The Berber language is being taught in Moroccan schools for the first time from Monday. The classes will be taught in just a few hundred primary schools to begin with, but the government says the aim ...

RABAT, Morocco — Morocco plans to make the teaching of the Berber language, Amazigh, more widespread in primary schools, the education minister said Thursday, June 1. The decision will affect some 4 ...

PRESIDENT Abdelaziz Bouteflika has announced that the Berber language would become an official language in Algeria alongside Arabic after leaders of the large Berber minority called for a boycott of ...

RABAT: Moroccan lawmakers have unanimously approved a bill that confirms the Berber language’s official status, eight years after it was preliminarily recognized in a new constitution. The new law is ...

Algeria's parliament adopted a package of constitutional reforms Sunday that authorities say will strengthen democracy, but opponents doubt it will bring real change. The reforms are meant to address ...

Youssef Diab drives his truck through the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, singing catchy songs in a local Berber dialect that clings to life despite the dominance of Arabic. The UN has classified Siwi, the ...

The graphic novel Jästi by Ilpo Koskela from Oulu has been published in a Berber language translation in Algeria. The book carries the Berber title Aɣeṛṛabu n ugafa (”The Yacht of the North”) and was ...