Amazigh (Berbers)

Senior Research Fellow Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman has published a chapter in Volume II of Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa: Berber Movements: Identity, New Issues and New Challenges, which examines the interface between Berber identity and post-2011 events in North Africa.

Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman has published an article on the Amazigh (Berber) people of the Maghrib, in the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.

This study examines the place of the Amazigh movement and communities in the evolving political fortunes of North African states.

Prof. Ofra Bengio and Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman perform a comparative analysis of the role of diaspora communities in the political and cultural activities of the Kurds and the Berbers (Amazigh).

MDC Principal Research Fellow Dr. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman analyzes how the memory of Mohammed bin Abdelkrim al-Khattabi, the leader of a five-year resistance to Spanish and French colonialism in northern Morocco between 1921 and 1926, is utilized in the modern era.

Prof. Bruce Maddy-Weitzman writes in the "Journal of North African Studies" of the contemporary processes of globalization and how they have stimulated and reinforced a specific Berber/Amazigh ethno-political identity.