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... 

Khalid Izri & Thidrin in Concert in Rotterdam The 4th edition of the Amazigh festival in Rotterdam will be closing with a special and unique concert of the two leading Rifian bands, Khalid Izri and Thidrin on Saturday, May 9th 2009. This event is organized by Telilli Association, which is a nongovernmental association based in Rotterdam, Nederland. The association has been active in the last four years, the proof for that is the organization of... 

Imetlaa Imetlaa has given a successful concert in Brussels on the 11th of April 2009. This concert was programmed in darkoom festival, which was organized by a Moroccan and Flemish mission of culture in Brussels. The Daarkom festival offered a mix of music, film, art, literature and conferences. The majority of Moroccans residing in Brussels (more than 90%) are from the Amazigh backgrounds, mainly from the Rif region. But the artists that contributed... 

Akli D For as long as he can remember, Akli D. was surrounded by music in the little village in Kabylia, Algeria, where he was born. His mother, a traditional folk singer, used to sing him to sleep, and the rest of his family is very musical. He played in his first concert at the age of 13, in the school show of his native village in Kabylia. From then on, he decided never to let go of his guitar, which has become his passport, allowing him to travel... 

Mohamed Choukri Born during a drastic famine in Rif in 1935, Mohamed Choukri migrated with his parents to the cosmopolitan city of Tangiers in 1942 where he lived most of his life. Eventually, he was engaged in a variety of jobs (as a shoeblack, a smuggler, a greengrocer, a male prostitute…etc.) to supplement his tyrannical father’s weak income. In 1955, at the age of twenty, Choukri managed to procure a place at a school in the town of Larache... 

Abdelkarim Al Khattabi When Abdelkarim Al Khattabi passed away on February the 6th in 1963, after decades-long battles against imperialism, he was probably the best-known leader in the world. He is immensely popular as well as powerful and clever. His hallmark is ‘unity in diversity.’ A cosmopolitan vision encompasses the principles of social and economic justice, both within and between nations; non-adversarial decision making at all...