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For the official recognition of the Amazigh language in the Algerian Constitution
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A travesty of constitutional review just ended after its introduction by the president’s chief of staff.
Except to take the risk to give credit to such usurping process, Algerians, unaffiliated parties to the regime, civil society, intellectuals and activists have no choice but to recall certain fundamental democratic that not be negotiable, to be included in the new text, supposed to represent the social contract of tomorrow.
It is clear that during the debates held by the drums beating CNLTD (National Coordination for Liberties and Democratic Transition), the official status of Tamazight in offering alternative policy it proposes to Algeria tomorrow was evaded.
Yet looking back, based on the statements of each other, demonstrates quite favorable positions.
Those opposed to what is a historical requirement and a democratic imperative, adopt statements characterized by delaying tactics instead of responsible positions. These rearguard maneuvers revolve around spelling, standardization, generalization or no teaching … Although these arguments deserve attention, they can not call into question the legitimacy of the formalization of the Amazigh language .dropoff window
It is, indeed, the rule of unifying law, that all Algerians are calling for that mission comes loaded specialists able to provide scientific solutions, free from any ideological speculation instrument obstruction, contempt and repression.
What did do you not say so far about linguistic pluralism? Two official languages would divide the country. As if Algeria would take a single decision of a kind! Around the world, many countries, north and south, and have long since registered more than one official language in their constitution, some of them even exceeding ten. This fair has done, on the contrary, strengthen national cohesion.
Policy choices unicistes operated for more than fifty years have led the country in a culture of intolerance and led to devastating rejection of each other. A breeding ground of violence resulting in more and more victims and extends high coefficient of acceleration to all regions of the country.
It is time to banish apartheids linguistic, social and political rug deep in the ruling classes.
The formalization of the Amazigh language and its practical application to educational courses, political, economic … be strong markers that symbolize change and the opening of a new era. Without this act of reparation, Algeria will continue to fall. A fall that will spare neither the present generation or those to come!
The future constitution must be characterized by a decisive break in the design of the management of the Algerian city. It should make the Algerians linguistic, historical and cultural heritage in their globalities.
The ball is in the court decision makers if they want to preserve Algeria chaos that its ideological reference models, societal and religious (USSR, Yugoslavia and the Middle East …) cruelly suffer today.
The signatories of this text are backgrounds and various militant course. However, they share the total conviction that the destiny of the social democratic and pluralist Algeria, beyond that of North Africa can not be achieved without the recognition and sincere and effective management of Amazigh substrate based history, experience and genius of the nation.
Tizi-Ouzou, 15 October 2014.
Morocco lifts the ban on Amazigh names
Friday 21 March 2014 – 00:00
Larbi Arbaoui
Larbi Arbaoui
Dedicated free-lance journalist with three years of experience as a news correspondent, translator, and editor. Larbi has been working as a journalist, reporting and conducting interviews for more than two years for international on-line publication …
Taroudant, Morocco- The High Commission of the Civil Registry confirmed on Monday the freedom of Moroccans to choose the names of their children, provided the names do not breach morality or public order, without distinction between Arabic, Amazigh, Hassani, or Hebrew names, and in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to civil status.
According to the Maghreb Arab Press, the procedure of choosing names was confirmed at a meeting on January 23, 2014 of the High Commission of the Civil Registry, chaired by Abdelhaq Lamrini, historiographer of the Kingdom, spokesman of the Royal Palace, and President of the High Commission of the Civil Registry.
The meeting also focused on the examination of complaints filed previously against the refusal of some Amazigh names by the offices of civil status, according to the same source.
Officers of civil status are also required to demonstrate a “maximum flexibility in the processing of applications submitted to them and ensure to provide all facilities to the citizens, the same source added.”
The High Commission of the Civil Registry called on the officers of the civil status to withdraw the lists of names published under the old law and to comply with the provisions of the circular of the Ministry of the Interior No. D3220, published April 9, 2010, on the choice of names.
Anir, Sifaw, Tifawt, Thiyya, and Bahac are some of the many Amazigh names that had been unauthorized in Morocco.
The Amazigh families have been denied the right to name their children some Amazigh names since 1996, when a circular was sent to Moroccan civil status registry offices banning Amazigh names.
