Mohammed Sultan Tajouri is of Benghazi origin in Libya. He was born and lives in Manchester, England, home to 10,000 Libyans– the largest population outside Libya. Tajouri is deeply interested in Libyan culture, history, and tradition. Due to many factors, much of these components have been buried beneath the soil in the past 100 years.... Continue Reading →
Medical Tourism and Agriculture Development in Siwa Oasis
Originally from Marsa Matruh, Mahmoud Sedky works in the tourism business based in Siwa Oasis, Egypt. He has extensive experience in planning trips for tourists to visit not only Siwa, but the Nile and many other places. His tourism agency, "Bedouin," partnered with Gazef, has been running for 15 years. People from all around the... Continue Reading →
A New Chapter God-Willing
النصر قريب
Jbel Sheshar
I belong to the Jbel Sheshar tribal confederation, and more specifically I am of the Banu Amrane located in Djellal. The confederation of Jbel Sheshar, composed of Shawi populations, includes the douars Taberga, Aliennas, Oulja-Sheshar and Khanga Sidi Naji. The fractions of the douar which have been rebellious are those of the Wlad Amrane and... Continue Reading →
Linguist and Professor Amina Mettouchi: Endangered Berber Languages
Professor Amina Mettouchi, who holds the Berber Linguistics chair at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, grew up in Azazga, Kabylia until the age of 11 where she left Algeria for France and continued her studies there. She found herself specializing in Berber linguistics, but the path there wasn't always linear. She started off with math and... Continue Reading →
At Yiraten
The At Yiraten (Arabic Banū Raten) is a tribal confederation of Great Kabylia, whose territory is bounded on the North by the Sebaou, in the West by the Wādi Aisi, which separates them from the Banū Yenni, in the South by the district of the Ait Yaḥyā and in the east by that of the At Frawsen, and... Continue Reading →
Archiving Amazigh History and Culture with Madghis Madi
Madghis Madi owns the biggest personal collection of North African artifacts. Madi left Libya when he was fourteen years old and didn't return until 2011. He was there for a year and a half or so until he settled back in Canada. The question of what made him pursue the projects he does now is a... Continue Reading →