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 ...

MARRAKECH — In a ground-breaking move in a little known filmmaking community, Morocco’s C Brothers has moved into production on “Aladdin,” the first Berber-language puppet animation film. Directed by ...

Many Libyan Berbers view language revival as the first step towards getting their due in a new national compact. Getting there will take lots of help. The revolution will not be subtitled. Since the ...

JADU, Libya, July 11 (Reuters) - In a packed classroom on a cool evening near the front line in Libya's civil war, 15-year-old Mira is teaching children to spell out the names of animals in the ...

Algerian singer Idir, a leading cultural ambassador of his native Kabylie and its Berber language, died in Paris on Saturday, aged 70, hi... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...

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 ...

As a child, the French filmmaker Kamal Hachkar learned the Berber language from his grandparents in Tinghir, a Berber oasis city east of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. As an adult he discovered that ...