Since then, activists have led a fierce campaign against what they call a “racist and discriminatory law” targeting Amazighs, and Amazigh associations have been putting pressure on Moroccan authority to recognize Amazigh names.
Morocco: bullies speak Amazigh
Morocco: bullies speak Amazigh (12/25/08 Le Soir [MB])
Men Chakib Benmousa speak Amazigh soon. An agreement was signed to that effect Tuesday by the Department of the Interior and IRCAM. The teaching of the Amazigh language does not mean mandatory for these local government officials led to an officer in Amazigh areas. “This is optional,” says Ahmed Assid, researcher and member of the IRCAM. Both parties, the Interior and IRCAM agreed on a general framework of cooperation for “the promotion of culture and the Amazigh language.” The signed agreement mainly teaching the Amazigh language at the Royal Institute of Territorial Administration to allow officials of the Interior Ministry in charge of Legal Affairs to be able to practice it. The goal is to better communicate with citizens mainly speak the Amazigh language. However, says A. Assid, terms of practical application of this agreement are not yet fixed. “The number of hours, the number of beneficiaries or the mode of teaching the language, (that is to say they ‘are the three variants and a unified language) are not yet finalized” says A. Assid. “The integration of the Amazigh language in the public sector has been and remains a priority claim to the Amazigh movement,” says Ahmed Arehmouch, Executive Board member of the Amazigh Network for Citizenship (Azetta). “This is certainly a step in the way to end this symbolic violence experienced by citizens Amazigh areas, facing the agents of the authority exclusively Arabic,” he added. Only regret what Amazigh activist, “the agreement signed with the Ministry of the Interior has a much more political than practical. Which already limit the fallout. “Ahmed Assid, the convention has several aspects. In addition to teaching the language says this member of the IRCAM, “the legal framework also aims to educate agents of authority to the cultural and linguistic rights of citizens in these areas.” This is the controversy Amazigh names. Issue with which the department is committed Chakib Benmoussa, under the terms of the agreement, to end. The agreement also includes the component related to signaling or transcription in Tifinagh street names or messages of signs in some cities. This is to end conflicts between municipalities and guardianship of the image of those have lived through Agadir and Nador. Note that the Interior Department is one of five departments represented on the board of IRCAM. “But the current does not always going well between the two institutions,” says this member of the IRCAM.
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An officer from the US Embassy puts With Some Amazigh activists and visited Sidi Ifni
An officer from the US Embassy puts With Some Amazigh activists and visited Sidi Ifni (22.12.08 Al Jareeda Al Oula [MB])
Al Jareeda Al Oula HAS Learnt que la political officer in the US Embassy in Rabat David Brown puts HAS Some Amazigh activists Including the deputy of Tiznit in the Parliament and the President of the Municipality Council Abdellatif Ouamou put by the official in Agadir. Même que la source reported about American official Who has-been for three days in Agadir HAS puts Amazigh activists and the public in a café Situated in Hassan II Avenue. He aussi puts the lawyer of the Detainees of Sidi Ifni incidents Before visiting Other areas fixed in His agenda. It l’autre hand, the American official puts Some officers from Agadir Court of Appeal but nothing Was Disclosed about the meeting. Could have been the meeting on the subject of Sidi Ifni incidents since the visit of the American official Was an official visit, the Saami Added source. If the American official cam to Agadir to close the end of Sidi Ifni, is it rational to allow Foreigners to Intervene in national affairs? Wondered même source.
