution that these bands have witnessed. All bands have made very magnificent... 

Plaza del Rif A two days concert had taken place on the 26 and 27 of June in Al Hoceima to celebrate the opening of the new PLAZA DEL RIF, which was redesigned lately. These two days concerts featured some of the most prominent bands in the Al Hoceima including Massinissa, Thaghrast, Esperanza (or Rayas) Syphax, and Tifyur. What made these concerts remarkable is the radical change and evolution that these bands have witnessed. All bands have made... 

Poster Timazighin of Nederland Association , for women and Amazigh cultural aspects, are organizing several workshops during the month of June on Saturdays about the poetic Rifian heritage: IZRAN. Anyone interest to participate in this subject, please contact Timazighin at info@timazighin.nlTimazighin Nederland was founded on February the 22nd. Timazighin Nederland is a network of women who acknowledge and answer to the needs and interests of Amazigh... 

Thaghrast Rocks Mawazine Festival Thaghrast, a group of young talented musicians participated in Mawazine Festival on the 18th of May 2009. The group was programmed as it was the winner of 2008 Géneration Mawazine, a competition organized by the Association Maroc-Cultures, which is also the organizer of Mawazine Festival in Rabat. Thaghrast rocked the audience with their unique rhythms ranging from Gnawi, Gharnati, Reggae, Amazigh and other world... 

Thifswin Thifswen association for the Amazigh Theater in Al Hoceima has participated in the first edition of the Amazigh Theater in Tizi Ouzzou that took place from the 7th to the 12th of May 2009. This Festival is an initiative of the Regional Theater of Tizi Ouzzou. The aim of this festival was to give a chance to the Amazigh troops of theater to meet in Tizi Ouzzou to exchange ideas and methods or improving the Amazigh Theater and paving its way... 

Rayas Rayas or La Esperanza reaches the final in Mawazine competition 2009. Rayas is most known under the name La Esperanza, which is just the translation of the word Rayas in Spanish. Rayas is a young group of talented musicians from Al Hoceima that work together to promote the Amazigh music, and especially the Rifian one. The name Rayas means Hope in Tamazight. The group went through three stages in this competition: Selection, Semi-Final, and... 

Imetlaa concert in Mawazine Imetlaa gave a very successful concert on Sunday, 17th May 2009 in Mawazine festival. Imetlaa sang most of of their famous songs, such as Ag Ijj n U3echi, Nachin Dhimazighan, Izran, Ameqnudh, Seqsix Xam Thaziri, in addition to that Imetlaa sang a new song for the first time on the stage entitled Thlullucht Idurar. As it is part of Imetlaa current project: the bridge between tradition and modernity, the group was accompanied... 

An Amazigh Festival is to be Launched in Australia A newly formed community group called “Amazigh Association of Australia” (AAA) in Sydney is preparing for an Amazigh festival to introduce the Amazigh culture to the Australian community. AAA is a non-political and non-religious organization that seeks to promote the North African Amazigh/Berber culture in harmony and tolerance with the people of Australia as part of the Federal government’s...