Numedia is going to perform a live concert in Mawazine Festival at the stage of Salé (Morocco) on the 27rd of May, 2013. This concert is programmed in Mawazine festival in its 12th edition. Moha Mellal & Izenzaren are also going to perform in the same festival. Founded in 1994, Numedia is a music group from Al Hoceima perpetuating traditions, identity and Amazigh culture. Since 2002, the band has participated in many festivals in Morocco and... 

Libya Ibraren, a new Amazigh TV in Libya Having a satellite TV in Tamazight as a language of broadcasting in Libya was a dream hard to be achieved. However, the wind of change has made it possible with the sweeping away of the Kaddafi regime that put a total control on the Media and didn’t recognize the right of Imazighen in having their own channel. On January the 13th, 2013 a new Amazigh channel came into existence.  It was named “LIBYA IBRAREN’’. ... 

SOLEI-MAN, a film by Mohamed El Badaoui Soleiman is a fisherman in an isolated island in northern Morocco (Al Hoceima). He lives with his wife, Aisha, and his son, Ismael who is sick with cancer.  Soleiman and Aicha are in love and form a happy family… until one day Eva appears, and is captivated by Soleiman. Overtaken by jealousy  Eric puts an end to their romantic vacations, leaving Eva behind and taking with him her passport and the rest... 

Asuggas Amaynu Amazigh 2963, Tripoli, Libya (12/01/2013) For the first time after the fall of Kaddafi, the capital of Libya, Tripoli is going to host a mega concert celebrating the Amazigh new Year 2963 in Tripoli Stadium on the 12th of January 2013. The concert is featuring Khalid Izri, Takfarinas, Danya Ben Sasi, and others. An international conference is also organized during the same event. During this conference, the Amazigh World Congress will... 

Idir – Adrar Inu Idir, the pioneer of the Amazigh music and the messenger of the Amazigh culture to the world is going to release his new album “Adrar Inu” in January, 2013, which coincidences with the Amazigh New Year 2963. “Adrar inu” is a tribute to the home land of the artist which continues to resonate in his memory even after 4 decades in exile. Idir’s discography is rich and varied, and for sure this new album will add more... 

RIFANA album relase party In November the second, the UNISCO Club for the Protection of the Rifian Heritage has organized the party of signing the first album of the emerging band RIFANA. The new album is entitles “Texseghcem” (I Love You). This has happened in the presence of many artists and poets. The president of the previously mentioned club has said that the party is organized in the honor of RIFANA as its songs meet up with the goals of... 

Amazigh Studies Day in Mexico The National School of Anthropology and History in the city of Mexico has announced that it will organize its second congress this year under the theme of “Language, literature, Resistance and the Social Movement of People of North Africa:  the Resistance and the Identity of the population of North Africa and Others”. The last year edition was a major success as that it has attracted many participants. Ouajd Karkar,... 

Imetlaa new project: Musical collaboration with the divas of north African music In the recent past Imetlaa has achieved a progressive success in various genres which came as a result of joint work with various bands. They have tackled the issue of Amazigh-Andalous music where they have dealt mainly with historical, cultural and musical similarities between Izran the songs of Rif and Flamenco of Spain. Imetlaa had also worked on a second project called... 

The rock engravings date back more than 8,000 years and include an image of the Sun depicted as a pagan god. Muslim hardliners known as Salafists have been blamed for destroying ancient stone carvings in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains. The rock engravings date back more than 8,000 years and include an image of the Sun depicted as a pagan god. “They were destroyed several days ago,” said Aboubakr Anghir of the Amazigh League for Human... 

A Berber girl dressed in traditional attire at a Berber cultural festival in Tripoli. Public displays of Amazigh culture were forbidden under the Gadhafi regime. The overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi has had a messy and often confused aftermath, as rival groups jostle for a stake in the new Libya after four decades of dictatorship. But while the realities of Libya’s new order remain murky, for the country’s Berber minority, the task ahead is...