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Supratour. Amazigh Party solidarity with the Saharawi
Supratour. Amazigh Party solidarity with the Sahraoui (16.12.08 Le Soir [MB])
Tan Tan section of the Moroccan Amazigh Democratic Party (PDAM, unrecognized) has secured two Sahrawi students in Agadir died after a collision in the bus station requiring the intervention of the police. We learn that a clash in the bus station requiring the intervention of the police. We learn that one of the two dead has Amazigh origins. For friends of Ahmed Dgharni, SG of the party, the police action was “wild” and that therefore, the responsibility for the accident also their responsibility. “The amazing thing is that the police maintain that this happened between students and they are not a party to the case” can be read on the press release. To recap, the tragedy occurred in a “Supratour” station, while the Sahrawi students in Agadir were preparing to join their family in the Sahara. ”
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Khalid Naciri, Moroccan Minister of Communication: a TV channel in Berber issue in 2009
Khalid Naciri, Moroccan Minister of Communication: a TV channel in Berber issue in 2009 (AFP 12.12.08 [France], Le Monde [France] MAP [MB])
A national television channel in Amazigh (Berber) will begin issuing in the first nine months of 2009, said Friday the Moroccan Minister of Communication Khalid Naciri. “This string, whose launch was planned in 2007, finally will come in the next nine months,” he assured. He said he signed Friday in Rabat an amendment to the contract for the birth of the “national TV channel Amazigh,” which will be the first of its kind in North Africa. The creation of this new channel will require the Moroccan government for an investment of 50 million dirhams (4.5 million euros) over four years. Explaining the delay in the implementation of this project, the minister said that the creation of a national chain Berber “is not an easy task.” “The creation of a large generalist channel in Berber takes effort and a lot of expertise, the minister said. We need to train journalists create a dense storage and produce a lot of emissions including magazines, varieties and games “.dropoff window There is a “political will” to make this project “was born in the best conditions,” said Khalid Naciri, stressing that the Berber language “is a component of the Moroccan identity.” So far, the first chain SNRT (National Radio and Television Company) and 2M television (public, too) broadcast daily at mid-day a newsletter in the Amazigh language, in addition to shows, songs and commercials. The national radio emits turn daily programs in Berber. Recently, the Moroccan Association for Cultural Exchange (Amazigh) had found insufficient the antenna length devoted to Berber language programs on both public television. Some Berber Amazigh associations claim that is recognized as a national language in Morocco, alongside Arabic.
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Morocco: walking the Amazigh people to its release
Morocco: walking the Amazigh people to its release (07.12.08 Ciao Bella [France]) *
The recognition of the Amazigh as the foundation of the national identity, value-free prioritizing which makes Amazigh racial superiority, theological and metaphysical Arabic and the Arabs is the only perspective that can guarantee stability and social peace. The hegemony formalized Arabism and the Arab brings nothing good nor again confirms the divorce between Amazigh and Arabist power. Ideological and political patching give the impression of déjà vu. The idealistic vision and a finalist as “nationalitarisme” gave in Morocco has been shattered. It is just the mirror image of colonial discourse; his enemy is internal: Amazigh and custodians whose only physical existence annoys and irritates. To his instances, the highest levels of power, excluding Amazigh akin to ethnic cleansing. Cartels families of Arab-Andalusian monopolize all the decisive positions: political and economic, financial, diplomatic and increasingly military and security. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the “hereditary property” of Arab-Andalusian. A wake is built between the seraglio and Amazigh reduced to ustensilaires functions. As disposable products. The recognition of diversity and respect for difference are values foreign to the political culture of “nationalitaristes” Arab-Islamic and the Moroccan State oppressive theocratic slavery and its foundations and its ideological referents. The promoters of totalitarian ideology convey unique thoughts. They think they are the best people that can exist on earth. The rest of humanity will go to hell. Amazigh committed an unpardonable offense: one to exist. Arabization is always designed as an ideological operation of social control. To prevent Amazigh access to decision-making positions and position itself as potential competitors. It emanates from political frameworks that feed and people whose concern is less to solve the cultural issue that the management of speech of the people. It serves to reveal all identity mistakes and all political gabegies. The current government dominated by the Andalusian whose offspring “posh” continued his studies in New York or Paris, is shown. Amazigh battle is a cultural and political battle reveals the deep contradictions in which the Arabist State is enclosed and size of a totalitarian Islamic Arab pernicious ideology