Built of earth, stone and palm, the Berber villages decay gracefully, returning themselves to the earth.
An increasingly strident language movement is demanding that the Berber tongue, Tamarzight, be taught in schools.
The Kabyle mother tongue, Berber, is an oral language still in the process of being codified.
Footpaths wind gently upward to the Berber hamlet of Tamatert, wedged snugly between two stern rock faces.
Being of Berber and Arab heritage, as most North Africans are, I take umbrage at that statement.
Along the roads crossing the Rif, the Berber revivalist symbol, resembling an upturned pitchfork, is engraved into trees.
The program also journeys to the southern stretches of Morocco's Atlantic coastline, to the traditional Berber city of Agadir.
Berber ghaitas (oboes) sound at times uncannily Celtic, which may be why the word came to mean bagpipe in Spanish.
But several opposition parties boycotted the poll, as did Berber activists in the Kabylie region, who called a three-day strike.
The opposition includes a rival pair of Islamist parties as well as two bitterly competing Berber-based parties (with 19 seats apiece).
Two Berber women beside the path are securing large bundles of firewood.
Even today local traditions and Siwi, the local Berber language, dominate.
Jebel Aklim is surrounded by Berber villages in valleys guarded by old kasbahs, and there are great views over to the High Atlas to Jebel Siroua.
However, as a fairly recent concession, Algerian television news has been broadcasting a daily edition in one of the three main Berber dialects.
Berber said his expectations are for the economy to slow further into the first half of 2013 thanks in part to the U.S. slowdown.
Today, local artist Souad Attabi makes no secret of the sources for her abstract paintings depicting Berber talismans, hung at the Bab Sebaa Gallery.
The traditional Berber dwelling is a miraculous, integrated and embracing device.
Kabylia, a prosperous region east of the capital whose largely Berber population has begun pressing for autonomy, is now a no-go zone for the federal gendarmerie.
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We circle past a red-painted mosque at the village of Aday and arrive at one of the few Berber houses in the region that is still occupied.
Afoufou was in charge of design, creating 10 Berber-style villas with spacious rooms and suites filled with midcentury flea-market finds and modern pieces she commissioned from local craftsmen.
But Buzakhar said although Libya's Amazigh renaissance did not enjoy the state support exhibited in Morocco and Algeria, he was optimistic the Berber culture would continue to flourish.
It is unlikely that Santander reduce its exposure in Latin America since that would seriously limit their growth prospects, Nomura strategists George Lei and Benito Berber wrote from New York.
If each faction chooses to push its own Islamist, modernist or Berber agenda, parliament will be paralysed, and the authorities will be able to play one off against the other.
In 1995, President Liamine Zeroual, wanting to woo the Kabyle political parties, set up a body attached to the presidency that had the task of introducing Berber teaching in schools.
Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, announced several reforms, including new parliamentary elections, civic and social equality for women, and recognition of the indigenous Berber language as an official state language along with Arabic.
But while upholding Arabic as the official language, the declaration stated that Libya's other languages "shall be deemed national ones" -- falling short of the level of recognition sought by Berber activists.
Only then, they argue, will it be protected from measures such as the new law which makes it an offence for a political party to address a rally in Kabylia in Berber.
Nomura Securities analysts led by Benito Berber in New York said Wednesday in a note to clients that they believe the peso will trade between 12.60 and 12.85 for the rest of 2012.
And, on the other side of their empire, they conquered the Berbers of North Africa but alienated them through the brutalities of the slave trade, which sparked the great Berber rebellion of 741.
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