Just a reminder to my fellow moroccans

Riffians  Chleuhs

 

"French people continue to address the descendants of North African immigrants as foreigners, like guests in our country, completely forgetting that it is also their country, because most of the immigrants’ children are born in France and have French nationality! It can be considered as a logical response to feel less attached to France and to turn to other cultural anchors (community, religion, etc.), when people refuse to consider you as part of the Nation, and if the “heirs” feel that there was no improvement between how France considered their parents or grand-parents and them."

from HLA genes in Arabic-speaking Moroccans: close relatedness to Berbers and Iberians

"As Robert Kaplan once wrote: “Morocco is not an Arab country at all, but a Berber one with a deceptive Arab veneer.” The Amazigh heritage is what makes Morocco and other North African countries unique and different from the Arabs of the Near and Middle East. Furthermore, the Arab nationalism that the national media advocates is the real threat to our national unity, because of the anger and resistance that it creates among millions of Moroccans."
Driss Benmhend

MOROCCO. Marrakech. 1986. Young Berber girls hiding and giggling.

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Near the town of Agadir. A small village built around the lighthouse of the Cap Ghir. The grocery shop. 2000

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MOROCCO. Near Tabant (Ait Bouguemmez). Berber women cutting grass for their cattle fodder. 1988.

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MOROCCO. Oujda. Berber women. 1972.

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