that no longer tolerates his challenge. Topical rushing deadlocked, preferring suicide to reality. The Amazigh movement is a ground swell that attacks the evil in its roots. Invisible and confusing, he began a work that gives radical demystification procrastination power a ridiculous image and burlesque. Whimsical. Torture of political detainees Amazigh by spooks helpless and living in a permanent schizophrenia, repression of their families and sit-in of the population solidarity with the students arbitrarily detained in Sidi Said, Errachidia Warzazat (the Moroccan state sent truck auxiliary forces, police and gendarmes M’Semrir, Boumal n Dadess, Sefrou, Tinghir … with material means), confirms the systematic use become violent practices, repressive Pinochet and vexatious that humiliate Amazigh, processed and sold bastards arrears, son of trails, reminding them that the Arab and the Saudi bin Laden gang is the language of God and heaven. They are treated in the foreign enemy agents, plotters … We always expected the revelation of “foreign dark forces” who handle the Berbers; it was total silence! This is not all the same France, Israel or the United States who invented the Berbers! The Amazigh movement matures and gives the power of peaceful strength of lessons and democratic dialogue requirement. Exposing his demagogic speeches and logorrhoea its Arabist parties. He recalled that the myth of Arabism lived. The power represses, it’s the only thing he can do. Does A other choices face an indigenous movement that undermines its legitimacy fictional? The Amazigh movement resists. Decided. Unwavering. Willing to make any sacrifice. Including the supreme sacrifice: death. Because the struggle is motivated by beliefs and universal human values. The values of the future. It resists the face of attempts to destroy the meaning of the Amazigh cultural values against the undermining of the demobilization of its players, the interference of the infiltration, selfishness. He calmly continues his work debunking. He designed the Amazigh language and culture as pivots of the claim, as they constitute a place of recognition and reunion, warm friendliness link, a rallying point, the only disobedient and rebellious margin to the state standardization and grading , false debates, sectarian indoctrination and Summary, the sterile rhetoric and tragic Arabic. The fatal weapon of language and culture enables the release of Amazigh reflexes of fear, silence, taboos and submission. She allowed her learning policy towards fighting lies, manipulation, intimidation, imprisonment and ideological blackmail the state. The return of legitimacy is the official recognition of Morocco as a country of Amazigh and not Arab from the East like a swarm of locusts destroying everything in their path as written by Ibn Khaldun, the official recognition of the Amazigh language by the constitution. It is inconceivable that in a state that calls itself democratic, those who command, speak a foreign language to citizens, namely Arabic. A repulsive language that convey the culture of decadence, contempt and racism. The democratic alternative means formalizing the Amazigh language. The Amazigh language has citizenship in the Amazigh city. Inalienable right that the internal or external colonialism may prescribe. It should benefit from the rule of equal treatment that allows him to make up for lost time and ground. Those who oppose fit against the current of Amazigh and world history that advance. The confrontation began against an Arabist colonial power that attacks all the foundations of the Amazigh colonized society, its benchmarks and grow Amazigh enslavement. Deaf to the repeated calls of history, power is disoriented and opts for violence and repression. Futile strategy against a particular people, fighting for its freedom and liberation. Opportunistic Amazigh still refuse to watch their image in the mirror. They prefer to hide from reality, do not want to accept their situation settled in the land of their ancestors. They reduce the case to a cultural problem they haggle. They cling frantically childish privileges and turn against their culture. The power asphyxiated economically Amazigh Amazigh areas to push the exodus and to Arabization. The tribes are fragmented by a safe cutting. His henchmen behave in conquered territory, they feel superior to us. For him, the mere fact of being Amazigh deserves punishment. He bordélisé Middle Atlas Tamazight to break the family and tramps our society. Law enforcement ubiquitous devices have always managed to give an unassailable printing. They continue their work of sabotage and destruction. The Amazigh movement is found in strengthened in his determination. For securely moored to what constitutes cultural capital and its millenary personality, freed from the alienation of the East, he advances towards a better tomorrow. The dominant ensure sterilization of our elites, to the destruction of those who come nevertheless to arise from corruption and police oppression by abortion and provocation of any popular movement and its brutal and violent crash. By the fact of colonization, the Amazigh people was torn from his past and stopped in its future. Its traditions are dying. Amazigh conscience oppressed must pass, passes through stages before ripping the recognition of its collective identity. The process takes place while identifying both the enemy to the allied forces of social power. The future is ours.
