Description
Book SynopsisThe first full-length treatment of the emergence of the modern Berber identity movement in North Africa and the Berber diaspora, the challenges it poses to Moroccan and Algerian authorities and to competing Islamist movements, and their responses to it.
Trade ReviewA rich historical analysis of the origins of Berber identity, the domination of Berbers by successive colonial rules, and the current struggles of Berber movements for recognition by North African states. * The Eurasia Review *
Table of Contents
- Note on Transcription and Terminology
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Entering History
- Chapter One. Origins and Conquests: Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, Arabia
- Chapter Two. The Colonial Era
- Part II. Independence, Marginalization, and Berber Reimagining
- Chapter Three. Morocco and Algeria: State Consolidation and Berber "Otherness"
- Chapter Four. Algerian Strife, Moroccan Homeopathy, and the Emergence of the Amazigh Movement
- Part III. Reentering History in the New Millennium
- Chapter Five. Berber Identity and the International Arena
- Chapter Six. Mohamed VI's Morocco and the Amazigh Movement
- Chapter Seven. Bouteflika's Algeria and Kabyle Alienation
- Conclusion: Whither the State, Whither the Berbers?
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
