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grand-bazaar: 1930s Algeria - Algiers Cafe

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:37:59 +0100

1930s Algeria - Algiers Cafe

gaws: Behind the scenes at the Visvim head office, Hiroki...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 05:36:50 +0100

Behind the scenes at the Visvim head office, Hiroki overseas the formulation of next seasons prices.

In the end, they will settle on “Raise Price”

humansofnewyork: “I never had any family growing up. But I...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:25:02 +0100

humansofnewyork:

“I never had any family growing up. But I still went to school everyday. One day, when I was in eleventh grade, my English teacher came up to me and said: “If you graduate, I’ll adopt you. I’ll show you the life. You’ll do things you never dreamed of.” And he kept his promise. He made it legal and everything. On the day I graduated, he was the only family I had there. My father’s taken me everywhere since then. I’ve done all kinds of things.”

humansofnewyork: “I never had any family growing up. But I...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:35:06 +0100

humansofnewyork:

“I never had any family growing up. But I still went to school everyday. One day, when I was in eleventh grade, my English teacher came up to me and said: “If you graduate, I’ll adopt you. I’ll show you the life. You’ll do things you never dreamed of.” And he kept his promise. He made it legal and everything. On the day I graduated, he was the only family I had there. My father’s taken me everywhere since then. I’ve done all kinds of things.”

kaytralaboom: A footage of me at Toronto, last weekend.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:26:20 +0100

kaytralaboom:

A footage of me at Toronto, last weekend.

dynamicafrica: AFRICANS YOU SHOULD KNOW:Daya Ult Yenfaq...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:41:24 +0100

dynamicafrica:

AFRICANS YOU SHOULD KNOW:Daya Ult Yenfaq Tajrawt

Daya Ult Yenfaq Tajrawt was an Imazighen religious and military leader in the region known then (the 7th century) as Numidia, Algeria today, who dedicated her life to leading Imazighen resistance campaigns against Arab expansion of the Umayyad Dynasty in Numidia. Her Muslim opponents gave her the nickname al-Kāhinat (the priestess soothsayer) for her reputed ability to foresee the future.

Dihyā succeeded Kusaila as the war leader of the Berber tribes in the 680s and opposed the encroaching Arab armies of the Umayyad Dynasty. Hasan ibn al-Nu’man marched from Egypt and captured the major Byzantine city of Carthage and other cities (see Umayyad conquest of North Africa ).

Searching for another enemy to defeat, he was told that the most powerful monarch in North Africa was “the queen of the Berbers” Dihyā, and accordingly marched into Numidia. The armies met near Meskiana in the present-day province of Oum el-Bouaghi, Algeria. She defeated Hasan so soundly that he fled Ifriqiya and holed up in Cyrenaica (Libya) for four or five years.

Realizing that the enemy was too powerful and bound to return, she was said to have embarked on a scorched earth campaign, which had little impact on the mountain and desert tribes, but lost her the crucial support of the sedentary oasis-dwellers. Instead of discouraging the Arab armies, her desperate decision hastened defeat.

Hasan eventually returned and, aided by communications with the captured officer adopted by Dihyā, defeated her at a locality (presumably in present-day Algeria) about which there is some uncertainty. Before the battle, foreseeing the outcome, she sent her two real sons over to the Arab army under the care of the adopted son, and Hasan is said to have given one of them charge of a section of his forces.

According to some accounts, al-Kāhinat died fighting the invaders, sword in hand, a warrior’s death. Other accounts say she committed suicide by swallowing poison rather than be taken by the enemy. This final act occurred in the 690s or 700s, with 702 or 703 given as the most likely year. In that year, she was, according to Ibn Khaldun, 127 years old. This is evidently yet another of the many myths which surround her.

Her sons Bagay and Khanchla, converted, and led the berber army to Iberia.

Another, lesser known account of Dihyā claimed that she had an interest in early studies of desert birds. While this view may or may not be plausible, some evidence has been recovered at the site of her death place, modern day Algeria. Several fragments of early parchment with a painting of a bird on them were found, although there’s no way to conclude the fragments were hers. However, it is possible that she began her interest while in Libya, as the painting was of a Libyan bird species.

Supposedly, she had a passion for ornithology that shaped science and learning in the early Middle East. Today, many look up to her for her great findings and independence.

In later centuries, Dihyā’s legend was used to bolster the claims of Berbers in al-Andalus against Arab claims of ethnic supremacy—in the early modern age, she was used by French colonials, Berber nationalists, Arab Nationalists, North African Jews, North African feminists, and Maghrebi nationalists alike for their own didactic purposes.