* (By Moha Moukhlis)
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Belcacem Lounes, president of the World Amazigh Congress: permanent mouth blow
Belcacem Lounes, president of the World Amazigh Congress: Standing blow mouth (24.11.08 Morocco’s Gazette [MB])
The Amazigh World Congress is on a flying: the shots are repeated and no two are alike. The President Lounes Belcacem, he wants stoic. Nothing seems to destabilize it. The Manitou! Belcacem Lounes is a very wise man. And wise men, made into chairs of Amazigh Congress. Except that Congress moves to the rhythm of a real growl. The mic mac? There reselling between the guys. Called to meet, Amazigh have had mixed fortunes: between Meknes and Algiers, the choice of venue seating has not been easy, and therefore, everyone went to hers! A real Berezina that led Moroccan jail in Algiers! In addition, to see more closely, it is not supreme confidence since the Congress was decided. Growls, low blow, jail and other shenanigans .All it must have a name. Ask the Lounes, he will tell you that we are not in a coup logic. That’s what he told the reporter Reporter who asked him the question. Apparently, when a coup is permanent, it’s not a coup! So, not state, Lounes is a placid who do not worry: it is good in his shoes globe trotter of the case. Those who put him flea in the ear or talk to him attempted to raid its congress would be naive who know nothing of the height of politics. “Tell me who you judge by worry and I would say that you are”. It is not in safer political axiom, François Mitterrand used to say, the man of “permanent coup d’State”! There coups and rants. There Belkacem Lounèset Abdellah Kadiri who has repeatedly shout from the rooftops, we do not take seriously his dismissal. He, once at the top of his PND is currently cornered in the background of a private citizen who has to resort to regain his power over his people: how do you call so he just had? I think it is a blow permanent mouth. And it is an extraordinary discovery, as only Kadiri can do. But it seems to me that it has been an honor to yell to change the course of things. It is in his own voice and that of electors that are sure to notice that this is a first-class baritone … politics! Furthermore, it is not supreme confidence since the Congress was decided. Growls, low blow, jail and other shenanigans. All this must have a name.
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Mare Nostrum
Mare Nostrum (16-22.11.08 Jeune Afrique [International])
Thirty-eight-year reign, King Hassan II has made no official visit to the north of Morocco. The Rif Mountains, Tangier and the Mediterranean coast were kept out of development that knew the rest of the country. Since his accession to the throne in 1999, Mohammed VI wanted to correct this oversight and take advantage of the enormous potential of the region. Launched in 2004, the Tanger-Med area is destined to become one of the largest port complexes, industrial and commercial Mediterranean. Tetuan to Ceuta, coast landed several tourism projects, roads and heritage recovery operations. By entering the northern region in the priorities of his reign, Mohammed VI addresses the economic, political and security imperatives. But to reiterate Morocco’s membership to the Mediterranean world also has a symbolic significance. Because before being a sea, the Mediterranean is a myth, a melting pot of cultures and values for which people clashed or together. Turn to her is enter the kingdom in inheritance millennium Mare Nostrum and reject the idea of a possible conflict between riparian civilizations. This is also in Tangier that Nicolas Sarkozy launched in October 2007, the Union for the Mediterranean, expressing his ambition to bring the riparian countries around “a shared space, a common good everyone must learn to consider collectively “and not based on individual interests. The Romans already, Mare Nostrum was one horizon to reach more than a reality. Today, the realization of this ideal is more than ever a necessity. For the sea is the dam and the door remains what Gibraltar for many southerners firmly closed. Economic disparities continue to widen. Undermined by infighting, the South fail to bring about a genuine cooperation. In his speech on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Green March, November 6, King Mohammed VI lamented the “stubborn refusal” expressed by Algeria face “to all the efforts made by Morocco” to reopen the borders , closed since 1994. the king called “the logic of history and geography,” but also the commitment to “the loyalty and neighborly ties,” calling for the normalization of ties with the brotherly country. A mock trial for Algeria, the Interior Minister Noureddine Zerhouni, considered that no one can blame his country “balkanize the Maghreb.” The persistence of this litigation, where they place the blame, is evidence that the horizon is still far away.
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Moroccan Berbers demand autonomy
Moroccan Berbers demand autonomy (15.11.08 Al-Quds Al-Arabi [International])
In response to a speech by Morocco’s King Mohammed VI on the map for autonomy for the Western Sahara and the Decentralization of authority in the country, the Movement for Autonomy in the Rif HAS Demanded autonomy aussi for the northern Rif area, and HAS Demanded que la status of the Berber language BE anchored in the constitution.
