Amazigh TV Logo Amazigh TV has been launched through the Internet on the 13th of January 2007. This unique television channel is going to daily broadcast programmes in Tamazight (Berber), the mother tongue of the vast majority of the Moroccans in the Netherlands. With the coming of this private channel, for the first time in the Netherlands the wish of this target group to watch programmes in their mother tongue is being granted. Amazigh TV is an... 

Amazigh association seeks alternative to IRCAM The Amazigh Network for Citizenship will organise a national seminar from Friday (14 April) through Sunday, inviting more than 40 Amazigh associations, with the intention of discussing and approving a draft law to establish an alternative body to the Royal Institute for Amazigh Culture and forming a pressure group to advocate it and bring it into existence. Ahmed Arhamoosh, president of the association,... 

Discrimination of Amazigh Music in Studio 2M 2M, a Moroccan channel, remains a racist channel. Even if the decision makers always say that Tamazight will have its full rights in the media, the facts are proving the opposite. Abdellah BOUZANDAG, the singer of Tafsut Band was recently a victim of this discrimination by 2M channel. In a competition program called Studio 2M, the participation of Bouzandag was not accepted in the 3 stage of the competition... 

Matoub Lounes On June 25, 1998, approximately 12:30 PM local time, a car driving along a mountainous road in eastern Algeria was stopped and fired upon by masked gunmen at a roadblock. The driver died; his three female passengers were wounded. Such attacks have become a common occurrence in today’s Algeria, six years into a bitter civil war that has claimed more than 75,000 (mainly civilian) lives. The incident occurred within two...