Libyan Omar Aboud, from the ancient Amazigh (Berber) tribe, stands inside one of the surviving synagogues in the Berber village of Yafran in western Libya on July 13. For centuries, Jews lived among ...

For centuries the fierce Berber tribes, sons of Ham, have been the scourge of Morocco. Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have ...

The Berbers are descended from the original Caucasoid population of the area but there were once over 700 Berber tribes and clans of various ethnic origins, from Yemenite and Israelite farmers to the ...

“That looks like one of them,” said the grim-faced French colon. From the six Moroccan tribesmen bound together with a single rope, he picked out a shaven-headed Berber, captured by the French Foreign ...

What if we told you that Tunisia has martial arts traditions that date back centuries? While the world often looks to Asia for legendary fighters, Tunisia has quietly built its own warrior legacy ...

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Berber carpeting is actually a type of weave of carpeting and not a type of carpeting. Named after the Berber Tribe of North Africa, the authentic, handwoven berbers are produced in Morocco and other ...

In a recent piece in these pages, I addressed a popular myth: that Ashkenazi Jews are descended from Khazar pagans who converted to Judaism. Though this idea gets a lot of attention, it is fully based ...