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Three questions for Ahmed Dgharni SG Amazigh Democratic Party
Three questions for Ahmed Dgharni SG Amazigh Democratic Party: the problem of the Polisario could be solved by the Amazigh (14-20 November 2008 Nichane [MB])
Q: You said that the Sahara conflict will not be resolved unless the Amazigh issue is resolved. What is the connection between them?
A: Just because the five major tribes of the Sahara is Amazigh and “SADR” was designated as an Arab entity that is totally different from the nature of the territory. These are the Algerian Berbers who are able to solve the problem. The ruling party and the Algerian traditional parties can not resolve the conflict because they have inherited the conflict in Morocco. The solution could be through the Amazigh nationalism and not Arab nationalism.
Q: You said that the Amazigh have restored their sense of value in themselves, but the Royal Institute of Amazigh is a state project?
A: The Royal Institute is not the Moroccan state; it is rather a collective of some Amazigh skills and is part of the Amazigh revival; so the Royal Institute of Amazigh is the Moroccan state and vice versa.
Q: Why are you changing your mind?
A: We would like to participate in the resolution of the region’s political problems and those who love us to be in the margin are false political calculations because they think they can solve political problems without the Amazigh and Morocco has not consider the ability of the Amazigh in solving this problem.
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Morocco prohibits non-Islamic names Netherlands
Morocco prohibits non-Islamic names Netherlands (29.01.09 Nisnews [Netherlands])
Moroccans in the Netherlands are not allowed to give their children Berber names anymore. In this way, the Islamic identity is underlined, Trouw newspaper reported yesterday. By far the largest group of Moroccans in the Netherlands are of Berber origin, a mountainous region in the north of Morocco. “They will now be forced to give their children a Moroccan-Islamic name,” according to Trouw. “Morocco wants to secure the Moroccan identity of its citizens in this way, including the Moroccan Dutch.” The Moroccan government in Rabat sent all embassies and consulates abroad a list of names banned this week. First names were already banned. “We forbid Berber names because they conflict with the identity and because they open the door to the spread of the meaning of names,” said Idris Bajdi, a senior official in Morocco, in the newspaper. Labour (PvdA) MP Samira Bouchibti, a Moroccan national (for Moroccan royal decree) like all other Moroccans who have moved or were born in the Netherlands, is angry. “We must get rid of these lists of names and this interference. I want to be able to decide how I called my children. This is discriminatory.” Bouchibti also criticized the party leader Wouter Bos, who said at a meeting of the party PvdA earlier this week that two passports “belong to the Netherlands.” Bouchibti “Bos has not forced dual nationality and therefore does not know what that means in practice.” Bos considers dual citizenship can promote intergation.
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Morocco: remove Amazigh
Morocco: remove the Amazigh (24.01.09 The Huffington Post [USA])
So it seems that Moroccans again. Instead of just let people be who they are, the government is still going about their naming laws. In other words, if you want to give your child an Amazigh (Berber) name, no luck. Moroccan human rights groups have recently proposed a list of Amazigh names to be added to the list approved by Morocco names, however, the proposal was quickly canceled. Alarabiya reported: “The Moroccan civil registry recently rejected 13 Berber names after receiving a list of the Ministry of Interior with specific Berber names considered in violation of the law that determines 99-37 names match for men and women” . Now, realistically, it’s a much smaller percentage of Moroccans who choose to do so, but the fact of the matter is, the Amazigh are the true Moroccan natives. They are spread throughout the country and beyond. they are in urban and rural areas. and the Moroccan government is trying to tell them, naming their children an Amazigh name they give them a name that is “contrary to the Moroccan identity.” What, then, is the Moroccan identity? Is the Arab identity? The official language of Morocco is certainly Arabic (although it could be argued that what is actually spoken in the streets is a distant cousin). Yet it is estimated that 23 of more than 30 million people speak of Morocco one of three Amazigh dialects. And according to sociologist and writer Mohammed Shafiq, up to 80% of Moroccans are Amazigh ethnicity. In Algeria, where the number of people who speak a Berber dialect is significantly lower (about 29%) neighbor, Berber is actually considered a “national language” (but not official). Now I’m not 100% sure, but it seems that in Algeria, there is more freedom to appoint; or Amazigh names are on the list of “approved”, or the law has been removed entirely. In Morocco, however, you must select a name from a list of names (fully Muslims) that reflect “the Moroccan identity.” Curiously, in recent years, new names in fashion were arising in Morocco; Popular names in the Levant, such as “Rime” or popular in Iran as “Nasreen,” have made their way into the Moroccan identity. But try to name your daughter Numidia, and all hell breaks loose. When Morocco Tamazight realize that part of their national identity? Once the languages have died off (another controversial issue is the teaching of Tashelheit, Tamazight and Tarifit)? Once there are no more Tanasts, Shadens or Numidias? Once all Amazigh political parties were banned for good? Or the story of the Amazigh simply be erased?
