Berber Factor in North Africa: Common Features and Local Peculiarities
https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2017-0-1-42-51
Abstract
The article considers a place and influence of Berber-speaking communities in each of five countries of the North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Mauritania and Tunis.
After gaining the independence, demands are growing in all these states to recognize cultural, regional, and sometimes political peculiarities of Berbers.
The situation in every country is different due to local conditions and background of interactions of Amazigs (self-designation of Berber) with the Arab speaking majority, as well as their participation in political processes.
The author investigates and discuss the impact of the Arab Spring on the rise of self-consciousness, solidarity and consolidation of Amazig minority. It is Berber, often European educated elite which usually expresses and propagates such conceptions and trends.
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Yu. Zinin
MGIMO-University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yuri Zinin, PhD (Cand. of Sci., History) Senior Researcher, Civilizations` Partnership Center Institute for International Studies
119454, 76 Vernadsky Ave., Moscow
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Zinin Yu. Berber Factor in North Africa: Common Features and Local Peculiarities. Journal of International Analytics. 2017;(1):42-51. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.46272/2587-8476-2017-0-1-42-51
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