Thidrin Cover Thidrin musical band will give a concert during the evening of May 24th in Rotterdam; alongside, they will present their new album “BIYA”. This event is organized by Tilleli Association in Roterdam. The music of Thidrin is characterized by its original rhythms that deal with social and cultural issues such as the oppression of women, freedom of expression, social inequality, etc. The group has different musical styles and is seen... 

The Amazigh Poetry Forum in Rif Poetry has a highly considerable position in the Amazigh culture and literature. It is the fundmental inductive and refresher of the collective memory of Imazighen in the Rif. Tafsut Association for Culture and Development organized, in coordination with the Amazigh Studies Department, The Forum of the First Spring of Amazigh Poetry in Rif. The two-day literary event afforeded an appealing opportunity for poets, researchers... 

Tifswin Groupe The events of the play take place in two times; time of narration and time of the narrated, where the transition between the two times is accomplished through telling the story of ‘Afulay’, the youthful shepherd who found himself in the immemorial time. The narration takes place in a courtyard named ‘Azzarag ‘ in a pictured village where people are accustomed to the regular visits of Butizit, the unknown tale-teller. This... 

Atroj Concerts Mare Nostrum, the sea that simultaneously brings us together and apart, has pervaded for ages as a source of distance and dispute. And yet, it is the same wave that washes against the two shores: in Alhucemas and Almuñecar, in Suani and Salobreña, in Thara Yousef and Torrenueva… The same wind that blows in the coasts of Granada is named as its opposite in the Riff coast. The same sky, the same stars leading our way among the... 

Saghru Finally an album that approaches the mythical “Tiwira N yigenna” is released. The singer, Mbarek Oulaarbi, with his group “Saghru”, has just released his first album, an Amazigh (Berber) decent music, entitled “Muha”, thanks to the efforts of the group and Mbarek Oulaarbi or Mba as nicknamed by his fans and his public. This album represents a beneficiation for the Amazigh art in general and for that of the South-East of... 

Thifaouin Poster Tifaouin theatre group opens the theatrical season 2007/2008 with the first show that will be presented on Saturday 19 January 2008 at “Al Ghorfa Attijariya”, Al Hoceima. The new show is entitled “Thawarth Imdran ” authored by Laziz Ibrahimi and directed by the young directors Mohamed Ben Said and Ahmed Ajouini. The drama show tackles one of the local customs that Riffian people used to hold annually. This ritual incorporates... 

Zakaria Bakkali “One Way Ticket” is a short film about an Amazigh who arrives to Brussels for the first time and then he finds himself confronted with two different world that are separated by just one street. The film was directed by Zakaria Bakkali in collaboration with the operator Diedrick Degryse, the sound engineer Julien Chassaignon and was edited by Jerome Guiot ( a student at Brussels Institute of Cinema INRACI ).The film was... 

Taziri Tamiri On the 22nd November 2007 the ASSAM Troupe of the Amazigh Theatre performed “TAZIRI TAMIRI”, an unprecedented masterpiece. This was held by the Amazigh Association MASSINISSA in Tanger. The play is about a tragic love story which occurs in an unmerciful space, where everybody is fighting to survive. Tamiri is the spotlight in the play. She is the Goddess who symbolizes love, life and continuity. Tamiri died because she feels that... 

Tamurghi: Where has all goodness gone? The Rif troupe of Amazigh theatre that knows continuous success presented for the audience of Ait-Buayach the new play “Tamurghi”, or the grasshoppers migrating in swarms and destroying all the plants and crops. Behind the imposing title “Tamurghi”, there is a pealing voice of a thoughtful and a creative playwright, Ahmed Zahid. The whole members of the troupe cooperated to present a special theatrical... 

UNESCO A group of experts working for UNESCO have just finished a study dealing with the issue of the longevity of languages of the world. The study revealed an astonishing truth. Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and likely to disappear in this century. In fact, one falls out of use about every two weeks. It was in 1987 that UNESCO initiated an international programme,...