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Morocco lift the ban on Amazigh names
Friday, March 21, 2014 – 0:00 the
Larbi Arbaoui
Larbi Arbaoui
Dedicated freelance journalist with three years of experience as a news correspondent, translator and editor. Larbi has worked as a journalist, reports and conduct interviews for more than two years of international online publication …
Taroudant, Morocco-The High Commission of Civil Status confirmed Monday Moroccans freedom to choose the names of their children, provided the names have not failed to morality or public order, without distinction between Arab, Amazigh, Hassani, or Hebrew names, and in accordance with the provisions of the law on civil status.
According to the Maghreb Arabe Presse, the procedure for choosing names was confirmed at a meeting Jan. 23, 2014, the High Commission of Civil Status, chaired by Abdelhaq Lamrini, historian of the Kingdom, spokesman for the Royal Palace and President of the High Commission of Civil Status.
The meeting also focused on the investigation of complaints against the earlier refusal of some Amazigh names by the offices of civil status, the source said.
Vital officers are also required to show “maximum flexibility in the processing of applications submitted to them and ensure to provide all the facilities for citizens, the source added.”
The High Commission of Civil Status urged the registrars to withdraw the published lists of names under the old law and comply with the provisions of the circular of the Ministry of Interior No. D3220, published on April 9, 2010, on the choice of names.
Anir, Sifaw, Tifawt, Thiyya and Bahac are some of the many Amazigh names that were unauthorized Morocco.
Amazigh families were deprived of the right to name their children certain names Amazigh since 1996, when a circular was sent to the Moroccan registrars of vital statistics prohibiting Amazigh names.
Since then, activists have waged a fierce campaign against what they call a “racist and discriminatory law” targeting and Amazigh Amazigh associations have lobbied the Moroccan authority to recognize Amazigh names.
Morocco lift the ban on Amazigh names
Friday, March 21, 2014 – 0:00 the
Larbi Arbaoui
Larbi Arbaoui
Dedicated freelance journalist with three years of experience as a news correspondent, translator and editor. Larbi has worked as a journalist, reports and conduct interviews for more than two years of international online publication …
Taroudant, Morocco-The High Commission of Civil Status confirmed Monday Moroccans freedom to choose the names of their children, provided the names have not failed to morality or public order, without distinction between Arab, Amazigh, Hassani, or Hebrew names, and in accordance with the provisions of the law on civil status.
According to the Maghreb Arabe Presse, the procedure for choosing names was confirmed at a meeting Jan. 23, 2014, the High Commission of Civil Status, chaired by Abdelhaq Lamrini, historian of the Kingdom, spokesman for the Royal Palace and President of the High Commission of Civil Status.
The meeting also focused on the investigation of complaints against the earlier refusal of some Amazigh names by the offices of civil status, the source said.
Vital officers are also required to show “maximum flexibility in the processing of applications submitted to them and ensure to provide all the facilities for citizens, the source added.”
The High Commission of Civil Status urged the registrars to withdraw the published lists of names under the old law and comply with the provisions of the circular of the Ministry of Interior No. D3220, published on April 9, 2010, on the choice of names.
Anir, Sifaw, Tifawt, Thiyya and Bahac are some of the many Amazigh names that were unauthorized Morocco.
Amazigh families were deprived of the right to name their children certain names Amazigh since 1996, when a circular was sent to the Moroccan registrars of vital statistics prohibiting Amazigh names.
Since then, activists have waged a fierce campaign against what they call a “racist and discriminatory law” targeting and Amazigh Amazigh associations have lobbied the Moroccan authority to recognize Amazigh names.