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dynamicafrica: Happy Yennayer! Happy Imazighen (Berber) New...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:40:43 +0100

dynamicafrica:

Happy Yennayer! Happy Imazighen (Berber) New Year 2963 to all our Imazighen readers!

dynamicafrica: Black and white portraits of Imazighen (Berber)...

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:36:03 +0100

dynamicafrica:

Black and white portraits of Imazighen (Berber) women. The Imazighen are an indigenous African ethnic group of North Africa, most of whom live in Algeria and Morocco. The word Imazighen is said to mean ‘free people’ and is the name they call themselves, as opposed to ‘Berber’.

The name Berber appeared for the first time after the end of the Roman Empire. The use of the term Berber spread in the period following the arrival of the Vandals during their major invasions. A history by a Roman consul in Africa made the first reference of the term “barbarian” to describe Numidia. Muslim historians, some time after, also mentioned the Berbers.

The English term was introduced in the 19th century, replacing the earlier Barbary, a loan from Arabic. Its ultimate etymological identity with barbarian is uncertain, but the Arabic word has clearly been treated as identical with Latin barbaria, Byzantine Greek βαρβαρία “land of barbarians” since the Middle Ages.

(source)

anewgenderation: Chapter 1.5 senior thesis wordle. Words on...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 08:17:41 +0100

anewgenderation:

Chapter 1.5 senior thesis wordle. Words on Women.

AWESOME

anewgenderation: Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D) Ill, the first...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:48:22 +0100

anewgenderation:

Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D) Ill, the first and only African-American female Senator, argued in 1993 that the Senate should not renew a patent for the Confederate flag. At the time, the legislation had support from Southern Democrats and Republicans, but when Moseley Braun stood up and discussed the violence that the flag communicated her community, she completely reframed America’s understanding of the historical image.

The transcribed section below illustrates how history repeats itself. Elections in 1992 (named the “Year of Woman”) and 2012—both monumental moments for women’s election into Congress—raised similar issues about representation in years where presidential elections coincided with redistricting, opening more seats.

“The reason the Republican Party got run out on a rail this last time was that American people sensed intolerance in that party. African-Americans sensed there was no room for them in that party. Folks who looked at that convention said, “My God, what are these people standing for? This isn’t America. And they turned around and voted for change…. And when they elected Bill Clinton and they elected the rest of us to this chamber one of the changes they were speaking out for was a change that said we’ve got to get past racism, we’ve got to get past sexism, we’ve got to get [past the isms that divide us as Americans…so we can make this country be what it can be in the 21st century…My state’s got less than 12 percent African Americans in it, but the people of Illinois had no problem voting for a candidate who was African-American because they thought they were doing the right thing. Similarly, the state of California sent two, two, women to the United States Senate breaking a gender barrier, as did the state of Washington. Why? Because they felt it was time to get past the barriers that women had no place in the conduct of our business.”

sheilastansbury: Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey - L’Elephant...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:30:48 +0100

sheilastansbury:

Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey - L’Elephant Effervescent (March 14, 2012) (by billtyreerules)

VOTE FOR OBAMA TOMORROW PASS IT ON

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:16:57 +0100

fuckyeahalgeria: The house in Tizi Ouzou where the 1st November...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:19:39 +0100

fuckyeahalgeria:

The house in Tizi Ouzou where the 1st November 1954 declaration founding text for the Algerian state was written and the revolution was planned.

HENNESSY X KIDULT MOLOTOV COCKTAIL YOUR LUXURY IS OUR...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:56:00 +0100

HENNESSY X KIDULT

MOLOTOV COCKTAIL

YOUR LUXURY IS OUR MISERY

DESTROY WHAT DESTROYS YOU

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raptivism: aishaAbove: @AishaFukushima’s keynote at the...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:10:13 +0100

raptivism:

aishaAbove: @AishaFukushima’s keynote at the #MixedRoots Conference, Osaka University (JAPAN)

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Dear Family,

After a rousing weekend at the ミックスルーツ・ジャパン Mixed Roots Japan conference I’m now in Kyoto, getting ready for a concert hosted by the wonderful folks at Kyoto Seika University! Tonight’s event will involve artists holding it down in Kyoto like Seigo and an Open Mic showcasing rap talents from the University! <3 Stay posted!

AISHA!

BENZ BENZ BENZ

Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:25:54 +0200

BENZ BENZ BENZ

XO THE WEEKND - ROLLING STONE XO

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 06:14:06 +0200

XO THE WEEKND - ROLLING STONE XO

Juke/Footwork from Germany

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:36:36 +0200

Juke/Footwork from Germany

Andrea - Another

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:04:00 +0200

Andrea - Another

Kanye West ft Big Sean and jay-Z - Clique ( Prince 85 Clik...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:13:32 +0200

Kanye West ft Big Sean and jay-Z - Clique ( Prince 85 Clik re-edit)